WikiHow for the Palm Pre is a fantastic offline version of the popular how-to website. It brings over 60,000 useful how-to articles right to your fingertips and works without using 3G or Wi-Fi - which means you get to save precious battery life on your Pre. The articles are all very well formatted and include nicely sized images along with the text. There is no way to zoom in on images, but you can launch every single article in the app directly in the browser with a single tap. And the browser will pull up full resolution images available on the website if you ever need it. You can also share articles via email – the app will automatically launch the email app with a pre formatted “check this out” message for you.

Clicking on a video within an article will launch a new card with the YouTube application on your Pre. Everything is fast and smooth, and browsing articles is a breeze. You can bookmark articles for later perusal or if you find yourself frequently visiting a small set of how-to pieces. The bookmarks are available as a list from the top menu button. You can also increase or decrease the font size through the same menu. Articles do not come with a contents section, so it’s easy to get lost in some of the longer articles (especially since the Pre doesn’t offer a scroll bar to show your relative position in the page). Sadly, there is no search option at present but browsing and discovery is made much easier with the related articles section at the bottom of each article. Overall, this is a nice new app for the Palm Pre that can come in handy in unexpected situations – a must download for every Palm Pre owner.


