A new year is a time to reflect on our achievements in the past dozen months and to set goals for the coming 12 months. That goes for regular folks and multi-national corporations alike. In the spirit of fixing what’s wrong with their mobile phone businesses this year, our favorite cellphone manufacturers have submitted to…
Palm’s webOS App Catalog celebrates the New Year with 1,000th webOS app!
The iPhone’s AppStore and the Android Market have been growing fast in the past several months. The two mobile application stores boasts tens of thousands of apps for their respective smartphone platforms, offering users everything from games to medical diagnosis tools. The webOS’s App Catalog, on the other hand, has been slow to catch up.…
Two free airline tickets with every Palm Pre purchase from Carphone Warehouse in UK
The Guardian has reported that Carphone Warehouse is now offering two free airline tickets to people that buy a Palm Pre before the end of January. The suggestion therefore is that not many of the devices have been sold, compared to the volumes that were expected – which is a puzzler since every review I’ve…
DOOM Runs on Palm Pre with Hardware Acceleration
You might remember early signs of DOOM running on the Palm Pre back in the summer, but it wasn’t running optimally. Well, with webOS 1.3.5 brought with it some extra OpenGL ES functions, allowing for more robust 3D handling. That in and of itself is good news to developers who had been previously turned…
Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus Coming to Verizon in the New Year?
Yesterday I touched on the rumored ‘Palm Pre Plus‘ which was spotted in the WiFi Certification Database. Rumors have been making the rounds about said device for some time now, due to launch on Verizon in the new year. Well, this morning as I sit here doing my normal rounds, I came across some quick…
Compal to ship 600,000 Palm Pixi phones in Q4 2009
It seems Palm or its carrier partners are not super enthused about the Pixi prospects. The once famous Treo maker has revised its order from Compal Communications, bringing the total number of units ordered from 800,000 to 600,000. The news comes from the Chinese-language Commercial Times, and somehow we believe them. Verizon, which seems as…
Rumored ‘Palm Pre Plus’ Spotted in WiFi Certification Database?
If nothing would make you happier than a Palm Pre or Pixi on Verizon, keep reading. First we heard about some webOS training for Verizon staffers. Next, we learned that said training was most probably conducted on a new model, the Palm Pre Plus. I’m still a little foggy on what will be different about…
Sprint: webOS 1.3.5 for Palm Pre to be available later today
I’m not sure whether this is a typo or not, but Sprint is saying that Palm Pre users will be able to grab the latest (and greatest) version (1.3.5) of the webOS today. I don’t have the Pre, so I can’t check that out myself. Hence, I’m writing to “warn” all the Pre users to…
Verizon Getting Palm Pre Plus?
Last week, we got wind that Verizon was conducting some webOS training, but no word on which handset (the Pixi or the Pre) they were using. As it turns out, neither. Internal inventory is showing a new model called the Palm Pre Plus, with absolutely zero indication of what that “Plus” exactly means (bigger camera?…
Palm Pre Now Available for Free at WirelessWave
For Canadian mobile goers, WirelessWave has been the place to go if you’ve wanted to save a few bucks on the Palm Pre. First they discounted it to $99.95, this it was $49.95, and then they dropped it (not so long ago) to a ridiculous $24.95. Now, they’ve dropped the price again, and me thinks…