Palm Pre Classic emulator demoed on video

by Nilay Patel posted Apr 2nd 2009 at 3:57PM

Longtime Palm fans are gonna want to lock the doors and turn down the lights -- our friends at PhoneScoop just got the first demo of Motion App's Classic Palm OS emulator for the Palm Pre. Palm OS apps can be installed by just dragging the .prc files over the Pre in mass storage mode, and they're run as though they were on an SD card. There's no tethered HotSync, although there's a compatibility mode of some kind and apps will be able to pull data down over the air. Check the video after the break, including a demo of ePocrates, which we know a lot of potential Pre owners are interested in.

Filed under: Handsets, Software, Palm, Palm OS, webOS

Tags: classic, ctia, ctia 2009, Ctia2009, garnet, motion apps, motion computing, MotionApps, MotionComputing, palm, palm os, palm pre, PalmOs, PalmPre, pre, web os, WebOs

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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mr2dxtream @ Apr 2nd 2009 4:36PM

Inail in the apple coffin!!!!

OH yeah and 1RST!! (sorry had to do that )

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Blu-Sam @ Apr 2nd 2009 4:39PM

That's great! I'm able to keep some app I have on my crap Centro. (I miss Treo 700p)

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Mics @ Apr 2nd 2009 5:08PM

Killer app. Thousands of apps available on Day 1? Game over, iPhone.

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Anthony @ Apr 2nd 2009 6:34PM

Yeah- & they all look like 1999.

Back in the game iPhone...

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NickNick @ Apr 2nd 2009 5:18PM

Cool.
I can now run blazer on the pre

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000000 @ Apr 4th 2009 2:28PM

That's good. I hope you're being sarcastic. You can never tell on this site...

Seriously though as outdated as a lot and I mean A LOT of the Palm OS apps look a lot of them are very functional. This is just a super bonus for the Pre. Nice. Make me perk up even a bit more for it. Assuming this "emulator" runs good. Which I have my doubts.