Price Tariffs For Palm Pre Plus And Pixi Plus On O2 Announced
Posted on May 19th, 2010 | 0 CommentsO2, the carrier for Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus in the UK market has announced that the two Palm smartphones shall go on sale starting May 28. Additionally, the network operator has also announced the price tariffs for the two handsets. As expected, there are two levels of contracts – one for a [...]
AT&T Palm Pre Plus Launch On May 16
Posted on May 8th, 2010 | 0 CommentsAn internal memo circulated among AT&T employees has revealed that the Palm Pre Plus could be launching on Ma Bell’s network as early as May 16th. According to a copy of the memo published on Engadget, the device shall be made available across all the sales channels of AT&T and will allow users to access [...]
Palm Pre And Pixi Prices See Massive Discounts
Posted on May 4th, 2010 | 0 CommentsWith Palm being snapped up by HP, there is a lot of possible strategy change that is expected with the smartphone manufacturer. This means that the present flagship products, Palm Pre and Pixi may not be in the scheme of things in sometime now, though the company’s future itself is secure. This has led to [...]
Palm Pre Plus On AT&T Show Up
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 | 0 CommentsDummy units of Palm Pre Plus are reported to be making it to the stores of AT&T. This could possibly be an indication of the upcoming launch of a GSM version of the popular smartphone handset from Palm. No reports over the launch date, price at the moment, but according to folks at Engadget, the [...]
How To Add Music/Video/Picture Files To Palm Pre
Posted on April 30th, 2010 | 0 CommentsUnlike iPhone, Palm Pre does not come with a native software like iTunes to download music and video files from your computer to your phone. However, there is an alternate software solution in doubleTwist. Using doubleTwist is simple and very much like using iTunes. Here is a step by step guide for you to sync [...]
HP Enters Smartphone Segment With Palm Acquisition
Posted on April 29th, 2010 | 0 CommentsFinally the drama surrounding the acquisition of Palm came to an end with Hewlett Packard announcing that the company is acquiring Palm for an estimated $1.2 billion. Making the announcement on the company’s website, Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group at HP said, “Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform to expand [...]
Palm Fires Ad Agency, Scouting For New Partners
Posted on April 7th, 2010 | 0 CommentsFollowing a lackluster performance over the past few quarters, Palm is known to have severed its ties with Modernista, the ad agency which was responsible for the several “creepy” looking ads of late and is reported to be talking to several agencies. Modernista is not the only casualty. The company has also reportedly fired its [...]
Palm Peer-to-Peer Data Synchronization
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 | 0 CommentsPalm has clinched an important patent that relates to P2P data synchronization among several devices like desktop computers, laptops, mobile handsets,etc. The patent application that was filed way back in 2007 and awarded just recently can be a terrific shot in the arm for the now-beleaguered company. In the patent, the inventors say that their [...]
Device Orientation Based Context Detection On Smartphones
Posted on March 19th, 2010 | 0 CommentsIn order to make applications easy to use, smartphone manufacturers offer a variety of shortcuts. Additionally, these devices also come with reconfigurable buttons so that the same button may be used for different purposes depending on the application that is open and context. Palm Inc. wants to take it a step further by including the [...]
Palm Launching WiMAX Handset On Sprint
Posted on March 10th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThe sale of Palm Pre and Pixi handsets have not quite met expectations. A report on Softpedia reveals popular analyts’ speculation that the company plans to bail itself out of this situation by launching a WiMAX handset on Sprint. However, not everyone thinks this is a possibility. Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney says a new WiMAX [...]