Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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Free Verizon Palm Pixi Plus…
… with two year contract of course. (Come on, you had to know that was coming.) Of course you may have already seen that it was a penny from Amazon for a little while now. This isn’t the biggest news in the world.
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Thoughts on HP buying Palm
I was so shocked buy Hewlett-Packard buying Palm this week that I had to take a few to days to gather my reactions. Here’s what we know:
Purchase Price – Hewlett-Packard will be purchasing Palm for $5.70 a share or 1.2 billion dollars.
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Palm Pixi Plus Heading to Europe
Its official now. Palm Pixi Plus (along with Palm Pre Plus) is heading to Europe. Both phones would be available in Germany on O2 and Vodafone networks starting April 28. In UK, Palm phones will launch on O2 network later this month and they are expected to be available to Vodafone UK customers in May, 2010. Further, it is believed that both these phones will also be available in France on SFR network. starting April 27th. For French customers, the Pixi Plus will carry a €49 up front price tag, while the Pre Plus will cost €149, or €99 including €50 mail-in rebate.
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Palm Pre Plus to Win Laptop Magazine
We previously mentioned that Palm Pre Plus Beat the Nexus One in Laptop Magazine’s March Madness poll. Well, it’s moved on to bigger and better things since then. It beat the Blackberry Bold (9700) and the new HTC HD2. So now the Palm Pre Plus finds itself in the final match with [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
