For those of you who have “scored” a Palm Pre and want to run some of our apps under the MotionApps Classic emulator, we have gotten certification for Bonsai, DayNotez, and Project@Hand.
So, what does certification get you? From the MotionApps web site:
The Classic Certified Logo will help you easily identify Palm OS applications that are fully compatible with Classic and run well on a new powerful Palm Pre. Those apps will perform well and provide a familiar user experience. Even better, you can expect to see a significant improvement in the performance as Classic will be faster and more responsive then Treos and Centros were with Palm OS apps.
Keep in mind that Classic still does not support hotsync back to a desktop application, so running our apps on the Classic emulator means running them as “device only” apps. Quanto (one of our few apps that currently has no desktop counterpart anyway) was also tested on Classic (and works fine) but was not made into a certified signed application since there was a limit of 3 apps per developer at the time we submitted our products. Also, although Comet may work in Classic on the Pre, I doubt it would be very useful since the Pre’s call history log is not accessible from the Classic emulator.
The signed (Certified) Palm version of of Bonsai, DayNotez, and Project@hand can be download from the appropriate download pages on our site.
Excellent news! It was exciting to see DayNotez and Bonsai in the demo video they did, and even better to have all three apps officially certified.
Any plans to make cloud versions of your apps and run native on the Pre?
If you could at least find a way to export the data off the Palm Pre onto the desktop (or a cloud app), then I’ll remain a happy customer. If the info can only go one way, that’s better than nothing.
Hey Mike (Ashby) !
“Cloud Sync” is something we are seriously considering adding. Native Pre apps is not something we see in the near future. It just make more sense now today given that Windows Mobile is one of the last remaining platforms that has any semblance of desktop sync remaining. By “Cloud Sync”, we are also considering wifi “Ad Hoc” / “Bonjour” direct syncing to desktop also in some cases.
At this point we still don’t even have access to the Pre SDK (which is really pretty sad) and we want to see what the uptake on Pre sales is. There are other platforms near term that make more sense for us to tackle. While the Palm device seems attractive, it appears it’s business as usual with the Palm/Developer relations.
Mike Urban. Thanks for the comments. Actually, we may have something (Bonsai wise) to announce in the next week or so in regards to “manual syncing” with the desktop. We’ll let you know more as the time approaches.