Palm’s stock yesterday rose $1.12 to $17.07 fueled by speculation that they were going to be purchased by Nokia. Do you think it could happen? I mean, it would give Nokia a foothold in the American market, but what the hell would Nokia do with webOS? They’re betting on Maemo and Symbian in the long…
WebOS 1.2 Arriving September 24th. with Paid Apps?
Get ready to scratch of that “beta” tag on your Palm Pre’s app market; rumour has it webOS 1.2 (of which we’ve seen bits and pieces) will be arriving next week on the 24th. with paid applications in the market. Up until now it’s been big news whenever the webOS app store offers up a…
CitySourced Allows Mobile Complaint Reporting
I popped my head into the live stream of the TechCrunch 50 to hear about a really great app for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and soon the Palm Pre, that allows you to send geotagged pictures of problems around town (graffiti, potholes, etc.) and send them right to city hall. Cities can view the complaints with…
Forbes.com App Now Available in Palm App Catalog
Developed for the Palm Pre by BlueSwitch, the App Catalog now has a Forbes.com app, joining the iPhone and BlackBerry apps already available. This freebie brings everything you’d expect, including news, analysis and stockmarket updates… but there’s a few cool features built-in as well. There’s a ‘my stocks’ feature that lest you track stocks of…
Leaked: Full Spec Sheet on the Palm Pixi Processor
If you’ve been yearning to learn more about the Palm Pixi chipset, the Qualcomm MSM7627… the folks at PalmInfoCenter have managed to get their hands on a full spec sheet for it. Details below: Two ARM cores integrated into a single chip – a dedicated CPU core and a dedicated modem processor – for an…
UK: Palm Pre to be introduced this week?
Everythingpre.com is reporting, based on a PC Advisor article, that there is going to be an announcement this week regarding the Palm Pre! Now it’s not 100% clear what the specifics of the announcement will be, but it’s quite possible that it could include a date for release of the wonder-device – now how cool…
New Apps in the App Catalog, Including 3rd Party Google Voice App
It’s another good day for the Pre user out there. Another 10 apps have found their way into the App Catalog, including a 3rd party Google Voice App! That’s right, gDial Pro has been accepted along with quite a range of new apps. The other titles approved for inclusion are: Forbes.com Local Concerts Checkers Currency…
Video: Yet Another Palm Pixi First Look
In the latest Palm Pixi hands-on video, FoneFrenzy takes quite a good look at the little sibling of the Palm Pre. Not too much else to say here, this makes for some interesting Friday morning viewing 🙂 The Palm Pixi of course will be coming to Sprint sometime in Q4 of this year… so we’ll…
50% off Palm OS Software at Handmark
Sprint will be launching the Pixi soon, hammering home the webOS’s presence and driving the old Palm OS further into antiquity, but there are still some faithful old-schoolers out there who stick to the original smartphone. For them, Handmark is hosting a half-off sale on all Palm OS software; just use the coupon code PALM50…
Palm Pixi Takes over Palm.com
You may have noticed quite a hub-bub around the internets the other day about the Palm Pixi…. and, with good reason. The Pixi is in effect the ‘mini’ version of the Palm Pre, offering up a 2.63″ multi-touch screen, GPS, 2MP camera, Bluetooth, 8GB of storage, and more. With that in mind, and if you’re…