In what will be one of many Palm Pre launch rumors (I’m sure) to hit us in the weeks to come, BGR has posted a pretty cool sounding rumor regarding the Pre and Best Buy. It seems as though one of their sources has delivered some info putting the Palm Pre at Best Buy (in…
Review: Samsung Instinct S30 for Sprint
Meet the Samsung Instinct S30. Does it look familiar? It should. The Samsung Instinct S30 is infused with the same DNA that made the Samsung Instinct such a block-busting hit last year. Sprint saw sales records fall to the Instinct’s iPhone-fighting appeal, the Instinct burned up Best Buy’s smartphone sales records and Instinct was voted…
Palm Eos Coming to Sprint as Well?
You didn’t think Palm would sell out on Sprint that quickly and get in bed with AT&T right after the Pre, did you? Palm’s rumored Palm EOS handset, code-named “Pixie” or “Castle”, will be their second to use WebOS after the Pre launches presumably sometime around June 7th. Last we heard of Eos, it would…
HTC Snap coming to Sprint as HTC S511
With all this talk about rumored Palm Pre release dates and Android-powered smartphones, we’d almost forgotten about HTC’s consumer-friendly BlackBerry fighter, the HTC Snap. The svelte HTC Snap doesn’t have that “cool” touchscreen cachet, but the comfortable QWERTY keyboard, Pearl-esque trackball and “Inner Circle” smart-email feature make the HTC Snap a messaging handset to watch…
iSuppli: Palm Pre costs $138 in parts
The Palm Pre is expected to help clean up the red-ink in both Palm and Sprint’s accounting books. Time will tell if the Palm Pre and the all-new WebOS can live up to that task. What we do know, however, is that the Palm Pre hardware components cost less than those in the BlackBerry Storm,…
Latest Palm Pre leak points to June 7 launch on Sprint
There’s been a lot of talk about the Palm Pre launching mid-May on Sprint’s network, but keep in mind that it’s still all speculation. Palm and Sprint go only so far as to promise the Palm Pre will launch sometime in the first half of 2009, we really have no idea when the Pre will…
More Palm Pre details emerge
Before you go putting all your faith into this here rumor-basket, just know that this alleged Sprint documentation isn’t in any way confirmed or acknowledged by Sprint. But, at face value, this latest Palm Pre leak does sound plausible. According to a supposed Sprint “insider,” the Palm Pre will support remote data wiping – a…
Clearwire sued for crappy WiMAX service and unfair termination policy
And the problems keep mounting for mobile WiMAX network operator Clearwire. Made famous as Sprint’s WiMAX network partner, Clearwire has run into numerous bumps along the road to a truly nationwide mobile WiMAX wireless network. The latest pothole in Clearwire’s way is a newly filed lawsuit claiming that Clearwire is misrepresenting their WiMAX network’s performance…
Palm Pre pops up in the wild again!
The Palm Pre’s rumored mid-May launch window approaches! And, you know what that means. There’s bound to be some folks out there that just couldn’t help but brag about the Palm Pre in their pockets. Thanks to Twitter-er @lo_tony, the Palm Pre has been spotted in the wild again, this time giving us a glimpse…
Sprint’s Samsung Instinct S30 getting unboxed
Sprint has officially started offering the new-generation Samsung Instinct S30 as a refreshed follow-up to the record-breaking Samsung Instinct, and that means it’s time for a handset unboxing! The Samsung Instinct S30 doesn’t exactly improve on its predecessor’s feature-set as you’d normally expect from a second-gen device, but the Instinct S30 is certainly a sleeker…