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Verizon to Go for the Hero, Forgets Palm Pre

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has been rumored for quite some time now to plan on bringing to its subscribers some of the goodies that are already available with other operators, such as the Palm Pre or the Apple iPhone, but it seems that the company might have just shifted its focus to something else. The HT...

25 September 2009
10:58 GMT

Palm Pre Available for $99.99 on Amazon

Palm's first mobile phone to run under the recently launched webOS platform is now available for purchase on Amazon at a price far lower that the one it sported when first available on the market: $99.99 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement with wireless carrier Sprint, and with no mail-in rebates i...

25 September 2009
09:36 GMT

Palm Flooded with App Catalog Additions

Palm's webOS mobile platform has been around for a few months now, ever since Palm Pre, the first handset to run under it, reached the market on Sprint's airwaves, and it seems that it has become the platform of choice for a wide range of application developers out there. So many of them have submitted thei...

24 September 2009
10:03 GMT

Get Palm Pre from O2 Come October 16

Wireless carrier O2 has announced today that Palm Pre, the first mobile phone that comes to the market running under Palm's webOS platform, will be available for purchase on its airwaves starting with October 16, 2009. The new handset will be put on sale directly via O2, as well as through the Carphone Warehouse...

24 September 2009
03:39 GMT

USB-IF Slaps Palm over Apple iTunes Issue

Apple's iTunes solution is quite popular around the world, and there are many who would love to have their devices able to connect to it, especially Sunyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm when it come to its newly launched Pre smartphone. The two companies have played cat-and-mouse ever since Pre was landed on t...

23 September 2009
05:37 GMT

Sprint's Hero, Silicone Skins for Instinct HD at Best Buy

Wireless carrier Sprint is expected to soon come to the market with two new, attractive handsets for its customers. One of them, the Android-based HTC Hero, should land on October 11, while the other one, Samsung Instinct HD, is expected to be launched as soon as September 27, only one week from now. The former is al...

20 September 2009
09:37 GMT

Palm Says Bye Bye to Windows Mobile

Mobile phone maker Palm has announced recently that it plans on focusing solely on the development of new handsets that are based on its newly launched webOS mobile platform. The operating system, which is currently present on the market only on the company's Palm Pre smartphone, is considered both intuitive and...

18 September 2009
06:33 GMT

Palm Pre Available for Pre-Order in the UK

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm announced a while ago that its webOS powered Pre, already available in the US via wireless carrier Sprint, would soon come to the UK market via O2's airwaves, yet no exact launch date has been unveiled. However, it might not be too long before the UK operator releases the ...

16 September 2009
09:40 GMT

No webOS 1.2 for Palm Pre Yet

Wireless carrier Sprint either got confused and accidentally published on its website the release notes for the next iteration of Palm Pre's operating system, webOS 1.2, or the update needs a few more touches, and the operator decided to pull the changelog off its website, but, one way or the other, it seems tha...

10 September 2009
04:49 GMT

webOS 1.2 Changelog Published on Sprint's Website

It was only a matter of days before Palm and Sprint were expected to officially announce the release of webOS 1.2 into the wild, following the recent leak of the operating system flavor, and, although the official word hasn't been said, Sprint published on its website a changelog showing the novelties within the...

9 September 2009
04:23 GMT

Palm Pixi Comes to Sprint, Pre Costs $149.99

Sunnyvale-based phone maker Palm announced on Tuesday yet another mobile phone powered by its newly released WebOS platform, the Palm Pixi. Following the already popular Palm Pre handset, the Palm Pixi is set to deliver fast and intuitive communication to users, as well as a customizable design. According to Palm, th...

9 September 2009
02:38 GMT

Palm Pre's Price to Be Lowered to $149.99

Palm's latest mobile phone, the Palm Pre, is available in the United States only on the airwaves of wireless carrier Sprint, and through this company's partners, and features at the moment a price tag of $199.99 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement with the operator. While this price doesn'...

7 September 2009
04:07 GMT

Palm's WebOS 1.2 Leaked by Mistake

Palm's Pre smartphone is the only device on the market to run under the company's new WebOS platform, and it seems that its owners might soon have a few reasons to rejoice, as the company is getting ready to release the WebOS 1.2 version to them. There are no details on when it might come, yet the OS has al...

