It was late April when I told you about the Bell Palm Pre going up for free on 2 and 3 year contracts. A hard-to-beat price for sure, especially if you have been wanting a Pre for some time. Today, Bell has made another move on the Pre front. They’ve gone ahead and eliminated the…
Pre Plus hitting AT&T May 16 for $150
Talk about too little too late, but Palm’s Pre Plus smartphone will be hitting AT&T May 16 for $150 and it will include a free Touchstone charger. The handset will be similar to the Verizon version except it will have a few AT&T touches. There will be custom software like AT&T’s navigator service and some…
Palm Pixi Plus now free!
If you’ve been waiting for a dirt-cheap way to jump into webOS, your prayers have been answered because Verizon Wireless is now offering the Palm Pixi Plus for free with a new, two-year contract. You’ll have to shell out at least $70 per month on service ($30 for data and $40 for voice) but you’ll…
Has HP revived Palm’s mothballed webOS tablet?
Palm may have failed to capture consumers’ attention with their webOS mobile before company resources started becoming scarce, but there’s no denying that twas touch-happy mobile operating system was the closest thing to an iPad killer available today. That is, until now. Rumors have Palm’s new parent company, HP, developing a tablet device – codenamed…
webOS Update Arriving Late May/Early June
Shortly following a small service update, a private alert from Palm notified developers of a new webOS software development kit that will be available early May, 2-3 weeks before end-users get their mitts on the latest version. The main warning goes out to developers who have used the plug-in development kit to create their apps,…
The mobile roundup – The HP buys Palm edition
We were in sunny Orlando for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry conference this week and thought its new handsets would be the big story of the week but then Hewlett-Packard dropped $1.2 billion to buy Palm. While that deal will have significant ramifications for years to come, there was also some hot hardware introduced and some…
With Palm buy, HP intends to “double down” on webOS
Let’s make no mistake: Hewlett-Packard spent $1.2 billion to buy Palm because it wants to push webOS at scale, according to statement from HP executives. “WebOS is the best-in-class mobile operating system,” said Brian Humphries, HP’s senior VP of strategy and corporate development, in a conference call. “Our intent is to double down on webOS.”…
Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus get minor webOS update (webOS 1.4.1.1)
If you’re like us, you’re probably a little distracted by HP’s late-Wednesday announcement that the company will be buying Palm for a cool $1.2 billion dollars. So distracted, in fact, that you may not have noticed that Verizon is pushing out an update for your Verizon Palm Pre Plus or Palm Pixi Plus. The webOS…
Why HP is buying Palm
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to purchase the struggling Palm for $1.2 billion, the companies announced late Wednesday, and HP had to make a move like this to stay relevant in a rapidly changing environment. The deal will give HP a strong brand name, a litany of patents, and an operating system (webOS) that has some great…
HP acquires Palm for 1.2 billion
Today HP and Palm announced that HP will be acquiring the company for 1.2 billion dollars. This is certainly good for one of the leading PC manufacturers, and now they can push into the consumer and enterprise markets all at once with their IPAQ devices. Initially, Palm and HP were competing with each other with…