Yeah, Palm was going out on a limb with the Foleo, but clearly they haven’t lost their taste for experimentation. This rotating handset supposedly dubbed Roteo could be coming in 2009 from Palm, complete with what looks like a trackpad and two soft keys, a front-facing video camera, and a full QWERTY keypad. Folks are…
Palm Warns of Q2 Loss, Nobody Surprised
We had heard last week that Palm was planning some layoffs for the holidays, and although we don’t have the number of pink slips being handed out, recent warning of second quarter losses indicate that they hope to shave off $20 million in expenses in order to stay afloat. Palm’s looking at around $190 million…
Palm To Make Traditional Holiday Workforce Cuts
Looks like it’s going to be another sad, sad holiday for some folks over at Palm. Last December they made cuts to their workforce, and this year it looks to be more of the same. Palm InfoCenter has reported that the smartphone and software company will be letting go of quite a large chunk of…
Apple iPhone 3G outpaces Palm to No. 2 corporate smartphone spot
There really is no stopping this wave of iPhone 3G adoption, it seems. The iPhone 3G is the most reliable smartphone, has been proclaimed the most satisfying handset among business customers, trumped the venerable Motorola RAZR in US handset sales, and has helped Apple become the second-largest smartphone vendor in the world. Now, Apple has…
CDMA Palm Treo Pro Coming to Sprint in January 2009
Treo-heads, don’t get too excited about this one as I’d prefer to file it under ‘rumor’ at this point… However that being said there’s a pretty darn good chance that it’ll happen 🙂 Rumor has it that a CDMA version of the Palm Treo Pro is on its way to big yellow, a.k.a. Sprint. The…
Palm Treo Pro gets Bluetooth fixing update
The Palm Treo Pro, being Palm’s flagship handset, is the best Palm Treo to ever come out of Palm’s R&D labs. But, that doesn’ t mean that the recently launched handset is immune to the bugs that tend to plague new devices. Palm has issued a new software update that promises to fix a niggling…
Deal: Dell offers $100 off on Palm Treo Pro purchase!
You’ve read that correctly – it’s Dell which is offering $100 off of Palm Treo Pro purchase. Regular price of Palm’s latest Windows Mobile smartphone is $549.99 but if you use coupon “27RR9ZSWHW?6BZ” you’ll get $100 instant discount in the cart. The offer expires on Wednesday, November 19th, so be quick. And if you need…
iPhone trounces BlackBerry, Treo in reliability
Man, not only is the iPhone beating BlackBerry in sales and customer satisfaction, but the latest study from SquareTrade is showing that BlackBerrys malfunction about twice as much as an iPhone. Ouch. The survey gathered results from 15,000 handsets over the course of a year, which showed that 11.2% of BlackBerrys covered under SquareTrade’s warranties…
Palm Treo Pro Arrives on the Vodafone New Zealand Network
Palm has announced that the Treo Pro will be available on the Vodafone New Zealand network. The Treo Pro is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, and has key built-in features such as WiFi, GPS and more. The device is one of the nicest and thinnest Treo’s I’ve seen to-date, no doubt Palm has and is…
Palm makes it rain, breaks the bank
Like so many club-scene aficionados blowing their Friday paycheck in a bid to “make it rain” dollar-dollar-bills-ya’ll, it seems that Palm is burning through their cash reserves. Unlike those ghetto-rific clubbers, however, Palm doesn’t have a bottle of “Dom P” or the prospect of a romantic tryst to blame for their fiscal promiscuity. A recent…