The Palm Pre has been heralded as the second coming of the iPhone and has had gadget freaks squealing in anticipation of its arrival.  It has arrived and already rumours are flying, shells are being stripped off and all of the wonderful engineering inside is exposed to the world.  It was thought that hiding in the code somewhere was a little something special and Hack A Day has confirmed it.  The Pre can pretend to be an Apple iPod and connect to iTunes.

For a more general review you can drop by Gizmodo.


“The new Palm Pre cellphone has a “media sync” feature which lets the device sync with iTunes in a fashion identical to an iPod. Last week [Jon Lech Johansen] speculated that this was not done in cooperation with Apple and that Palm was spoofing the iPod’s USB controller. This was confirmed today when a tipster sent him a screenshot of what the device reports in both standard and media sync modes. The Palm Pre reports its Product ID as iPod and Vendor ID as Apple with a few other changes. [Jon] notes that it doesn’t change the root USB node, so Apple should be able to block this behavior with an iTunes update. With Palm already pulling tricks like this presumably through software we wonder if this will become a full-on arms race.”

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