If you’ve been watching the App Catalog on your Palm Pre and asking (in your best Oliver Twist voice) “Please, sir…can I have some Samoa?” then today’s your lucky day. Just in time for tonight’s season premiere of Survivor: Samoa on CBS, Survivor (exclusively on Palm Pre by Sprint from CBS Interactive) is debuting today in the Palm Beta App Catalog. The app brings you full episodes, cast bios and videos, weekly sweepstakes and even a Survivor Fantasy team to help you keep up with the competition and contestants who are bringing their own A-game.
Other apps that can help you survive whatever obstacles might come your way include:
P2GoogleVoice (P2Labs), joining gDialPro as another alternative for managing your Google Voice number for phone calls and text messages from your Palm Pre
- Send My Location for webOS (by Software for Mobile Phones LLC), which lets you send your exact whereabouts via email or text
- P2SnippetS (P2Labs), to copy and store frequently used bits of text to paste into any Palm application
- TipCalc for webOS (JamWam), handy for figuring out how much to tip or splitting the bill
- MediPDA (Alan Teh and Janni Kovacs), a modular medical calculator made up of commonly used calculations and algorithms in medicine
- Hebrew Calendar (Avner Arbel), keeping your calendar up to date on major Jewish holidays.
And if you do find yourself stranded on a remote island with your Palm Pre, you can always kick back with some new game apps, including Junk Software’s Dot Game, three versions of EpicTilt’s PicHunt (with themes for pets, vintage cars, and space exploration), Tom King’s memory- and speed-tester Ditto, Reversi from Rick Boatright, and Chess for webOS and Deadman (a more “explosive” version of Hangman), both by Fusion Creative Studios.
Jon Zilber