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This is just a quick little rumor for those of you packing webOS powered devices. Yes, the Palm Pre and Pixi on Sprint could be getting new webOS goodness real soon. At least, that’s the rumor I’ve heard from my buds at PreCentral. Apparently, one of their forum members ‘leprecub’ is a Sprint employee. He…
In many ways, Palm’s acquisition by Hewlett-Packard (HP) is the end of an era because the handset maker was critical in building early demand for smartphones. At these moments, it’s common for some in the industry to wax nostalgically about the accomplishments of the company and that’s exactly what Palm’s ex-CEO Donna Dubinsky did in…
There’s nothing quite like free, so the deals that HP is offering up free Palm Pre and Palm Pixi handsets to new AT&T and Verizon customers is pretty damn good. This is great news for those who wanted just a little piece of Palm after it had officially become a division of HP. What could…
As of today, Palm as we knew it no longer exists and is now part of the company that acquired it – HP. It was only a matter of time, but it seems like only yesterday that the acquisition was announced. In the Official Palm Blog today, Jon Zilber, Online Communications Director at Palm, remarked…
Palm has been sending out e-mails to the webOS developer community to let them know that not only are they waiving the $50/app submission fee to get into the Catalog, they’re refunding all previous fees to their respective developers. At last count, there were 2,000 apps in the catalog, meaning the refunds will cost Palm…
A quick note here for all of the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi users out there. The great team at Mark/Space have been up to their old tricks again, and have updated The Missing Sync for your webOS-powered device. The update brings us up to version 1.2, and the application will now synchronize notes and…
Palm has had the Flash plug-in since webOS was updated to version 1.4 way back in February. Since then, there’s been almost no news on the progress of actually getting it built into the OS. That has Palm announcing today that they don’t know what’s taking Adobe so long in porting Flash 10.1 Player integrated…
It feels like it’s been ages since the Palm Pre was released and webOS first made its debut. The slate-style Pixi that came along was decent, but not great, and the refreshes that came in the “Plus” versions of both weren’t groundbreaking or exciting. Since then, Palm has gone through a lot with layoffs and…
For those of you out there that aren’t really keen on the Android superphones already on or coming to market in the near future – not to mention the new iPhone 4 dropping next week – your best alternative right now might be the Palm Pre Plus from AT&T or Verizon. Powered by the webOS,…
If you ditched your Palm Pre for the EVO 4G and still have the Touchstone charger around, you may be able to some cool, if somewhat impractical, things. Thanks to a neat mod, you can now let your 4G handset use the wireless charger. There aren’t too many details about the actual mod, but it…