Palm Press — App Limit to Go?

Palm PressIt is Thursday and that can only mean it’s time for another Palm Press. Palm Press is our weekly look at the world of Palm. Palm Pre owners have been embracing the new apps appearing in the App Catalog, along with those in the Homebrew App Gallery. There may not always be an app for that, but there are apps for many things, and more appearing every day. Many Pre owners have hit the dreaded app limit, an error that appears when the Pre app memory is full. Palm made a silly decision to install apps on a hidden partition, and once that partition is full no further apps can be installed on the phone. It’s not a big partition, either, and it has irritated many Pre owners. A rumor that the next big WebOS update in November will address the dreaded limit and banish it to the hinterlands. Now that’s a rumor we can live with.

That limit is affecting more Pre owners than ever, with the word from Palm that over 8 million apps have been downloaded since the phone launch. That number is significant, not only because the Pre has only been out for a short while, but also due to the scarcity of apps in the Catalog. It shows that as the number of apps go live in the Catalog, downloads will ramp up quite a bit. The launch of the Pre outside the U.S. will also play a big role in app downloads.

The book Palm Pre for Dummies by Chris Ziegler from Engadget Mobile is now available for those wanting to know everything about the Pre. I had the pleasure of meeting Chris at the Mobilize 09 conference recently, and he’s a nice guy, so buy his book. If you want to, of course. :) There is a Kindle version for the geeks among us.

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