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An internal list of devices Verizon intends to axe has snuck out, giving us the dates when certain phones are reaching end of life. The BlackBerry Curve 8530 is being taken off the shelves September 16, the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 exits stage left on October 10, and the Palm Pre Plus hits the dusty trail…
That mystery webOS 2.0 device with the codename Roadrunner has been spotted for a second time within the usage stats of another webOS application. Last week, the app logs of a Foursquare app for webOS coughed up a single reference to webOS 2.0 and identified a mystery device with a codename of Roadrunner. This week…
Despite all the hubbub about CEO Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard posted great earnings for its quarter and the company confirmed that it will soon have multiple tablets to compete with the Apple iPad. The company said the Apple iPad may have hurt the sales of some of its laptops but it said a Windows tablet will…
Earlier this month, we had a preview of the upcoming primarily Android smartphones, tablets, and mobile broadband devices slated to hit Verizon Wireless. Today, the remaining devices in the wireless carrier’s portfolio were identified in a another roadmap leak that focuses on the feature phones, BlackBerry handsets, netbooks, and more that are expected to land this…
Astraware has been making games since its Zap 2000 game launched on Palm OS back in 1998. The mobile gaming company has ported its games to almost all major mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry and Android. As early as next week, Astraware may be able to add webOS to this growing list. The…
A quick heads up for Sprint Palm Pre owners rocking webOS 1.4.5. You know how many of us assumed Palm has delayed the rollout of webOS 1.4.5 to fix that well-known bug with PDK applications? Well, we were wrong. The bug which prevents games from saving progress and user data is still present. Before you gather…
Palm may be preparing to bring Universal search and a specialized dock mode to an upcoming version of webOS. The two new options, “Universal Search enabled” and “Dock Enabled”, were included as fields within an application submission form for webOS developers. Though they appeared on the form, the options were set to a default of…
An unknown device with webOS 2.0 and a codename of Roadrunner was spotted in the usage stats for a popular Foursquare app available for the Palm Pre and Pixi. The app developer Zhephree stumbled on a single entry for the unknown Roadrunner device and new column for webOS 2.0 while examining the adoption rate of…
It seems that all the speculation about HP bringing a webOS tablet to market is starting to come to a head, as HP has reportedly told employees that the company will be aiming to launch Palm-pedigree device – codenamed the “Hurricane,” and possibly to be called the PalmPad – in early 2011. Following on HP’s…
Sprint Palm Pre and Pixi owners waiting for webOS 1.4.5 may have cause to rejoice as this latest update is supposedly rolling out to handsets starting today. The news came way of Sprint which updated its Pre and Pixi webOS changelog with version 1.4.5 details and confirmed the August 10th release date. For those keeping track, the…