American computer giant Hewlett-Packard announced today that Stephen DeWitt will be taking over from Jon Rubinstein as Senior Vice President and general manager of its web OS Global Business Unit, with responsibility for all aspects of web OS. Rubinstein was named as a senior vice president for product innovation for all products within the Personal … Read more
After HP took over the Palm brand of mobile phones in it’s attempt to get into the smartphone market we’ve been waiting to see what will come out of the PC giants stable. Well first we’ve got the HP Veer. A small smartphone more than capable of delivering the goods that a large smartphone could … Read more
Business gurus Bloomberg announced that electronics company Palm, makers of the Palm Pre has gone up for sale and early reports suggest that Taiwanese mobile company HTC are interesting in buying the company in an attempt to strengthen its foothold in the mobile market and then hopefully challenge Apple as top dog. HTC has … Read more
We spoke a while back about the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi appearing to get a US release and ot on in the UK and our Yankee cousins have been benefitting from having the two Palm webOS smartphones on sale for a while now. Well it appears the UK might actually be getting them as … Read more
Palm has announced at CES this weekend gone that it is upgrading it’s Pre/Pixi range of smartphones (by adding a “Plus” at the end). Although the Palm Pre seemed to have come out in America a lifetime ago, it has only just arrived in the UK so I’m pretty sure those who waited and waited … Read more
Palm announced the follow up to the massively popular Palm Pre last week, named the Palm Pixi we previously blogged about it when it was codenamed Eos. Not much has changed since then it is still a full qwerty candybar running Web Os but now we have some more specific details on it. It should … Read more
Palm have officially announced that the Palm Pre will be exclusively on O2 in the UK, Ireland, and Germany, and Movistarin Spain (all Telefonica companies).
Unfortunately they were not quite as open about specific release dates, only saying that it would be "in time for the holidays". That Christmas and not summer holidays unfortunately.
A nice long press release after the jump.
Great news for people living in the US. It has been officially announced that the Palm Pre will be available on June 6th and will cost $199.99 after $100 mail-rebate and 2-year contract. The phone will go on sale nationwide (US) at Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart stores. The Pre will … Read more
Just because we love the feeling of disappointment when a rumour turns out to be false we have some more Palm Pre rumours. The Boy Genius Report is claiming that Palm and Sprint will "make a big announcement in the Wall Street Journal on May 19th." Unless they are declaring themselves bankrupt I can only … Read more
There have been rumours of Palms 2nd webOS phone for a little while now but it seems it has finally been leaked. Dubbed the Palm Eos, it will be the company’s followup from the Centro — a quadband GSM / HSDPA phone. Apparantly it will be a lower-cost alternative to an iPhone with a $99 … Read more
We have just blogged over at our Palm Pre Blog about some new screenshots of the WebOS
This time we have some nice new screenshots of WebOS. This batch of screens leaked by a PalmPre developer didn’t actually originate on a real Pre – they were screen grabbed from the emulator that developers use to test their code (hence the OSX bar at the top)
The pictures show off what the Palm Pre looks like during a call, a one-touch panel for controlling wifi, toggling Airplane Mode, a setup page for Facebook, Google Mail and Microsoft Exchange (Synergy integration).the native Palm Pre Google Maps app and also some general setting pages.
More images after the Jump
Boygeniusreport have made a post regarding some cool little features of webOS that may of gone unnoticed. The features were dug up by BGRs Sarah during a recent interview with Roger MacNamee of Elevation Partners. MacNamee stated that: But better than that, it does stuff for you. So when you wake up in the morning, … Read more
I will class this one very much as a rumour and take it with a pinch of salt, but we can hope. According to Intomobile the Palm Pre will be launching next month – possibly as soon as February 15. The tip seems a little weak with Intomobile stating The tip comes from a TreoCentral … Read more
While more used to a business market Palm have decided to jump onto the consumer SmartPhone bandwagon launching a new phone presumably to compete with the like of the iPhone, Storm and G1.
Most interestingly the new phone, called the Pre, will not use Microsoft Windows Mobile like the normal Palm smartphones but use a new new integrated solution based on cloud computing called the Palm Web OS that is built on top of CMS, HTML and XML.
The Palm Pre will have the latest TI3 OMAP CPU, EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11b/g, GPS, Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage, a 3MP camera with LED flash, MicroUSB connection, mass storage support, 3.5mm headphone jack and Bluetooth A2DP support. The screen will be a 3.1 inch multitouch display with a 320 x 480 resolution.
Apparently the Pre with have a touchscreen gesture area right underneath the main display allowing for gesture controls which is supposed to make common tasks a breeze.
The phone will have a built in service called synergy which will allow you to log into multiple online sources including Google, Outlook and Facebook and synchronise your contact and calendar data without causing duplicates.
Another very interesting feature is that Palm have decided to dump the old charging methods and use inductive charging, dubbed touchstone. Inductive charging is where the device is place on a charging surface and it essentially charges up wirelessly. The technology has been around for several years now, and is most commonly used for electric toothbrushes, however beyond this they have not been a suitable solution for most consumer electronics as charging is slow.
I have to say I am quite liking the look of this new Palm, it certainly seems to tick a lot of the right boxes for my requirements in a phone. I think 2009 will be a big year for phones,
More images and video after the jump.