5 September 2009
05:00 GMT

Palm Pre Sales Down, Palm Eos to Come This Year

Palm Pre is one smartphone that saw a lot of fuzz before launch, yet which seems to enjoy a slower adoption on the market than originally predicted. The handset, now available for purchase in the US via wireless carrier Sprint, has been expected to be a smashing hit, yet reports suggest that its sales are actually go...

3 September 2009
06:52 GMT

Palm Pre Already Available for Purchase in Canada

As promised at the beginning of this month, Canadian mobile phone carrier Bell made the highly anticipated Palm Pre smartphone available for purchase in the country a few days ago. Canadian mobile phone users willing to go for the new device will be able to find it available at Bell's stores and its partners all...

31 August 2009
07:08 GMT

China Telecom Might Get the Palm Pre

Mobile phone users in China might soon have the chance to choose between two of the hottest mobile phones available on the market at the moment, namely the Apple iPhone and the Palm Pre. While the former will certainly come towards users in the country starting with the fourth quarter of the ongoing year, the latter ...

31 August 2009
05:05 GMT

New Palm Phones Heading for Sprint and Verizon

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm released its latest device, the Pre, about three months ago on Sprint's airwaves, and it seems that it might be ramping up to launch it with another carrier in the country as well, namely with Verizon. Some recently leaked screenshots of Big Red's inventory show that ...

31 August 2009
03:18 GMT

Palm Pre Sees Three New Apps

Palm Pre mobile phone users have another reason to rejoice, as three new applications have been recently added to the App Catalog, the application portal that includes software solutions developed for the operating system running on their handsets, the Palm webOS. While the list of apps available at the moment for th...

15 August 2009
05:46 GMT

Palm Pre Sends User Data to Palm

It seems that the newly released high-end Palm Pre is set to periodically send end-user data to Palm, as Joey Hess, a Debian developer, points out. According to him, the data sent to the handset maker includes GPS location, what applications are installed on the device, what apps are used and for how long, and crash ...

13 August 2009
04:15 GMT

Grab a Palm Pre for $149 This Weekend Only

Palm's Pre smartphone, currently sold exclusively through the wireless carrier Sprint in the US, and expected to soon hit Canada on Bell, will be available for purchase this weekend at The Shack (or RadioShack, in case you haven't learned already that it plans on changing its name). The offer at the retaile...

7 August 2009
10:42 GMT

Apple Giving Palm a Rough Time over Pre iTunes Access

With the Palm Pre making probably the most worthy iPhone competitor, Apple is (seemingly) beginning to feel the ground shaking beneath its feet. Palm likes to advertise its smartphone as being able to connect to iTunes. Apple, of course, had to have a say in this. The New York Times points out that Palm touts the Pr...

5 August 2009
06:19 GMT

Bell to Launch Palm's Pre on August 27

Canadian wireless carrier Bell announced on Tuesday that it was set to launch the highly anticipated Palm Pre smartphone, which would become available for purchase on its airwaves starting with August 27. At the same time, the operator also announced that, as of August 4, its subscribers were also offered the possibi...

5 August 2009
03:30 GMT

Palm Pre Ads in the Spotlight

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm launched its latest smartphone, the Palm Pre, on the US market only two months ago, yet the fuzz around it has been quite high since the device was first unveiled at the CES show in January. Little was known about when the handset would actually arrive on the shelves until abou...

4 August 2009
10:06 GMT

Palm's preDevCamp to Kick Off on Saturday

Sunnyvale, California-based mobile phone maker Palm is working hard on attracting developers towards the recently launched webOS mobile platform that runs on the company's Palm Pre smartphone. Thus, the latest post on the Palm Developer Network Blog announces that its preDevCamp will open its gates as soon as th...

3 August 2009
09:53 GMT

Palm Pre Sales, in the 25k per Week Area

Wireless carrier Sprint launched the Palm Pre, the company's latest mobile phone and the first one to run under the recently unveiled webOS platform, about two months ago, yet it hasn't announced anything regarding the sales of the device until now. The only thing that Dan Hess, Sprint's CEO, said in t...

