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The previous 12 months have seen the mobile space grow by leaps and bounds as superphones went from being rarities to being fairly commonplace these days, next-generation 4G wireless networks are actually being deployed to a certain extent, and on-the-go video chatting is changing our expectations of what we can do with our smartphones. We…
It has been a wild ride in the mobile world this year, as the pace of innovation has been going along at blistering speeds. Just think, at the beginning of the year, we were still drooling over the Motorola Droid, Microsoft was dead in the water with Windows Mobile, Palm was still puttering along as…
Palm is rumored to be working on a webOS tablet and a recent report out of Engadget suggests the tablet may be codenamed Topaz. Also leaked was a shot of a wireless keyboard accessory for this rumored webOS tablet. The keyboard runs on a pair of AA batteries and will connect to the Palm Topaz…
The Verizon Wireless Palm Pre 2 has been spotted on eBay in a now-cancelled auction. The handset was confirmed by PreCentral to be an actual CDMA Pre 2 with model number, P102EWW. Advertised as being great “for parts”, the Pre 2 has a bad ESN (i.e., it cannot be activated by Verizon) and is missing…
Companies trademark names and purchase domains all the time. Whether or not they use them for a final consumer product is another question all together, but let’s assume for a minute that the 3 products HP trademarked last week, the Gyst, Myte, and Veer, are actual devices. Can you say Palm webOS product family? It’s…
After his on-stage appearance at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Jon Rubinstein sat down with John Paczkowski and talked further about the future of webOS. In this second interview, Rubinstein confirmed that webOS will support both LTE and HSDPA+ in the future. I am very excited to [be] getting to LTE and HSDPA+ (two…
Palm is planning for a big 2011 and is expected to deliver several new handsets and a tablet. According to analyst Keith Bachman of BMO Capital Markets, this webOS tablet will debut in March 2011, a date that fits in nicely with Palm’s projected early 2011 launch. Bachman’s prediction is based on information obtained from…
Palm was expected to deliver webOS 2.0 to its handsets by the end of 2010, but it looks like that date may have slipped. A tweet from O2 Germany suggests the update may land on current devices in early 2011. Unfortunately, early 2011 extends from January to March and the tweet does not reveal whether…
At the Wall Street Journal’s D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Jon Rubinstein took the stage to talk about the past and future of Palm’s webOS. When asked about Palm’s focus prior to being acquired by HP, Rubinstein says that a tablet really wasn’t in the works and that the company’s main focus was on phones.…
One of the biggest features we were hoping for with Palm webOS 2.0 was a virtual software keyboard but we haven’t heard much about this … until now. The good folks at PreCentral did some digging with the latest webOS 2.0 software and found the virtual keyboard is alive and well. It’s still kind of…