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Verizon HP Palm Pre 2 Receives webOS 2.1 Update

HP Palm Pre 2 users rejoice, as the webOS 2.1 is about to be deployed by Verizon in the next few days to all customers who own the smartphone.Reports are in that the update is now being rolled out gradually, so users should be patient if they do no find the update at first glance.Those who are anxious and cannot wait...

24 June 2011
11:18 GMT

HP Pre 3 Due for Release on July 8th in UK

The latest smartphone in the Pre series, the HP Pre 3 has just been tipped for a July 8th release by an UK retailer. It appears that Palm fans who are living in UK will have the chance to get the Pre 3 in about three weeks from now, as Play.com retailer is already taking pre-orders. Those who wish to purchase t...

16 June 2011
10:47 GMT

webOS 1.4.5.1 Update Now Available, No New Features Just Bug Fixes

Rumored almost a year ago, webOS 1.4.5.1 software update has been finally confirmed by HP. Although the handset maker stated that the update is now available for download, few Pre users have been able to pull it on their smartphones. Initially slated for a July 7th 2010 release, the update does not bring any new f...

9 May 2011
04:51 GMT

webOS 2.0 Update for Sprint Palm Pre Surfaces

webOS 2.0, the latest version of palm's mobile operating system, should arrive on older Palm devices in a matter of months, the handset vendor announced officially a while ago. While no official release date for it was delivered, things are on track with the development of the software update, it seems, and a s...

22 December 2010
13:21 GMT

Palm Pre Discontinued at Sprint

Wireless carrier Sprint, the first operator to make the Palm Pre and its webOS platform available for purchase in the United States, has reportedly discontinued the device. As previously reported, the mobile phone carrier has already removed the Palm Pre from its website, and it appears that the company also marked ...

16 November 2010
13:41 GMT

Palm Pre Pulled Off Sprint's and Verizon's Websites

Palm Pre, the first mobile phone that came on the market last year with Palm's webOS mobile operating system on board, is nowhere to be found at US wireless carriers Sprint and Verizon (the Plus version), suggesting that the new Palm Pre 2 handset might make an appearance on their airwaves in the near future.HP...

11 November 2010
03:04 GMT

Palm webOS Gets Astraware Board Games

Recently, mobile games publisher Astraware announced the availability of a new appealing game for handsets running under Palm's webOS operating system, the Astraware Board Games.According to the company, the new Astraware Board Games is the latest title the company added to its offering on the Palm App Catalog,...

6 October 2010
11:09 GMT

Firefox on webOS 1.4.5-Based Pre via PreFox

In case there are some Palm Pre users out there who feel that the web browser in the webOS platform is not the best possible choice, a new solution is available for you to try, dubbed PreFox, and being aimed at bringing Firefox on Palm's handset.According to the browser's developer, PreFox is a mobile Fire...

20 September 2010
03:55 GMT

Telmap Navigator Now Available for Palm Pre and Pre Plus in Europe

After announcing the introduction of Telmap5 together with SFR, in France, Telmap Navigator is now releasing Telmap Navigator for Palm webOS, allowing Telmap's location-based services solution to be accessed on Palm Pre and Palm Pre Plus devices. This is the seventh platform that gets Telmap's main location...

13 September 2010
10:40 GMT

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Arrives at AT&T

Sony Ericsson Vivaz is available for purchase from AT&T carrier starting this weekend, September 5. The Symbian smartphone arrives at the US-based operator a little bit later and will probably go unnoticed with all the Android hype. Still, Sony Ericsson Vivaz has an impressive data sheet and is now offered for a smal...

7 September 2010
05:59 GMT

webOS Tips and Tricks (I)

Palm's latest operating system called webOS had great potential since its launch. Unfortunately, a series of bugs and flaws prevented it to become a successful OS. Even though the smartphones running the webOS already received a series of updates, it seems that it remained “an OS with potential,&rdquo...

31 August 2010
11:01 GMT

Angry Birds Game Lands on Palm Pre

Palm fans will be happy to find that the highly-acclaimed Angry Birds game has been finally introduced on the webOS platform. Recently announced by Rovio, the developer of the game, Angry Birds can be downloaded from the App Catalog.For those out of the loop, Angry Birds is one of the most successful mobile games of ...

