As Apple’s iPhone was gaining in popularity, Palm boldly debuted the Pre at the 2009 Consumer Electronic Show—and people loved it. It was a fantastically inventive device that had a sliding keyboard and charming rounded design. But it was Palm’s webOS that was the real star. The software acted as the successor to Palm OS, featuring some really cool ideas, including the cards interface...
As of Monday, The New York Times discontinued support for its dedicated BlackBerry and webOS applications. The Palm Pre, and webOS in general, have pretty much gone the way of the do-do, and RIM's BlackBerry smartphones have been struggling to hold a relevant position in today's smartphone landscape. "It's a matter of usage of our apps, and we dedicate our resources where we think...
It’s about that time of year again, the time of year when little technophiles the world over dream of new gadgets, and electronics companies trek from places far away to descend upon the desert to display their latest wares. Yes, it’s time again for CES, but what is it, exactly? What, Where and Who The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual electronics trade show...
Palm Pre Touchstone dock It’s beginning to look more and more like the iPhone 5 will indeed just be a minor update, or an iPhone 4S as some have taken to calling it. According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, the iPhone 5 will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4, and sport an 8 megapixel camera along with a new dual-core chip from Apple. These rumors have been...
Monday’s Top 5 Tablets post was so much fun I decided to make another list today. I’m running a bit behind today thanks to an 11th hour invite to Google’s Inside Search event, so forgive my tardiness here. But alas, a few hours later, here are my current Top Five Phones. A quick note: Thanks to everyone who commented on the Tablets post, and double thanks to those of you who chimed in...
It’s six months since HP purchased Palm, and while there has been a lot of talk about what sort of devices this would bring about, there has been nothing tangible that one could hold in their hands as of yet. All of that has changed today with two major announcements coming out about not only webOS 2.0, but also the Palm Pre 2 will be hitting store shelves in the not too distant future...
Self proclaimed defender of the WebOS community, ReleaseMyPre put Palm on notice with a 79 hour deadline late last week demanding device details be made public for their next WebOS offering. Now the vigilante is putting that demand on hiatus, urging fellow WebOS users to stage a Twitter protest in anger over the missing 1.4.5 software update for Pre Plus users tied to Verizon or AT...
Since the news first broke about HP buying Palm, people have been speculating what exactly the purchase was about. There was no question that it was largely about WebOS (yes, I know the it’s “webOS”, but I also refuse to write “iPod touch” or “Yahoo!” with their stupid little spellings and punctuations), but the big thing that no one knew was what would happen with the Palm Pre and...
It isn’t often that technology bloggers get taken totally off guard, but just such an event has happened with HP acquiring Palm. As recently as last week, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein was claiming that Palm would attempt to stay independent, but there was talk that buyers were reviewing a possible purchase and quickly backing away. Some reports said that Lenovo was still interested in...
Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Palm has retained banking advisers to assist with the possible sale of Palm to another company. The once king of the PDA market and a pioneer in the smartphone sector has fallen on hard times with its Palm Pre and Palm Pixi failing to live up to sales expectations, and it has begun to look like a sale may be the only possible solution...