14 DAY TRIAL // The highly anticipated Palm Pre comes to the market today, so “the wait is over,” as Sprint puts it, which means that those who would like to be among the first to have the handset should rush to the nearest Sprint store in their area and get their unit. In case you don't want to stay in line for the phone, you'll have to wait a little longer before being able to order it from home, for the carrier seems determined not to make the Palm Pre available for online purchase at launch.
One more thing that might not become available when the Pre is released into the wild is the Palm Pre Mojo SDK, which should come soon, according to Palm’s VP of Global Sales Dave Whalen. The Mojo SDK, as many of you might already know, allows developers to create their own applications for Palm Pre's operating system, and, while it has been available only for a reduced number of developers until now, it should become public “very close to launch.”
For the time being, no exact details on when the SDK comes have been unveiled, so it might be today or in the following days, but one thing that is certain is that there are a lot of developers eagerly waiting to start work on their applications. A number of apps that will be included with the Palm Pre at launch have been unveiled already, and there are a “few” more that were stated to come “near launch,” so we might as well just sit tight and see what happens.
What the Mojo SDK brings new to the equation is the fact that it is not based on the traditional hardware programming languages like C++, but comes as a mixture of Web-page-design languages such as CSS and Javascript. Although a novelty, it seems that the SDK's design is meant to offer developers the possibility to quickly speed up work on their applications.