25 August 2010
04:42 GMT

Sprint's Palm Pre and Pixi Get WebOS 1.4.5 Update

Sprint carrier uploaded the changelog for a new WebOS update that is already available for Palm Pre and Pixi owners. It seems that for the moment this is the only carrier that offers this software update to its subscribers, as Verizon Wireless and AT&T are still waiting for this to happen.Long awaited by Palm fans, t...

11 August 2010
09:04 GMT

HP Has Finished Palm's Acquisition

Started as a rumor at the beginning of the year, HP has just announced that it has finished the acquisition of Palm at a price of $5.70 per share. It seems the main reason behind the transaction, besides Palm's financial difficulties, would be the webOS platform, which HP sees as having great potential on the mo...

1 July 2010
10:58 GMT

Bell Preps for Legend, Puts Pre Only on 3-Year Contracts

Canadian mobile phone carrier Bell is reportedly getting ready for the launch of a new Android-based handset, namely the HTC Legend, which has been unveiled officially during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. According to the reports, the Legend might land at Bell sometime in the May-June time fram...

10 May 2010
12:44 GMT

Palm Pre Gets Overclocked, Palm Disapproves

Palm Pre users who already upgraded their devices to the latest webOS 1.4 version of the mobile operating system have now the opportunity to push their handsets a little further than before. A major overclock kernel patch is available for the Pre, enabling users to get the CPU inside the phone all the way up to 800M...

29 March 2010
05:46 GMT

Palm Pre Receives Free EA Mobile Games in the UK

Leading provider of mobile games EA Mobile has recently announced, in partnership with Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm, that handset users in the UK who own a Palm Pre device are now able to enjoy three free titles from the company. EA Mobile has made the games available for Palm Pre owners in the UK as a ce...

9 March 2010
10:20 GMT

AT&T Might Get Palm Pre in May

Wireless carrier AT&T already announced at the beginning of the ongoing year that it had a great deal of plans when it came to the smartphones offered to its users during 2010, and it seems that some of them might come to fruition in the following few months. Among these plans, we can count the launch of webOS-based...

11 February 2010
04:59 GMT

Bell Drops Prices for Bold 2, Storm and Palm Pre

Canadian mobile phone carrier Bell has recently dropped the price tag of three of the smartphones available on its offering, including the high end BlackBerry Bold 9700, Blacks Berry Storm 9530 and Palm Pre. The Bold 2 is now available for purchase from the carrier for $50 less than before, while the Storm and Palm ...

25 January 2010
08:39 GMT

Palm Pre and Pixi for AT&T Spotted with webOS 1.3.8

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has kept mum until now when asked about the possibility that its webOS-based handsets might arrive at AT&T; yet, it seems that the carrier might receive these devices in the first half of the ongoing year. We're talking Palm Pre and Palm Pixi here, both of which are said ...

19 January 2010
09:52 GMT

WebOS 1.3.5.2 Brings Bluetooth Tethering to European Pre

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm released only a few days ago a new software update for Palm Pre users across Europe, namely webOS 1.3.5.2, of which you might have heard already. However, while the company provided extended details on what the new operating system version brings forth, it seems that some of t...

13 January 2010
04:52 GMT

Palm Rolls-Out webOS 1.3.5.2 for Europe

Hot on the heels of the webOS 1.3.5.1 update for the North American users of a Palm Pre or Palm Pixi comes another software solution from the Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm, webOS 1.3.5.2, this time around for the European users of a Pre smartphone. A quick look at the release notes for the new platform ver...

12 January 2010
03:34 GMT

Specs of Verizon's Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Leaked

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is expected to announce at the International 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week its plans regarding the launch of Palm handsets running under the webOS platform, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. While there are still no official details on the two phones, a recentl...

7 January 2010
04:38 GMT

WebOS 1.3.5.1 Now Available for Pre Users on Bell

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has recently released the webOS 1.3.5.1 software update for Canadian owners of a Palm Pre on Bell's airwaves. The new software solution comes only a few days after the same firmware version was delivered to Sprint users of a Pre or Pixi phone, and includes all the fe...

6 January 2010
10:52 GMT

Paid Software to Arrive Soon to European Palm App Catalog

European users of a Palm device that runs under the company's webOS platform have now a reason to rejoice, as the Sunnyvale-based handset vendor announced recently via the Palm Developer Network Blog that it would introduce paid apps into the European App Catalog as soon as March 2010 arrives. Palm Pre users in...

