The good folks at PreCentral have managed to get their hands on some pretty darned good pictures of the GSM Palm Pre… from Germany. As you can see in the first pic above, the Pre is strapped-down to a dark, wood-grained display. Looks nice. I fully expect the display area to contain many bookshelves stocked…
Palm Pre to Arrive in Spain October 14th?
Keeping with Palm Pre news, I’ve just received some launch date information for the great folks over in Spain. Rumor has it the Pre will launch for you on October 14th. The Movistar Pre will run anywhere from free up to 219 euros, depending on plan, term, etc. You know the deal. Throw this together…
GSM Palm Pixi Caught on Camera
Remember those new BlackBerry Bold 9700 pics I shared with you not so long ago? The same folks at Tinhte.com came through for us there, and they’re showin’ off some more love this morning too. This time around they’ve got the GSM variant of the Palm Pixi for show. Interestingly enough, the GSM version looks…
Palm Pixi Coming October 20th? Ummmmm, Maybe Not.
It was just the other day we heard rumblings regarding the Palm Pixi launch date. Rumor had it the Pixi would join us in the mobile world on October 20th. A date that seemed so tasty, mostly because it’s not that far away. For some reason I thought the date seemed a little premature… don’t…
Paid apps for Pre coming today?
Late yesterday, PreCentral published a story saying that the Palm Pre users will be blessed with paid apps today. We still haven’t heard anything official from Palm, so you’ll have to check that out for yourself later in the day. We did hear that all your downloads will be tied to your Palm account, meaning…
Palm Pixi Launching October 20?
Palm’s second webOS device, the pared-down Pixi, will supposedly be hitting Best Buy and Sprint stores on October 20th. If you haven’t seen the specs, here’s a quick run-down. 2.63-inch multi-touch screen, 18-bit color, 320×400 resolution GPS 2 megapixel fixed focus camera 3.5 mm headphone jack Bluetooth 2.1 8 GB of storage built in Qualcomm…
Survey: iPhone leads Android in customer satisfaction
Smartphones are becoming the norm in the mobile space. Thanks to the iPhone, consumers are now more aware of smartphones and their capabilities than ever before. And, according to a new survey from CFI Group, the smartphone that sparked the current smartphone boom is still tops in consumers’ minds. The survey gives the iPhone a…
Palm Attempts to Douse Burning Bridge with Developers
Yesterday a prominent open-source developer laid the smack-down on the webOS App Catalog submission process, but much to Palm’s credit, their director of developer relations, Ben Galbraith, has reached out and is attempting to amend the situation. If you aren’t up to speed, open-source veteran Jamie Zawinski berated Palm’s policies on claiming exclusivity to submitted…
Palm Profile server crash miffs Palm Pre owners post-upgrade
Did you upgrade your Palm Pre to webOS 1.2 last night? If you downloaded and applied the webOS 1.2 update, you probably went to bed all warm and fuzzy with the knowledge that your Pre could now download premium webOS apps, direct download from the web, control music from the lock-screen and all that jazz.…
Palm Pre gets homebrew video recording
The list of things the Palm Pre is good at doing is considerable. The Pre’s webOS can multi-task like it’s nobody’s business, it’s great at aggregating your social network contacts and it’ll even allow you to pinch and zoom your way through web-pages. Video recording isn’t officially on that list. Unofficially, however, the Palm Pre…