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The secret to Palm Pre dev mode lies in the Konami code

by Ross Miller posted Jun 10th 2009 at 12:17AM


We couldn't believe it either, but as it turns out, from the launcher screen of your Pre, simply type in the phrase "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" -- which if you parse with spacing might be more easily recognizable as the infamous Contra / Konami code (look it up) -- and up comes a hidden app called "Developer Mode Enabler." Looks like it was discovered via the leaked ROM from earlier this evening. It's apparently used to connect a Pre to a machine running Palm's Mojo SDK for webOS, and we have confirmed its legitimacy. In fact, if you want proof and you don't have a Pre of your own, head on after the break for a video we put together, just for you.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]


Filed under: Handsets, Palm, webOS

Tags: contra code, ContraCode, konami code, KonamiCode, palm pre, palm webos, PalmPre, PalmWebos, pre, web os, WebOs

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