31 July 2009
08:16 GMT

New Apps Available for Palm's webOS

Palm Pre mobile phone owners have now a reason to rejoice, as two more applications for the handset's webOS have been added to the App Catalog. The first of them is OpenTable, which enables users to make restaurant reservations at nearby places, while the second one is Fliq Bookmarks, a utility that comes from M...

29 July 2009
11:18 GMT

Palm Pre to See Low Return Rates

According to the latest news on the Internet, the Palm Pre does not register so high return rates as previously rumored. The Street suggests that a number of around 350,000 Pres were sold during the first 7 weeks of availability, and that the return rates for the device are somewhere in the 2-3 percent area, and not ...

25 July 2009
03:15 GMT

WebOS 1.1 Sports Tons of Unreported Features

Only yesterday, Sunnyvale-based Palm released a new iteration of its operating system running on the Palm Pre and also announced the series of changes that had been included in the webOS 1.1, though it seems that only a part of them have been unveiled until now. The company might have focused on showing the major fea...

24 July 2009
06:51 GMT

Purchase a Palm Pre via Sprint TeleSales or Online

Wireless carrier Sprint has finally decided that the Palm Pre can be offered to its customers via more channels than before, and now the mobile phone can be acquired through the operator's website, as well as via TeleSales. While available online, the device still features the $199.99 price tag (after $250 insta...

24 July 2009
04:07 GMT

Palm Unleashes webOS 1.1

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has unveiled to the world the 1.1 version of its webOS operating system, which runs on the newly launched Palm Pre. Expected to drop on July 22, the new flavor of the platform arrived one day later, but the improvements and new features that it includes are meant to make the ow...

24 July 2009
02:21 GMT

Bell Canada to Get the Palm Pre in Two Weeks

The Pre, Palm's high-end device, has already been rumored to get ready for a Canadian launch with the wireless carrier Bell, and the latest reports on the Web show that the release date is getting near. According to an internal document that reached the Internet via MobileSyrup, the mobile phone operator is alre...

21 July 2009
10:34 GMT

Palm Pre's Return Rate, in the 40% Area

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm launched on the market its latest (and probably hottest) device back at the beginning of June on the airwaves of Sprint, yet it hasn't announced any sales figures, nor a return rate for the mobile phone. Even so, some analysts, such as Jesup & Lamont’s Kevin Dede, es...

21 July 2009
05:51 GMT

webOS 1.1 Might Drop on July 22

Sunnyvale-based Palm is reportedly gearing up to come to the market with a new iteration of its webOS, namely with the 1.1 version, which should prove to be a rather major improvement over the already existing variant, webOS 1.04. According to the rumors, the upcoming software flavor is not that far in the future, an...

19 July 2009
07:31 GMT

No More Syncing for Palm Pre with iTunes 8.2.1

The latest iteration of iTunes for Mac and Windows, version 8.2.1, has been released into the wild from Apple's labs, and it comes with support for the company's iPhone or iPod touch that feature the iPhone 3.0 Software Update, as well as with a series of improvements and bug fixes, not to mention support f...

16 July 2009
09:38 GMT

Palm Pre Sales Stabilized at Higher Levels than Before

Wireless carrier Sprint launched on its airwaves the latest mobile phone from the Sunnyvale manufacturer Palm, the Pre, about five weeks ago, and it seems that the sales of the device are finally starting to stabilize at some good levels for the company. For both parties, actually, as Palm and Sprint alike need the P...

15 July 2009
04:04 GMT

Palm's App Catalog Includes Appealing Content

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm launched on June 6, together with Sprint, the US wireless carrier, a new mobile phone, the Palm Pre, along with an application store for the device, the App Catalog. The number of applications that are available through the portal is a rather small one, yet it seems that the st...

14 July 2009
03:53 GMT

Palm's webOS Sees More Homebrew Apps than Official Ones

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm needs to step on the gas a little with the development of applications for its newly launched Palm Pre device. Given the fact that the company has allowed only a small number of developers to access the Mojo SDK for the handset's webOS platform, it seems that the number of...

