It’s official. The AT&T Palm Pixi Plus is now available for $49.99 on contract. If signing a 2-year deal ain’t your thing (just be glad you’re not in Canada, it’d be a 3-year contract 🙂 ), you can pick one up as is, off-contract for $299. Not bad really, when you consider the Pixi Plus’…
HP: Don’t Worry, We’re Still Going to Make Smartphones, Honest
Yesterday, HP said they didn’t acquire Palm to get into the smartphone business, and they’ve issued a clarification, for those who read that as “we aren’t going to make smartphones”. When we look at the market, we see an array of interconnected devices, including tablets, printers, and of course, smartphones. We believe webOS can become…
Smartphone apps usage on the up and up, iPhone users have most installed apps
Whether you’re on BlackBerry, Android, iPhone, or some other smartphone platform, if you’ve got something to do, chances are, there’s an app to help you do it. With smartphone usage on the up and up and app stores from iPhone and Android growing ever faster and adding more features at an almost daily pace, there’s…
Microsoft not worried about Android on tablets
We’re about to see a flood of Android tablets, possibly including one directly from Google, but Microsoft doesn’t seem too concerned about the little, green robot gaining traction in the emerging tablet space. Steve Guggenheimer, VP at Microsoft, said the tablet situation could be similar to the netbook market, as at the beginning many Linux-based…
HP cuts 9,000 jobs, restructures with mobile in mind
These are the stories I hate to write about but Hewlett-Packard is cutting roughly 3% of its global workforce, which should result in about 9,000 people losing their jobs. According to the Associated Press, “the job cuts will result from productivity gains and automation in the data centers, which are clusters of computers that HP’s…
Android nabs webOS designer Duarte
Google has nabbed a key employee away from Palm and the hiring of Matias Duarte could lead to Android having a better user interface in the future. Duarte was the senior director of human interface and user experience at Palm and he was the chief architect in charge of the UI for webOS. You can…
Palm Hosting San Francisco PDK Party During WWDC 2010
One has to at the very least give Palm credit for the timing on this. Palm has posted (via the Developer Center) that they will host a ‘San Francisco PDK Party’ on June 9th from 6PM to 9PM: Palm and Appcelerator invite you to a co-hosted night of networking. Enjoy hot food and cold drinks…
Foursquare for webOS Updated with Push Notifications
Foursquare on the Palm Pre and Pixi has been updated with a few bug fixes and push notifications for friend check-ins. A few minor aesthetic tweaks were also made, like changing nearby specials from in-line with the venue title to a bigger splash button in the top-right, and a magnifying glass next to the search…
Bell Gives Palm and webOS an Open-Handed Slap to the Face
Palm and webOS fans, take note. Bell is giving you a stern slap in the face with this one. At least that’s how I interpret it. The good folks at Bell offer a wide variety of smartphones, including the iPhone and many popular BlackBerry and Android-powered devices. They also have the webOS toting Palm Pre…
Gowalla for webOS Updated With Search and Facebook Viewing
The recent update to Android’s Gowalla app has been followed up with a roughly equivalent one for webOS, including stuff like comments and picture uploading for particular spots. Searching and filtering spots is included in this update, which came to iPhone awhile back, as well as a redesigned passport, the ability to peruse trips made…