Paul Cousino from Palm confirmed recently at the D7 event that the Palm Pre, due for release June 6th, will be able to sync with iTunes on the Mac (and PC). Cousino demonstrated on stage that the Pre, and other webOS devices, will show up in iTunes as a “device”, and will be able to sync like a normal iPhone or iPod, except that it will not sync DRM-protected music files. On the mac, it can even pull photos from your iPhoto Library and sync that along as well.
Personally, the one main factor that sets apart the iPhone/iPod from their respective competitors is the ease and seamlessness of iTunes syncing. If the Palm Pre lives up to its hype and its software is well-engineered, its ability to sync with iTunes will be the large icing on the cake. This would assure it be more well-received by the mac community as well; that is that hopefully, not too many will spite it just because it is not an iPhone.
Sprint will carry the Palm Pre at $199.99 after $100 mail-rebate and 2-year contract and will launch on June 6th at Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart stores.
July 19th, 2010 at 7:20 am
I’ve had my Pre due to the fact shortly following launch and am glad to get (by means of this forum) that I can now set a ring tone on incoming text messages and can lookup by way of e-mails and this kind of. Now is there any hope for an upcoming launch through which I can search my calendar? Would make my job much much easier, locating dates of final appointments. No other complaints, except that yesterday I was in and out of Sprint program (not unusual). I feel I used to be roaming, and looked at my calendar. Almost everything in the calendar was 1 hour earlier than what I had input. The clock was 1 hour early as well. I had been scared to death–then, once we got back into Sprint provider once again, every little thing was normalized. Has this happened to everyone else?? Hunting forward to answers, but please keep in mind, I’m no techie and speak English in lieu of technospeak.