4 January 2010
08:58 GMT

WebOS 1.3.5 Arrives on Sprint's Palm Pre

Wireless carrier Sprint posted on its support website not too long ago some release notes of the webOS 1.3.5 software update for the Palm Pre, stating that the firmware is set to arrive on handsets as soon as December 28 arrives and, as that day has come and gone, now users of the smartphone are receiving the new OS...

29 December 2009
02:54 GMT

Palm Pre to See webOS 1.3.5 Today

Palm Pre, one of the nicest smartphones that was launched on the market during the ongoing year, seems set to receive a new software update as soon as today. Sprint, the wireless carrier that has it exclusively available in the United States, says on its support website that December 28, 2009, is the day when WebOS ...

28 December 2009
05:32 GMT

Palm Pre Goes Free at WirelessWave

Palm Pre, the high-end smartphone unveiled by Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm in the beginning of the ongoing year and launched on the market in June on Sprint's airwaves, has been available in Canada for quite some time now, via wireless operator Bell. In case Canadians haven't jumped on the devic...

21 December 2009
12:31 GMT

Verizon to Soon Launch Pre Plus, Motorola Devour

Wireless carrier Verizon has been long rumored to plan the launch of a Palm mobile phone on its airwaves, and it seems that the wait might finally come to an end. According to the latest news around the Internet, the operator already has in its internal system a Palm Pre Plus device, although no details on the devic...

18 December 2009
11:00 GMT

Palm Pre Goes to Mexico via Telcel

Sunyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm, Inc. and wireless carrier Telcel announced on Thursday the upcoming launch of the Palm Pre smartphone in Mexico. According to the duo, starting with November 27, mobile phone users in the country will be able to enjoy the capabilities of the first Palm webOS-based handset, whi...

13 November 2009
13:01 GMT

iTunes Breaks Up with Palm Pre, Again

In the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between Apple and Palm, the company developing the iPhone has again disabled the Palm Pre’s ability to sync with iTunes, by releasing the iTunes 9.0.2 software update. Given that the USB Implementers Forum sided with Apple in September over the two companies’ dispute, Pal...

30 October 2009
09:53 GMT

Bell Lowers Palm Pre's Price Tag to $149.95

Canadian mobile phone operator Bell has just lowered the price tag for the Palm Pre, which has been available in its offering for about two months now, to $149.95 upon the signing of a one-year contract agreement with the Wireless carrier. The new price tag emerged soon after the Palm Pre became available for purchas...

19 October 2009
12:31 GMT

Palm Pre Goes to Verizon in Early 2010

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is already known to plan on adding to its offering the still new Palm Pre smartphone running under the recently released webOS platform, and now it seems that all roads are heading towards the same point: an early 2010 release time frame for the high-end device. Nothing new here,...

19 October 2009
06:55 GMT

Latest Additions to Palm's App Catalog

Sunnyvale mobile phone maker Palm seems determined to offer as many applications as possible to users of a Palm Pre, its available mobile phone that runs under the newly released webOS operating system. Although the number of software solutions available on the company's App Catalog was a reduced one at launch, ...

17 October 2009
05:49 GMT

Palm Pre Available for Free from O2 UK

The high-end webOS-powered Palm Pre smartphone is now available for purchase in the UK via wireless carrier O2. As announced before, O2 has launched the new device on its airwaves for free for those who would opt for a 24-month contract agreement on a £34.26 per month plan, yet users can also opt for an 18-mont...

16 October 2009
10:54 GMT

Palm Pre Already Available from O2 Germany

Palm Pre, the first smartphone to come to the market with Palm's webOS platform on board, is now available for purchase on the European market, via O2 Germany. The new handset that reached the old continent is a GSM version of the US Palm Pre, which sports CDMA connectivity and can be purchased exclusively via S...

13 October 2009
09:37 GMT

Palm Pre, Wanted More than the iPhone in the UK

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm already announced plans to launch its latest smartphone, the Palm Pre, on the European market, and most of you might already know that the device is set to be released on O2's airwaves in the UK on October 16, and it seems that the handset might become one of the most want...

13 October 2009
06:57 GMT

Palm Pre Officially at Telefonica Spain on October 14

Telefonica has announced today that it will carry in Spain the new Palm Pre smartphone running under the webOS platform starting with October 14, only a week from now on. According to the carrier, the price tag for the Pre will range from free to 219 Euros, depending on the price plan customers will opt for. Moreover...

