If you’ve been looking to grab yourself one of Palm’s webOS-powered devices, now’s your chance. There are great offers for both the Palm Pre and Pixi: Sprint is asking $49.99 (from $99.99) for the Pixi – after $100 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract Best Buy is offering Verizon’s Pixi Plus for free and…
Verizon Wireless showcases webOS apps, too
Verizon Wireless is continuing with its weekly app recommendations. This time, however, they are showcasing webOS applications that run on the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. Without further ado, here’s what they recommend: Business apps: News: AP Mobile, The New York Times, NewsRoom ($4.99) and Engadget. Top Stocks Lite – free real-time stock market…
CDMA Nexus One passes FCC, could be on Verizon soon
It looks like Verizon Wireless customers won’t have to wait long for the Nexus One, as a very similar handset just passed the FCC and it’s rocking dual-band CDMA EVDO radios. While the FCC filing doesn’t specifically out the HTC handset as Google’s “superphone,” its model number, PB99300, is very similar to that of the…
Cheaper iPhone with new controls may come this summer
Apple will be bringing out lower-cost iPhones this June with new, gesture-based controls, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty. In a note to investors, Huberty said research suggests the biggest barrier to iPhone entry for many consumers is the price of hardware, followed by the cost of the service plan. This was the case…
Palm CEO Rubinstein speaks about Project JumpStart and Palm Ambassadors helping boost poor webOS sales
When it rains, it pours. Just ask Palm and the veritable deluge of bad financial juju that they’ve been hit recently. Following on news of Palm’s adjusted financial guidance, which itself rode in on the back of its stock getting downgraded to an “underperform” rating, Palm’s CEO Jon Rubinstein issued a letter to Palm employees,…
Sprint pushing WiMax to more markets
Sprint is moving along with its WiMax deployment and said the 4G service would be in major cities like Boston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. by the end of the year. The third-largest carrier is expected to blanket 120 million people by the end of 2010 and this should give it a sizable…
Leaked: Verizon End of Life List Features BlackBerry Pearl Flip, Storm 9530 and Many More
I’d been hearing rumblings over the past week or so that Verizon could indeed end the storm 9530’s run of touchscreen goodness in the near future. While some were surprised to hear that… I wasn’t. Don’t even get me started on the Storm (or the Storm2 for that matter!), I could go on for days!…
Hi, I’m Marin and I’ll be your editor
I thought it would be prudent to do a proper introduction as I’m the new guy and you’ll be seeing my mug around here a lot. I’m a tech reporter who’s written about mobiles for InformationWeek, CNET, Androinica, Know Your Cell and various other sites. I’ve spent a ton of time thinking about smartphones and…
Palm gets downgraded to ‘underperform’
Remember WebOs? Palm’s ‘revolutionary’ mobile operating system supposed to give the Palm Pre the muscle to take on the iPhone, Blackberry, and the hoards of Android phones now coming out of every direction? Maybe you remember the scary blonde girl with translucent skin that maybe took a few too many Xanax, telling you to buy the Palm Pre?…
FCC seeks more wireless spectrum for mobile broadband data networks
The FCC is looking to free up to 500 megahertz of spectrum for wireless broadband over the next ten years and it will try to buy the airwaves from broadcasters. The move would help avert what FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski calls a “spectrum crisis” that could leave data-hungry mobile devices like the iPhone, Droid, and 3G-enabled…