It’s not like we’re surprised, quite the contrary. HP said it will sell the Palm Pre 2 unlocked from its website, allowing folks to use it with the network of their choice as long as they have a SIM card. The price is $450, though businesses can also spread the cost across two years to…
Verizon offers $10 per line discount for smartphone owners on a Family SharePlan
Verizon confirmed that it will offer a discount on the price of a multi-line Family SharePlan if you buy a new smartphone. Starting tomorrow November 19th, customers that buy a smartphone from Verizon will have the $9.99 monthly additional line fee waived for the entire length of the two-year contract. This monthly savings tallies up to $240…
Palm’s Jon Rubinstein: “This time next year, you’ll see us in a very different position”
While Palm didn’t announce anything at the Web 2.0 Summit that’s taking place this week in San Francisco, Jon Rubinstein, the head of the new organization that is now a part of HP, had some choice words to share: “Palm created the PDA (personal digital assistant) space with the Pilot and the smartphone space after…
Palm Pre officially assigned to Sprint’s end-of-life list
The Palm Pre recently disappeared from Sprint’s website and its disappearance kicked up rumors that the webOS handset was on its way out. This speculation was well founded as a leaked internal document confirms the EOL (end-of-life) status for the original Pre. From this point forward, the wireless carrier will sell its remaining inventory and will no longer…
Palm Pre 2 to launch in the UK on November 15th without carrier support
Palm is launching its Pre 2 handset in the UK starting on November 15th but the handset will not land on the shelves of any major wireless carrier in the UK. According to Pocket-Lint, a quick perusal of wireless carriers reveals that none of the four major wireless carriers in the UK have plans to…
Palm Pre 2 for Verizon spotted in leaked document for Q4 2010 launch
The Palm Pre 2 was announced in nothing more than just a press release pretty recently, and it looks like we have a pretty good idea for when it will launch with Verizon. Here’s a hint: the Kin One and Two won’t be arriving in Verizon stores all alone this holiday season. That’s right, the…
Skype hitting webOS soon, but with limitations
It seems that Skype users are getting tugged and pulled here and there these days when it comes to a mobile app. At first, it was available nearly everywhere, then restrictions popped up when Verizon signed a deal with Skype, and suddenly Skype was pulling its services from apps like Fring. However, the popular VoIP…
Palm Pre vanishes from Sprint and Verizon’s web sites
It is the end of an era for webOS fans as the original Palm Pre has disappeared from Sprint’s website. After being on sale for over 1.5 years, the Palm Pre is no longer available online from the nation’s #3 wireless carrier. References to the handout are still interspersed throughout the carrier’s website but this…
Google News now optimized for the smartphone screen
Doing what I do for a living, I spend a lot of time looking at Google News on my various smartphones. That’s why I’m happy to say the search giant has improved Google News for smartphone devices that run on the Android OS, iPhone (iOS) OS and webOS. Google has updated the way Google News…
Grooveshark for webOS Updated With Shuffle Mode
Hot on the heels of their Android update, the most excellent web and mobile music service, Grooveshark, has recently updated their webOS app. Palm Pre and Pixi owners can now shuffle their music, control music through a new dashboard player that hangs out in the notification area, and a few other things. Here are the…