7 October 2009
10:41 GMT

Palm Again Removes iTunes Restrictions via webOS Update (1.2.1)

Palm tricks iTunes into “seeing” the Pre as an Apple iPod by using devices and product numbers reserved for Apple’s hardware, Macworld reveals in a post. Initially blocked by Apple, the ability to sync a Palm device with Apple’s iTunes has been re-enabled with webOS 1.2.1, an update issued las...

5 October 2009
08:55 GMT

Adobe's Flash Player Caught on Video on Palm Pre

Adobe has announced earlier today that its Flash Player 10.1 is set to soon become available on a variety of mobile phones, including Windows Mobile and webOS-based ones, which will see it during the ongoing year, or Symbian and Android, on which the solution is set to come in early 2010. Following Adobe's annou...

5 October 2009
08:19 GMT

Palm Releases WebOS 1.2.1 to Fix iTunes Connectivity

It didn't take too long before Palm came back with a software update for its webOS mobile operating system running on Palm Pre to enable the handset to connect back with Apple's iTunes. Although USB-IF said that Palm should be careful with the way in which it uses Apple's vendor ID to enable the iTunes...

3 October 2009
06:27 GMT

WebOS 1.2.0 Brings Security Fixes

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has released into the wild the webOS 1.2.0 flavor of its latest mobile operating system at the beginning of this week, and, although the new features included with it have been already discussed, it seems that there are some that haven't received the attention they were su...

2 October 2009
04:41 GMT

User Satisfaction Granted with iPhone, Palm Pre and Android

A recently published customer satisfaction study from CFI Group shows that the customer audience is no longer dominated by business users, and that smartphones like Apple’s iPhone, Palm's Pre or those powered by Google's Android OS are the leaders in consumer satisfaction. Moreover, the CFI Group Smar...

1 October 2009
02:31 GMT

Palm Debuts App Catalog Kill Switch in webOS 1.2.0

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm released only two days ago a new firmware upgrade for its Palm Pre handset, namely webOS 1.2.0, and now we learn that one of the novelties included with the new software flavor is an App Catalog 'kill switch'. Basically, this means that Palm will be able to remove app...

30 September 2009
03:47 GMT

O2 on iPhone Exclusivity: We're Proud to Have Had It

O2 UK has decided to provide a comment on the news regarding its losing the exclusivity deal on the iPhone. Starting with Monday, September 28, when Orange UK announced it would soon introduce the Apple iconic device into its offering, and continuing with today's announcement from Vodafone that it would make the...

29 September 2009
10:37 GMT

webOS Mojo SDK v1.2 Available for Download

Palm might have delayed the release of webOS 1.2.0 firmware update for the Palm Pre for about two weeks, yet, as soon as the new OS flavor was out, the mobile phone maker also unleashed the Mojo SDK v1.2 for the platform, as well as a new version of its webOS Doctor, the software solution that helps users to restore ...

29 September 2009
06:23 GMT

WebOS 1.2.0 Finally Unleashed

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm and wireless carrier Sprint have finally decided to unleash into the wild the webOS 1.2.0 firmware update for the Palm Pre smartphone. Leaked about two weeks ago, the update has been pulled rapidly from Palm's website, while its changelog, published by Sprint, has had the ...

29 September 2009
03:43 GMT

Grab a Palm Pre for $79.99 at Walmart

Palm's first webOS-powered mobile phone, the Pre, has been around for only about four months now, yet its price tag has already seen significant drops. Originally launched at $199 on a two-year contract agreement with wireless carrier Sprint, the device is now available for $99 on Amazon and, even lower, for onl...

28 September 2009
03:54 GMT

'Palm Pre Will Come to Us', Verizon Says

Verizon Wireless has not left aside its plans to offer its users the possibility to taste the latest Palm device on the market, the webOS-based Pre. Previous rumors suggested that the carrier might have moved over the Pre, being interested in other high-end handsets, yet it seems that, starting with January 2010, the...

26 September 2009
05:55 GMT

Palm App Catalog Sees 14 New Additions

Palm's App Catalog has welcomed yet a new wave of applications this week, including a series of games and some weather apps. Although the company already admitted to being overwhelmed by the large number of applications that have been submitted to be included in the software portal, it seems that it still manage...

26 September 2009
03:44 GMT


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