We just came back from CES 2011 (check out our top picks and the entire coverage) and felt it would be useful to let you know how AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon fared during the Super Bowl of the tech world. I’ll dive into the specifics below but, in general, AT&T was useless, T-Mobile has…
4G LTE handset from Palm spotted on Verizon’s staging website
A 4G LTE version of a Palm webOS handset may have been accidentally outed by Verizon Wireless. Verizon has a staging website, testman.verizonwireless.com, that the carrier uses to test website updates. The changes that appear on this website are usually minor and include such features as handset reviews which appeared on the testman website a…
HP Palm to host “an exciting webOS announcement” on February 9th in California
HP Palm (is that what the firm is now known as?) has started sending out invitations to “an exiting webOS announcement” due to take place on February 9th in San Francisco, California at 10:00 in the morning. The text at the top of the invite reads “Think big. Think small. Think beyond.” which can have…
Verizon Palm Pre 2 spotted at Walmart, prepping for a January launch?
The Verizon Palm Pre 2 was recently spotted in Best Buy’s inventory system and now the elusive handset has made its appearance on Walmart’s wireless website. The listing details the now familiar features of the handset and it is expectedly not available. Availability is an issue that has plagued the Verizon handset since it was…
REVIEW: Palm Pre 2 – HP’s First webOS Phone
The Pre 2 is the first handset Palm has made since they were rescued from complete deterioration by HP and given what you might call a third wind. Despite the fact that webOS brought a lot of cool stuff to the table when it was introduced two years ago, like live thumbnails in multitasking, gesture…
CES 2011 Preview: Tablets, 4G, dual-core
The beginning of a new year means a lot of things: shameful recollections of your New Year’s Eve party, resolutions that never really panned out in the last year, and, of course, the largest consumer electronics show of the year. With CES Las Vegas 2011 kicking off in just a few short days, the IntoMobile…
Palm Pre 2 for Verizon shows up in Best Buy system
HP and Palm announced the Pre 2 way back in October, and die-hard Pre fans have been waiting for the successor with limited patience. Of course, it’s not a tremendous upgrade to the original, but for those looking to hang onto the Pre and yearning for a little more – like a glass screen and…
Palm Pixi 2 Spotted with Front-Facing Camera in Sprint Ad?
This picture of an unannounced Palm Pixi model has been found among Sprint’s marketing materials somewhere the original Pixi should be, only sporting a brand new front-facing camera. There’s nothing to run on specs-wise, but it will need to be running something newer than webOS 2.0, since that software doesn’t have any support for front-facing…
Palm Outs Broadway, Manta, Topaz Codenames in “Sofisticated” Ad Casting Call
HP Palm has issued a casting call for some upcoming commercials showing off the Broadway, Manta, and Topaz devices. As far as we can gather, the Topaz will be Palm’s first webOS tablet, and the Mantaray and Broadway names had been dug up in the in the webOS 2.0 code. Though the Braodway is probably…
VIDEO: Palm Pre 2 Unboxing and Hands-on Impressions
This week, Rogers went live with the Palm Pre 2 for $99.99 on a three-year contract, and since we’re still waiting on a Verizon launch, I thought y’all might like to take a peek at the device. Just to recap, the Palm Pre 2 updates the Pre Plus with a 5 megapixel camera, 1 GHz…