[lovkraft]

Devices associated with the following countries cannot use App Catalog to purchase applications, but they can download free applications:

I'm based in Brazil and created my profile with a Brazilian SIM card (on the Brazilian TIM network). Fyi, I have access to the free apps, but not the paid ones.

[bjbrink]

Can anybody explain the reasoning behind this? I think it's very poor behaviour.

[lovkraft]

Brain-deadness is the only thing that explains these restrictions.

I'm selling my Pre2, tired of having lame options when iPhone and Android offer much more choice.

Bye-bye Palm, we had fun for 15 years.

[NightfishQD]

I was reading this thread on my Veer, so please forgive me if this has been covered already (reading it all on a small screen is not easy).

Anyway, how do the geo restrictions actually work on a device without phone provider, such as the WiFi Touchpad? Will they also be locked to the area where they are first switched on? If I buy a Touchpad from Germany, can I create a new German profile and then use that profile in other parts of the world?

[ajguns]

Just so you know, I'm in Honduras (non supported country)... (do you even know where Honduras is, honestly!) and I CAN SEE PAID AND FREE APPS and YES I CAN PURCHASE APPS (though some of them will not work on my region/carrier). How I did it:
1.- Purchased a Touchpad.
2.- Made a Palm Profile on my new hard earned/bought Touchpad.
3.- Inserted a friend US credit card info.
4.- Made a "Full Erase" on my Pre³ and entered my Touchpad new account.
5.- Voila! Paid apps available!

IIIIII DDDIIIDDD IIITTT MMMYYYYYY WWWWAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVES/WILL LIVE WEBOS!!!

[rwhitby]

Just so you know, I'm in Honduras (non supported country)... (do you even know where Honduras is, honestly!) and I CAN SEE PAID AND FREE APPS and YES I CAN PURCHASE APPS (though some of them will not work on my region/carrier). How I did it:
1.- Purchased a Touchpad.
2.- Made a Palm Profile on my new hard earned/bought Touchpad.
3.- Inserted a friend US credit card info.
4.- Made a "Full Erase" on my Pre³ and entered my Touchpad new account.
5.- Voila! Paid apps available!

IIIIII DDDIIIDDD IIITTT MMMYYYYYY WWWWAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVES/WILL LIVE WEBOS!!!

On the TouchPad, you can select your app catalog country once. This is true no matter what country you are in. As long as you have a credit card for the desired country, there is no issue for the TouchPad as there was for the phones.

-- Rod