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Wir berichteten bereits mehrfach über den Kampf zwischen Apple und Palm. Seit der Einführung des Palm Pres mit webOS ist es möglich, das Gerät mit dem Musikprogramm iTunes zu synchronisieren. iTunes erkennt den Palm Pre als iPod und synchronisiert somit wesentlich komfortabler. Apple reagierte und brachte ein Update von iTunes heraus. Als ein Update von Palm den Sync wieder ermöglichte, gab es auch von Seiten Apples neue Updates. Dieser “Kampf” geht nun schon einige Zeit. Bis vor kurzem ging Apple als Gewinner aus diesem Kampf hervor, hatte Palm doch Ärger mit dem USB-Regulierungsforum, da sie sich mit der angekündigten Verwendung von Apple-Vendor-IDs sehr weit aus dem Fenster herausgelehnt und gegen geltende Richtlinien verstoßen haben.

In dem neuen webOS-Update auf Version 1.2.1 wird die Sychronisation jedoch wieder ermöglicht. Was für mögliche Folgen das für Palm haben wird, ist derzeit noch nicht abzusehen. Wir werden die Sache verfolgen und weiter berichten …

Changelog webOS 1.2.1:

webOS 1.2.1

• Version information
• New applications
• Feature changes to existing applications

Version information

• Version: webOS 1.2.1
• Release date: 2 October 2009

New applications

NONE

Feature changes to existing applications

Email

• Resolved an issue where after installing the 1.2.0
  webOS update some customers running Exchange 2007 could no longer
  synchronize with their Exchange account for Email, Calendar, Contacts,
  and Tasks.

System

• Resolves an issue preventing media sync from working
  with latest version of iTunes (9.0.1).
• Media sync now synchronizes photo albums, maintaining the
  album structure in the Photos app.
• Media sync now allows for synchronizing photos without requiring
  the full-resolution originals. This provides faster display of high-quality
  full-screen images and enables users to store more photos on the
  phone.

Web

• Resolved an issue where if a user tried to play streaming
  music or video, the media stream might drop out or have a long delay
  before starting.

Security

This release implements several security fixes, including
the following:

• Addresses a security issue encountered by webkit developers.
  This issue did not impact end users.

Individuals interested in contacting Palm to report suspected
security issues can find more information at palm.com/security .

webOS 1.2.0

• Version information
• New applications
• Feature changes to existing applications

Version information

• Version: webOS 1.2.0
• Release date: 28 September 2009

New applications

NONE

Feature changes to existing applications

Amazon MP3

• Songs can now be purchased from Amazon MP3 over a phone
  network connection. A Wi-Fi connection is no longer required.

App Catalog

• In preparation for e-commerce in the App Catalog, to
  purchase apps, you can enter credit card information by selecting Preferences
  & Accounts from the application menu in App Catalog.
  Credit card information is stored with the Palm profile, not on the
  phone. You can choose whether you need to enter their Palm profile
  password each time you make a purchase, or for the first purchase
  in any four-hour window.
• If you want to reinstall a purchased application you previously
  deleted, you can open App Catalog, search for the application, tap
  the app name, and tap Download again for free.
  You do not need to pay for the application again.
• A new Share button enables you to send
  a link to the app page in an email or text message.You can select
  whether to enter comments anonymously, using your first and last name,
  or using your first initial and last name.
• You must accept an end-user license agreement to purchase
  apps.

Backup

• Web browser bookmarks are now backed up to your Palm
  profile. After a restart or partial/full erase, the bookmark is
  restored in Web when you go to the web page.

Bluetooth

• If you are on the phone, get in a car with a previously
  paired car kit, and turn on the car, a notification appears asking
  whether you want to continue talking directly into the phone, or
  transfer the call to the car kit. Previously, the call was automatically transferred
  to the car kit.
• The types of car kits to which contacts can be transferred
  has been increased. You can transfer contacts to Toyota and Lexus
  car kits.
• You can make a Bluetooth connection to a computer even if
  the computer’s Bluetooth device name field is blank.

