Sprint’s Palm Pre marked for End of Life?
We don't quite know how to break it to you, but if PreCentral sources are correct, Palm's hit a very interesting landmark: its comeback device, the Pre for Sprint, has reportedly reached End of Life (EOL). Warehouse quantities are said to be limited, and after that... well...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ebay, engadget, eol, friend-via, hp palm, palmpre, pixi, quantities, ride, sequel, web os, webos, wild
HP contracts 5 or 6 new Palm devices for 2011?
Underwhelmed by the feeling of sameness with the Pre 2 ? Well, you may or may not be in luck; Chinese-based CENS.com is reporting that manufacturers Foxconn and Compal now have contracts to manufacturer up to six new Palm devices for 2011. That boils down to one for Compal, and either four or five for Foxconn.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: chinese-based, Compal, form, guess, hp palm, hppalm, non-pebble-form, palm, palm pad, palmpad, rest-assured, the-feeling, web os
WebOS 2.0 beta screenshot extravaganza
We've heard about Palm's big plans for webOS 2.0 -- heck, we've even seen a handful of pictures here or there. And now we've been graced with lots, lots more
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: features, fence, filetypes, imagination, mobile, mobileme, web os, webos2
Apple, RIM, Google all bid on Palm?
We're having a hell of a time believing this, but BusinessInsider's Dan Frommer is citing "a source familiar with the negotiations" as saying that RIM, Google, and Apple -- yes, Apple -- were all in the mix for Palm at one point or another as the bidding war went on earlier this year. We all know how that story ended up playing out , but prior to HP's winning bid, RIM allegedly made a generous offer and could've ultimately come away with the prize had it not failed to re-up the bid (and may have even reduced it, looking at Palm's SEC filings) after HP made its move. For its part, Google apparently made some not-too-serious moves, primarily in a perceived head game with Apple.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: acquisition, apple, been-interested, entry, game, iphone, research-in-motion, rim, sizable-patent, source-familiar, takeover, web os
webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving ‘install failed’ messages in their wake
Just a day before the Pre Plus launches on AT&T , current Palm owners are experiencing all kinds of problems related to the App Store and their Palm Profiles. Reports indicate the problems started last night, since then users haven't been able to download new apps or update existing ones from the catalog, while those unlucky enough to have tried a reset have had trouble signing back into their Palm profile in the cloud, and have lost some information like call logs and had to resync their various accounts in webOS.
Categories: Mobile Phone, PS2 Tags: app store, entry, hopefully-avoid, install failed, installfailed, official, palm, palm pixi, palmpixi, palmpre, palmpreplus, web os
WebOS 1.4 hitting Sprint’s Pre and Pixi on February 15th?
Good news for nonplussed (in more ways that one ) Pre and Pixi owners: come the day after Valentine's, it looks like you'll be able to capture your loved ones in moving pictures format! This comes from an alleged Sprint technician who reportedly took the above screencap promising a firmware update with all the features we've heard debuting as webOS 1.4 , except for Flash support on the Pre. Note our use of "alleged" and "reportedly," though -- we can't independently confirm this image, so take it with a grain of salt
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, features, Grain, halfway, moving, moving-pictures, nonplussed, palm-pre, pixi, release, sprint, update, web os, webos 14, webos1.4
Palm Pre Plus (and Pixi Plus) review
It's been about a year since Palm pulled itself back from the brink of imminent destruction with the announcement of webOS and the Palm Pre , and even less time since the products announced actually hit the market. In that time span, the company has issued another handset (the small, less powerful Pixi ), released a number of over-the-air updates to its OS (nine in all), and created and disseminated a slew of developer tools, including iterative releases of its SDK and a new web-based development environment called Ares .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: destruction, developer-tools, palm pixi plus, pampreplus, preplus, tweaking, tweaking-on-its, web os, web os 1.4
Engadget now available for Pre and Pixi: the first webOS app of 2010 (and 1000th in the Catalog)!
That's right folks. Hot on the heels of our iPhone app release (which has since skyrocketed up the App Store charts to #1 in News), the webOS version has officially landed
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, engadget app, entry, experience, heels, keep-it-tuned, open-the-app, palm pixi, pre, result, simply-popping, touch-version, web os, webos