Those who have been waiting for new webOS phones in the UK won’t have to wait much longer; the Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus (which just found its way to AT&T) will be available on O2 as of May 28. The Palm Pre Plus updates the original webOS smartphone with 16 GB of internal…
WebOS Coming to Slates and Printers – HP CEO
HP recently acquired ailing Palm, spurring a whole slew of speculation regarding the fate of the HP Slate tablet computer, and the new direction for webOS. Yesterday during a Q2 conference call, HP’s CEO Mark Hurd confirmed that they “expect to leverage WebOS into a variety of form factors, including slates and Web-connected printers”. So…
Sprint CFO admits Palm Pre failed
Sprint’s Chief Financial Officer Robert Brust let a ill-timed statement slip out to investors – specifically, that “The Pre didn’t work out as well as we hoped,” He told investors that the worst is behind them. Sorry to be blunt, but no shit. Why the man waited this long to say the Palm Pre bombed…
Facebook for webOS gets update
Facebook and Palm have released an updated version of the social networking application for webOS devices and it’s a relatively minor one that focuses on squashing bugs. The Facebook app for the Pre and Pixi is a solid way to update your status, look at the news feed, browse your friends’ updates and upload photos.…
Palm Pixi Plus on AT&T Confirmed for June 6
The Palm Pixi Plus was announced at the same time as the Pre Plus on AT&T, but even though the latter came out this weekend, the prior won’t be available until June 6 according to AT&T’s webOS landing page. The Pixi Plus will be going for $49.99 on a two-year contract, and includes the usual…
Super-Sleuthing Reveals webOS Firmware Carrier Delays
Here’s an interesting quickie for all of the Pre and Pixi users out there. If you’ve ever wondered how long the lag is between Palm submitting a firmware update to a carrier, and the actual firmware update going live, wonder no longer. Thanks to one Rod Whitby (founder of the webOS Internals Group), we can…
Symbian users love mobile ads – Symbian OS users 2.7 times more likely to click ads than iPhone OS users
If you’re a Symbian OS user, you’ll be happy to know that your smartphone operating system of choice has at least one leg-up on the iPhone OS. The Symbian smartphone platform sends 2.7 times the number of mobile advertising clicks as the iPhone OS! No other OS even comes close to the mobile ad click-through…
HP outbid four others for Palm
Hewlett-Packard spent $1.2 billion to acquire Palm but it wasn’t the only one interested in getting its hands on webOS and all those increasingly-valuable mobile patents. According to an SEC filing, there was a five-company bidding war for Palm. HP is the only company named (the others are just referred to as “Company X”) but…
Palm’s App Catalog fails over the weekend
Palm’s App Catalog is up and running again after an unknown glitch caused it to go down for most of the weekend. On its blog, Palm acknowledged there were problems downloading and installing applications from its store. It didn’t spell out what the exact glitch was, but it promised that the issues were now fixed.…
Palm Pre Plus hits AT&T for $149.99 with wireless Touchstone charger
AT&T and Palm have apparently chosen this fine Sunday to go live with Big Blue’s very first webOS-powered smartphone – the AT&T Palm Pre Plus. Today is May 16th, after all, and AT&T did previously promise to unleash the Palm Pre Plus on the American masses today for just $149.99 when purchased with a new…