It's no secret that I love my Palm Pre, and would classify myself as a "Palm fanboy". I think it's great that Palm keeps one upping Apple by re-enabling iTunes syncing whenever Apple breaks it. What's not so great is the memory issue on the Palm Pre that many Pre owners are beginning to notice as more and more apps are added to the App Catalog.

Impulse buying is part of what makes iTunes and the iTunes App Store a huge success. When you see an app you can just tap it to download. I've never run into a memory issue with any of my iPhones (iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS).

Tonight I purchased my 1st paid app from the Palm App Catalog. While in the App Catalog I noticed an update for Classic was available, so I tapped the update button. I got a "Sorry, Not Enough Memory" message. So I had to delete 5 applications just to download the update. I then attempted to download a free 4:20 Wallpaper app and got to the same message.

This experience is completely frustrating, especially when I have 6.4GB of available memory. Unless Palm fixes this issue Developers will stand a great chance of never getting their app purchased, there's too many hoops to jump through. Who wants to start deleting apps you've purchased in order to get an update to an existing app, download a free app, or more importantly purchase a cool app from the many developers making apps for Palm webOS?

So, please Palm take into consideration that iTunes syncing is a cool feature, but the most important feature should be to expand Palm webOS by allowing us the ability to purchase and download applications for our smartphone.

Labels: palm, palm webos, pre

¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/05/2009 09:43:00 PM