11 July 2009
03:58 GMT

Palm Pre Set Up for Verizon's Network

The Palm Pre high-end mobile phone was released into the wild more than a month ago, yet analyst estimations and market reports show that the traction it is currently seeing on the market does not match by far the hype it registered before launch. Even so, there are a lot of enthusiasts out there that grabbed their P...

11 July 2009
02:29 GMT

WebOS 1.1 to Come to Palm Pre Soon

A new flavor of Palm Pre's webOS operating system is reported to be on its way to the owners of the newly launched high-end device, namely WebOS 1.1. The new software version, the news says, should come to display with a series of improvements and enhancements, while also including a wide range of new applicatio...

10 July 2009
07:09 GMT

Palm Pre Offers PC-Like Multitasking Experience

Strategy Analytics has recently made public a report that describes the performance of the newly released Palm Pre, called “Mobile Device User Evaluation: Palm Pre.” According to the research firm, the handset can perform very well when it comes to the multitasking functionality it packs, at least this is...

10 July 2009
04:37 GMT

PopCap Games to Come to Palm Pre

It seems that the owners of the recently released Palm Pre smartphone will soon be able to enjoy some attractive games that PopCap intends to develop for the handset. As such, titles like Bejeweled, Zuma or Peggle, to name only some of the games from the company, might soon come to the Palm Pre, which doesn't so...

8 July 2009
10:59 GMT

Palm Pre Officially Comes to Europe via O2 and Movistar

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has announced today that its recently launched high-end mobile phone Palm Pre will come to the market on the old continent. According to the company, the device will be introduced initially in the UK, Ireland and Germany, exclusively via O2, as well as in Spain, via Movistar, a...

7 July 2009
08:26 GMT

O2 UK to Soon Launch Samsung i7500 and Palm Pre

Samsung's i7500 mobile phone, the first device from the South Korean mobile phone maker to come to the market running under Google's Android operating system, has been launched in several markets around the world, and is already available for purchase in Germany via O2. However, it seems that the wireless c...

6 July 2009
08:23 GMT

Palm Pre Comes with Hardware Issues

Palm's Pre mobile phone is the company's flagship model for this year, yet it seems that the handset comes to the market with more problems than one would expect. Not only that the device has to face strong competition from Apple's new iPhone 3GS, but it seems that the quality it features is not the be...

4 July 2009
05:35 GMT

Palm Pre to Be Announced in the UK Next Week

Palm's Pre mobile phone made it to the market about a month ago in the US, via wireless operator Sprint, and now we learn that the Sunnyvale maker might be gearing up to make an official introduction of the handset on the UK market as soon as next month. According to Pocket-lint, Palm is about to make an announc...

2 July 2009
04:47 GMT

Palm Pre GSM Version Caught on Video

Palm Pre has been available on the United States market for more than three weeks now, and the handset seems to attract users on its side, as the latest analyst reports have showed, yet the Sunnyvale mobile phone maker seems to be mum on the GSM version of the device. The US variant, as many of you might already know...

1 July 2009
08:20 GMT

Palm Pre Enjoys Playstation Gaming

It seems that Palm's Pre mobile phone can attract a lot of people after all, although its sales have been easily surpassed by the Apple iPhone 3GS. ZodTTD, one of the popular names on the emulation scene, has managed to come up with a version of psx4all for the newly launched device, making it possible to enjoy ...

1 July 2009
06:06 GMT

Palm Pre Sold in 300k Units, Analyst Says

The highly anticipated Palm Pre was released into the wild about three and a half weeks ago, and previous reports pointed towards a number of around 150,000 units being sold. Although the number seems rather impressive in a way, given the fact that the device comes from a company that barely breathes and knowing that...

30 June 2009
11:04 GMT

Palm Releases webOS Update 1.0.4

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm released into the wild its latest handset, the Palm Pre, only a little more than three weeks ago, yet it already made available the first firmware updates for the device. While one of them, webOS 1.0.2, was released before the handset came to the market, the company launched th...

30 June 2009
03:37 GMT

Palm's Mojo SDK Already Leaked, Screenshots Available

We reported earlier that Palm recently announced that the early access program for developers willing to create applications for the new webOS platform shipping with the company's Palm Pre had been extended and that new developers had been invited to the community. Now, only a few days later, the Mojo SDK has al...

29 June 2009
06:16 GMT


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