Hackers Close In on Video Recording on the Palm Pre

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Tech News
• Date: Sep 28,2009

It was clear when the Palm Pre was released that the darn thing should have supported video recording out of the box. It was believed that video recording would arrive soon, but it’s been about four months and no sign of it. A report indicates, however, that hackers have been able to get some decent (though not flawless) results, however.

It would be a good move on the part of Palm to get video recording on the Pre as quickly as possible. Apple was soundly criticized for the missing feature, and rightly so, when they didn’t offer video recording on the iPhone or iPhone 3G. Even now, the feature, available on non-smartphones, is only available on the iPhone 3GS.

Of course, the older iPhones can record video, but only if they have been jailbroken.

Since the Palm Pre can reported record video at up to 720×480 @ 30fps, a native solution for the Pre in the webOS platform would be a great addition.

Hackers have been working on video recording tools, and they’ve been able to achieve some progress, but video is limited to 320×480 comes out by default badly encoded, such that most video players won’t be able to play the file. Still, there are some that reportedly work, including SMPlayer.

So Palm, we know it can be done. Don’t wait as long as Apple did in getting video recording out, will ya?