Palm sets business users in its sights, writes Al Warmington
According to anonymous tipsters, Palm is gearing up to launch a major update to the Palm Pre’s webOS software. webOS 1.1 is expected to bring in a number of security enhancements and a raft of Exchange Active Sync enhancements. The update is believed to be coming in the 30 days.
Security upgrades are expected to include remote wipes, required PINs, PIN complexity (alphanumeric or numeric), auto-lock after a pre-set number of minutes and auto-wipe following a certain number of failed PIN attempts.
Although it’s not the most thrilling set of tweaks from an average consumer’s perspective, these are the kind of things that corporate IT types clamour for, so it may make it easier to blag one from the company purse – because owning a corking little smartphone will make you almost 13% more productive, y’know.
Other rumours suggest that Palm is also rolling out a selection of new webOS apps. That’s great news for current Pre owners, who are starved of innovative phone applications. Palm is still readying its SDK for mobile developers and the launch has been pushed back till later in the summer, which may leave UK customers a little light on apps when the handset launches over here on O2.
Any new apps to come from the update are likely to be made in-house by Palm, so unfortunately you probably won’t be getting iBeer or Lightsabers.
Link: Palm (via BoyGeniusReport)
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