Calendar

• On the event details screen, the Map Location application
  menu item is now called Event Location and has two
  submenu options: Show On Map, which displays the location
  in Google Maps, and Get Directions, which provides
  directions from the current location in Google Maps.
• The options for changing a calendar’s display color and choosing
  whether to show or hide a calendar in All Calendars view are now
  accessed by opening the application menu > Preferences
  & Accounts > Calendar View Options,
  or by tapping the Calendar View Options list
  item in the list where you switch between All Calendars and an individual
  calendar.
• If you tap Snooze on a calendar event
  notification, the notification no longer reappears after the event
  end time.
• If a calendar note contains a phone number, you can tap the
  number to dial it.
• In Day view, you can press and hold the orange key/Option and
  tap an event to delete the event. Options displayed include deleting
  just this event or deleting the whole series for recurring events.
• Calendar now recognizes the 7th day of a given month as the
  first Monday/Tuesday/etc. of that month, not the second. If you
  choose a repeat option for an event on the 7th, the list correctly
  shows the option Monthly on 1st [day]. Previously,
  the repeat list for an event on the 7th of the month showed the
  option Monthly on 2nd [day].
• Untimed events included in calendar data migration from your
  desktop now appear on the correct date in Calendar.
• If you create an all-day event and then switch the phone’s
  time zone, the event continues to display correctly.
• When you select a month for a birthday, the month displays
  correctly.
• Responses to meeting invitations are correctly sent back to
  the organizer. If the organizer of an event requests not to receive
  responses, responses are not sent to the organizer.

Clock

• The volume of alarms set in clock matches the ringtone
  volume, not the system sounds volume.

Contacts

• On a contact details screen, a Send Contact option
  is available on the application menu, with options to send the contact
  to a car kit or send it as a vCard attachment to an email or multimedia
  message.
• On a contact details screen, a Copy All option
  is now available on the Edit submenu in the application menu. Selecting
  this option copies the entire contents of the contact entry as plain
  text.
• LinkedIn is now available as an online account in Contacts.
  As with Facebook, a LinkedIn account set up on the phone enables
  you to download contacts from that account. LinkedIn contacts cannot
  be created or edited in Contacts.
• If a contact contains an instant messaging (IM) address, the
  contact is linked to the IM account buddy entry.

Email

• You can search for messages in any email folder simply
  by opening the folder and typing. Search returns any matches found
  in the subject, From, To, or CC field.
• If a message contains an inline image, you can act on the
  image by pressing and holding the orange key/Option and
  tapping the image. For all images, an option appears to share the
  image as an attachment to an email message. If the image is in JPG,
  BMP, or PNG format, a second option appears to copy the image to
  the Photos app.
• Support for paragraph text selection, copy, and paste is now
  available in Email. A yellow highlight appears to indicate paragraph
  selection.
• If you have multiple Exchange accounts, you can now use Exchange
  policies on all these accounts; previously this was restricted to
  one account. Additionally, IT administrators no longer have to deselect
  “allow non-provisionable devices” on the Exchange server in order
  for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync policies to work on the phone.
• If you change synchronization of email in a POP account to Manual,
  the account no longer continues to sync email automatically.
• When addressing a message, searching for a linked contact
  whose contact entry does not contain a complete last name (such
  as John S.) now returns the contact match correctly.
• When you accept a meeting invitation, the response is now
  correctly sent.
• Forwarded messages now correctly display the original message
  text with the formatting maintained.
• When you save an attached file—for example, a Word file attachment
  saved to Doc View—the file appears with the correct name in the
  application.
• An error message appears if you cannot send a message from
  an Exchange account because the account mailbox is full.
• The Email application always enforces EAS security policies—such
  as entering a password—when you try to access your Exchange account
  in Email.

Media Sync

• Media sync now allows for synchronizing photos without
  requiring the full-resolution originals. This provides faster display
  of high-quality full screen images and enables you to store more
  photos on the phone.

Memos

• Tapping text in a memo moves the cursor to the point
  that was tapped.
• When you send a memo using the Email Memo menu
  option, the memo formatting is maintained in the copied memo.

Messaging

• When you are in a conversation with an IM buddy, the
  buddy’s online status and custom message are displayed on the conversation
  screen.
• In Conversations view, a Copy All option is now
  available on the Edit submenu in the application menu. Selecting
  this option copies the entire contents of the conversation as plain
  text.
• When addressing a message, searching for a linked contact
  whose contact entry does not contain a complete last name (such
  as John S.) now returns the contact match correctly.
• If a contact contains an instant messaging (IM) address, the
  contact is linked to the IM account buddy entry.
• You can receive vCard contact entries as part of a multimedia
  message.

