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Palm Extends Half-Off webOS Sale Until July 23rd
There’s good news for all your webOS app addicts! Palm is extending the Half-off sale on webOS apps until July 23rd. As per an update on Palm Developer Blog, the company made this decision keeping both customers and developers in mind. An additional two weeks 50% sale will give customers more time to explore the catalog and get great deals on your apps. As a developer, it gives you more time to develop and publish your app on the Palm app store. So, if you are a webOS developer, you can take the extra time in order to polish your app and fix some bugs to generate higher sales and revenue.
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Amazon Offering Palm Pre Plus (AT&T and Verizon) for One Cent
The prices of Palm phones continue to plunge. Amazon is now offering the Palm Pre Plus – both for AT&T and Verizon subscribers for one cent. That’s just about as close as it gets to getting a Palm webOS phone for free. That’s not all, there are other complimentary goodies as well. Amazon is offering free activation and free two-day shipping for users who purchase the Palm Pre Plus between 12:00 midnight PDT on June 14, 2010, through 11:59 p.m. PDT, June 30, 2010. If you are a Verizon subscriber, there’s good news for you as well – Verizon has waived off the $40 monthly fee to turn your Palm Pre Plus (and Palm Pixi Plus) phone into a 3G Mobile Hotspot. The mentioned offers are not valid for prepaid and unlocked phones.
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Tweet about Hot Palm apps and win a Touchstone Charging Dock
Finding apps for your Palm webOS phone has never been so rewarding. If you download any of your favorite apps from the hot apps seen on the leader board found at palmhotapps.com, you are entitled to winning a Touchstone Charging Dock for free. All you need to do is tweet about your favorite Palm app. The [...]
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Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Available Soon for O2 Customers in the UK
For those waiting to buy the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus in UK, there’s some good news. Palm and O2 have confirmed that both these phones will be launched on the latter’s network in UK on May 28th. As far as the pricing goes, it’s definitely on the higher side. The lowest monthly tariff price is £25 and the highest is £60. If you opt for £35 or above, you get the device (Pre Plus or Pixi Plus) for free on a two year contract. O2 offers an 18 month contract as well.
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webOS 1.4.5 To Offer 3D Gaming on Palm Pixi
If you are a gaming addict, there’s good news for you. 3D gaming is all set to arrive on your Palm Pixi with the release of webOS 1.4.5 in the next several weeks. The new webOS release will support PDK apps and 3D-accelerated games on the entry-level Pixi. Palm launched 3D gaming on the Pre in January this year. Last week, Palm sent out an email to developers encouraging them to test apps that make use of its Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). The Palm PDK extends the original SDK with tools to enable 3D programming – against the newly released webOS 1.4.5 beta.
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Latest AdMob Report: webOS holds fort
AdMob, a popular Mobile advertising specialist firm has recently released its March, 2010 report on leading mobile operating systems accounting for it’s advertising traffic. The latest report suggest that despite the dwindling fortunes of Palm (now a part of HP), webOS has managed to hold its fort as a popular mobile operating system. The report paints a steady picture for Palm webOS and projects Android as the leading mobile operating system for the future.
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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 Pre’s Award Winning 2009
While we like to focus on the Palm Pixi here, it shouldn’t go unnoticed that it’s big brother the Palm Pre is winning all sorts of awards. Let’s review a few of the most notable over the last year.
Best of CES 2009 and People’s Voice Award – The year started off with a bang [...]
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Palm Answers Your Pixi Questions via Twitter
Got Pixi questions? Palm has answers. The director of product marketing at Palm, Phil McClendon, is taking your questions via Twitter from Monday, November 2, at 11:30AM PT. Just tweet @palm and use the #pixi hash code. You can following the questions by searching #pixi on Twitter.
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