Download a free application, Buy an application – Palm Pre Plus User Manual

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Chapter 2 : Basics

6

On the app details screen, do any of the following:

Tap a screenshot to see a larger view.

Tap

Reviews

to read all reviews.

Tap

Share

and then tap

Email

or

Text Message

to share info about

an app with a friend.

Tap

Developer Home

to go to the app developer’s home page.

If available, tap

Support

to go to the developer’s product support

page.

Download a free application

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Before you download an app, make sure you have

enough storage space on your phone to fit the app.

Open

Device Info

and look at the

Available

field under

Phone

. If you need to free up memory

for a new app, you can delete an app (see

Manage applications

) or you can

delete some files from your phone (see

Delete files from your phone

).

1

Open

App Catalog

.

2

Find a free app you want (see

Browse applications in App Catalog

).

3

Tap the app name, and then tap

Download for free

.

4

If the application uses Location Services a notification appears (see

Location Services

). Tap

Continue

.

5

To cancel a download, tap on the

Downloading

progress bar.

6

To open a downloaded app, tap

Tap to Launch

. The app also now

appears as an icon on the first page of the Launcher, so you can open it
from the Launcher as well.

You can move to other screens and work in other applications while your
new app downloads in the background. For example, find another app in
App Catalog and start its download while the first download is finishing.

Buy an application

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Before you download an app, make sure you have

enough storage space on your phone to fit the app.

Open

Device Info

and look at the

Available

field under

Phone

. If you need to free up memory

for a new app, you can delete an app (see

Manage applications

) or you can

delete some files from your phone (see

Delete files from your phone

).

1

Open

App Catalog

.

2

Browse to the app you want (see

Browse applications in App Catalog

).

3

Tap the app name, and then tap

Download for [price]

.

4

If the application uses Location Services, a notification appears (see

Location Services

). Tap

Continue

.

5

Do one of the following:

To buy the app: If required, enter your Palm profile password to
authorize the purchase and tap

Continue

.

TIP

To pause a download, tap the

Downloading

progress bar. To resume

downloading, tap

Download paused

.

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