Music

• If playback of an audio file is paused or interrupted,
  when you resume playback, playback resumes at the point where it
  was paused. This applies to audio files for which the Genre field
  is defined as podcast, speech, spoken word, netcast, or audiobook
  only.
• You can use music playback controls on the dashboard even
  if the screen is locked.
• If the ringer switch is turned off, music playback is not
  interrupted by an incoming call.

Phone

• You can now turn carrier data services on or off in
  the Phone application by opening the application menu > Preferences > Data
  Usage > tap on/off.
• Default ringtone volume has been increased.
• Adjusting the volume of a call now works even if the screen
  is off. Reducing the volume level to zero sets the call volume to
  zero.
• Contact entries in the call log now show both the phone number
  and type.

Photos

• The Photos app can now display photos in JPG, BMP,
  and PNG format.

Sprint Navigation

• Sprint Navigation now pulls Google contacts from the
  phone, as well as Exchange and Palm profile contacts.

System

• You can open either the application or connection menu
  by dragging down from the upper corner of the phone onto the screen,
  as well as tapping the upper corner of the screen.
• When you press and hold the orange key/Option and
  drag onscreen, the cursor now moves one word at a time instead of
  one character at time in Email, Memos, and other apps. The cursor
  still moves one character at a time in the Web address bar and Messaging
  body text entry field.
• Notifications, including incoming phone calls, now show above
  the onscreen lock icon, so they can be seen when the keyboard is
  locked.
• Notification sounds play softly when you are on a call, regardless
  of the system sounds setting.
• If you copy text from an application and open the Launcher,
  you can paste the text to start a universal search.
• Universal search contact matches include an Add Reminder option
  that allows you to add a reminder to the contact.
• In universal search, pressing the orange key/Option +
  a letter key now searches on the letter key’s alternate character
  (for example, 5 for F), not on the letter key.
• In universal search, you can enter keywords to search for
  applications. For example, entering “addresses” returns Contacts,
  “SMS” returns Messaging, and “pictures” returns Photos.

Tasks

• Tasks that are assigned a category now retain the category
  when they synchronize between the phone and your desktop. Other
  information including start date, status, reminder setting, and
  privacy setting is also retained.
• A new Hide Completed menu option is
  available. If you select this option and mark a task as completed,
  the task disappears from the current view.
• A menu in the upper-right corner of the screen showing all
  tasks enables you to sort tasks by due date or priority. You can
  also manually reorder the tasks.

Web

• The browser now supports downloading files from a web
  page. To download a file, tap the file name.
• The browser now supports paragraph selection, cut, copy, and
  paste on web page text. A yellow highlight appears to indicate paragraph
  selection.
• You can press and hold the orange key/Option and
  tap a link or image. Options displayed include opening the item
  in a new card, sharing the link or image via email, or copying the
  URL. For images in JPG, BMP, or PNG format, an additional option
  to copy the image to the Photo app is displayed.
• If you tap on a text field, the page zooms to a level at which
  it is easy to read the text being entered.
• If you copy text in the address bar or in the body text of
  a web page, a notification appears stating that the text was copied.
• You can accept self-signed certificates through the browser.

Security

This release addresses several security issues with
Palm webOS software.

We would like to thank Townsend Ladd Harris for his help in
identifying some of the issues addressed in this release.

Individuals interested in contacting Palm to report suspected
security issues can find more information at palm.com/security .

Vorhergende Artikel:

• Der Kampf geht weiter: iTunes 9 blockiert Palm Pre
• Palm Pre + iTunes
• Apple kann Palm aussperren
• Palm veröffentlicht Update für den Pre
• WebOS 1.1 (Teil1)

Berichte von anderen Magazinen:

• Apple vs. Palm Pre: iTunes-Synchronisationsstreit eskaliert (macnotes.de)
• iTunes-Krieg geht weiter: Palm Pre wieder ausgesperrt

Verwandte Artikel:

1. WebOS 1.1 (Teil 1)
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3. Palm Pre: wieder kein Sync mit iTunes
4. Der Kampf geht weiter: iTunes 9 blockiert Palm Pre
5. Apple kann Palm aussperren

Wir berichteten bereits mehrfach über den Kampf zwischen Apple und Palm. Seit der Einführung des Palm Pres mit webOS ist es möglich, das Gerät mit dem Musikprogramm iTunes zu synchronisieren....