Palm Pre phones home
>From Slashdot:
“It turns out the Pre periodically uploads detailed information about the user to Palm, including the names of installed apps, application usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates. This, of course, is without user consent or control. The only way he found to disable the uploads was to modify system files.”
This is very disturbing, and very unfortunate news. Blackberry has always been the “king” of smartphones and accepted for business use just about everywhere. Personally I love my Palm Treo and have been shopping around everywhere looking to upgrade. It was down to the Palm Pre, the Blackberry Curve, and the Blackberry Storm.
I’m actually glad this story broke when it did. Unfortunately, it looks like I’m about to become another Crackberry user.
Shame on you Palm…