Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
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Verizon to Make Palm a Breakthrough Hit?
[Note: I'm probably going to sound a little over-enthusiastic in this post. Deal with it ...] Fresh off of being voted Best Smartphone by Laptop Magazine readers, there are a few other reasons why Palm is likely to reach critical mass in the smartphone market. Specifically, Verizon, the US’ biggest phone carrier, is creating a [...]
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Palm webOS 1.4.1 Arrives on Bell Canada and Sprint
Palm has released webOS 1.4.1 on a number of networks including Bell Canada and Sprint. There is no official word by either Palm or Verizon as to when webOS 1.4.1 would be available for Verizon customers. The biggest welcome change that webOS 1.4.1 brings for subscribers is that it allows them to purchase and download [...]
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Verizon Offers Free 3G Tethering on Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus
Verizon is now offering Free 3G Teethering, courtesy the Palm mobile hotspot app. Verizon has slashed the prices for Palm’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus smart phones.
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PalmSpot Contest – Just What Palm Needs
Everyone I know who has used a Palm WebOS device thinks it’s by far the best smart phone they’ve used. The biggest problem seems to be Palm’s ability to market WebOS. It’s hard to show Synergy in 30 seconds… and that’s just one of the features. How do you begin to show off multitasking in [...]
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Palm Pre Plus is the Only Perfect Gadget on Attack of the Show
The awards never seem to end for the Palm Pre Plus. The poor Palm Pixi is looking more and more overshadowed. In the last week, the Palm Pre Plus won Phone of the Year and knocked the Nexus One out of the March Madness tournament. I had forgotten to mention that it’s the first perfect [...]
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Palm Warns Users Against Overclocking Patches
Palm has officially warned usersto stay away from the overclocking patch that promises to spur Palm Pre’s performance. It is interesting to note that the overclocking patch boosts the Palm Pre’s clock speed from 500 MHz to a whopping 800 MHz. There’s another patch which overclocks the Palm Pre to 720 MHz. Two hackers code named ‘unixpshycho’ and ‘caj2008′ are the authors of these overclocking patches. The patches are believed to work on Palm Pre phones running on webOS 1.4.
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Palm Pre Plus Beats Nexus One in Laptop Magazine Poll
The Palm Pre Plus is really feeling it oats these days. Not only did it win Phone of the Year for 2010, but it followed that up by knocking off the Nexus One in Laptop Magazine’s March Madness Poll. We like to take these polls with a grain of salt as they are little more [...]
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Is Palm Dead?
With the poor results from Palm’s latest quarter the results were inevitable. Everyone was going to pill it in on. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Palm is only going down because of articles like this one that says it’s going down. I’d like to write a bit about that article. Rather than talk about the [...]
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webOS 1.4 Coming This Thursday?
At CES 2010, Palm had offered a sneak peak of what webOS 1.4 would have in store for users – Video Recording, Flash 10 Compatibility, Performance Improvements and some other minor upgrades. Though Palm set the clock ticking for the webOS 1.4 launch, it kept mum on when it would be available to users.
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Palm Pixi – Size Does Matter
With the much awaited Palm Pixi now available in the market, it is bound to draw comparisions with it’s competitors. Many comparisons are drawn upon the price, the features and a bunch of other critiera. Form Factor a.k.a size has gradually become a very important factor in deciding the popularity and public acceptance of a smartphone. Clearly, Palm has put in a lot of serious thinking into this aspect of the Palm Pixi and the form factor of the Pixi is a ‘Wow!’ We compare it to Palm Pre, Palm Treo, Palm Centro, iPhone and the Motorola RAZR.
