If you haven’t yet discovered WHERE, you’re missing out on a lot of location-aware fun. WHERE became famous as an iPhone application that serves up local weather, news, entertainment, restaurant reviews, gas prices, and Yellow Pages listings near your current location. Using GPS and cell-tower triangulation, WHERE can determine your position and displays all relevant…
Sprint nixing Palm Pre mail-in rebate?
Mail-in rebates are a hassle. Fiscally, they’re just as good as cash, but the mental overhead in dealing with mail-in rebate forms and whatnot is just more than some people want to deal with. Those people are likely going to be headed to a Best Buy or RadioShack retailer to pick up their Palm Pre,…
Palm Pre coming to Verizon Wireless in 2009!
It looks like the Palm Pre isn’t going to be a Sprint exclusive for very long. The Palm Pre is slated to hit Sprint’s network on June 6 in what could be Palm’s final push to remain a viable smartphone manufacturer in a market they essentially helped create. Palm needs to push the Palm Pre…
AT&T definitely wants the Palm Pre, GSM style
The Palm Pre will launch as the world’s first WebOS smartphone on Sprint’s CDMA network in the US. Unfortunately, the GSM Palm Pre hasn’t been confirmed for anything but European-duty. But AT&T is definitely open to carrying a GSM Palm Pre on its network in the future. The CDMA Palm Pre is likely to be…
Sprint “Can’t afford to sell the Pre to the Wrong Customers”
It looks like this whole “limited supply on launch” situation is a serious problem for Sprint. So serious, in fact, that Sprint’s leaked launch guide contains a page alerting Sprint sales reps to warning that they (Sprint and Palm) “Can’t afford to sell the Pre to the Wrong Customers.” The Palm Pre should, according to…
O2 bringing GSM Palm Pre to UK!
It looks like the UK’s iPhone 3G carrier is preparing to pit the iPhone 3G against the GSM variant of the Palm Pre. According to the Guardian, O2 has inked a deal with Palm that would give the carrier exclusive rights to sell the Palm Pre in the UK. The report mentions that O2 beat…
Palm Pre gesture guide leaked!
If it weren’t for document leaks like this, we’d go crazy waiting for the Palm Pre to launch on Sprint’s network. The Palm Pre gesture guide has just hit the interwebs for a little pre-Pre gesture practice. For those that still don’t know, the Palm Pre sports a touch-sensitive gesture-control area just below the capacitance-based…
Sprint’s Palm Pre Launch Guide Leaked
If you’ve gone through the webOS videos and still crave more, here’s some light reading (PDF lnk) to tide you over until the Palm Pre’s June 6th launch. The guide was just mailed out to Sprint employees to prep them for the big day, and a few flips through the 22-page document reveals some pretty…
Palm Pre Video Tour by Emulator
A great series of videos detailing the ins and outs of the Palm Pre have found their way onto YouTube. We had seen a bunch of stills from the developer emulator, but these videos give us the full tour, including the memo app, calendar using synergy, contacts, phone settings, and a lot more. Just keep…
AT&T Lineup Leaked: 3G BlackBerry Pearl, Palm Eos and Android-Bearing Lancaster Confirmed
A slideshow outlining AT&T’s entire lineup of upcoming handsets has snuck out and is showing some very impressive hardware, notably the BlackBerry Onyx we’ve been seeing so much of lately, but also a few surprises from HTC. HP’s even got a new iPAQ coming. Gasp! Here’s what’s coming: Palm Eos – Palm’s next WebOS handset,…