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what's up guys John rettinger here and I want to give you a demonstration of the palm pre's app catalog this is akin to the iphones App Store or blackberries app world so let's get started go to launcher and there it is right there app catalog you can also see how long it takes for an application to open on the pre as well so here we are in the app kallik you can see very clearly letting you know that this is still in beta and it's broken up by feature and popular although there are not that many apps in here so the featured and the most popular are really just the same applications mostly you can sort by most recent top-rated lifestyle entertainment news utilities social networking food communications productivity games movies and tag cloud which is really just viewing all applications so there really aren't that many in here right now they're less than 20 and these are all actually web apps so certainly you need to be connected to the internet either via a video or Wi-Fi to really use almost any of these applications so let me go ahead and show you and actually since they are web apps you really can't tell they seem very close to native applications so let's go ahead and download 1 i'll show you how that works so here's the game connect for right to love that and i was a kids let's give that a download so it opens up you can rate it by stars gives you some brief download about it you can click try it or you can go ahead and download it right away so let's go ahead and download and I've connected via Wi-Fi right now so you can see how quick that is it is actually a very very quick download and as its downloading there's an X to the right of that progress bar letting you know you can cancelled as you go loading the application and that's it it is loaded you can tap to launch but let me show you where they show up go ahead and throw that away and they show up really right on that first launch of screen so here we have connect four and see what it looks like that for by Hansbrough you can try a multiplayer features and they really they look just like native applications that you find on the iPhone of the blackberry it actually is really impressive what Tom did here so one really cool app that i downloaded that i want to show you guys something called classic you may have had an old palm device maybe a treo 600 treo 650 maybe even one of the older Palm Pilots but what you're going to see here is going to look very familiar to you it actually emulates the old palm OS if you have a centro that you upgraded to the pre to regardless this is should look very familiar to you and it is a full functioning palm classic operating system you can install applications on here it'll grow really as big as you wanted to limited only by the internal memory on the pre install applications when you plug your prey into your computer you set it up as an external hard drive and you just drag applications right in and then once all automatically if you have a license with an older palm classic device that won't be a problem you can actually transfer the licenses right into this application it's very cool and it works just as well so here's the calculator go back home you got tasks and by the way just seeing this old classic operating system Ruthie claim appreciate how far the pre has come from what was palms really only OS up until yesterday and that's it you've got a virtual d-pad you can control and move along you can have your contacts in here certainly you can't make calls from this but it is just a emulations so we'll close out of that and let's go back to the app catalog and here we are back in the app catalog I'm going to run through and show you everything that's available right now there aren't that aren't that many it also has I'm through here you can see some notifications popping up I just had an email that came through we'll check out the tag club you can see sort of all the different tags that they have which is very similar to what you would find on most web pages or a wordpress page this is kind of one of the ways that you can see that this really is a web operating system there's the app catalog and to go back you just use the gestures and swipe back so let's take a look at the most recent application you can see sort of what's in here and I'll just scroll through them quickly and you can take a look and read them yourself but there's some accuweather there's some Twitter applications there's Fandango there's New York there's some games in here the associated press there's a couple Twitter clients and of course there's the classic application which by the way is free for seven days then you have to buy it and of course what app catalog app store would be complete without a sudoku game that is almost a requirement so we'll go back check out to the top rated apps ebaying them are different really is highlighted by pandora radio which is very cool and go through and see all these most of them are the same there aren't that many apps are released to the SDK that was given to developers was give it a little bit late and for what I understand wasn't as complete as some developers sort of light so hopefully down the road this will open up and they'll be as many apps as are found on other platforms certainly Paul may go the route of Apple when Apple initially only offered SDK for web apps and then opened it up to native applications palm may go that same route with the pre wants to give you guys a demonstration of the palms breeze app catalog hope you enjoyed for exclusive content check me out on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers if you have any pre questions you can go ahead and Smith owes over there I'll see you in the next video bye bye