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HTC Legend: Hardware Hands-on

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:18:00 +0000

Wow, it sure is busy at IntoMobile Towers, here in the UK. Devices rich person been incoming faster than my letterbox volition handle, but I’ve also had one very guiding light reaching – the HTC Legend! This is means ahead of it’s UK release at the oddment of this calendar month/start of next calendar month (depending on who you believe, and where you are getting it from)! Unfortunately I only had the gimmick for the very briefest period of time, but that didn’t stopover me cranking out a duet of videos – in this one we proceeds a whistlestop circuit around the computer hardware:

You can discovery out more about the HTC Legend at HTC’s official web site here.

Palm downgraded over worries about Verizon sales

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:49:00 +0000

‘Shares of Palm Inc. slid Tues good morning after two brokers downgraded the maker of radio handsets, citing weaker-than-expected smartphones sales since their distribution debut through the Verizon mesh.’

GSM Palm Pixi Caught on Camera

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Remember those new BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold 9700 pics I shared with you not so long ago? The same folks at Tinhte.com came through for us there, and they’re showin’ off some more love this good morning too. This meter around they’ve got the GSM version of the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pixi for show.

Interestingly sufficiency, the GSM variant looks to be backpacking 4GB of memory (half of what we’re expecting on the CDMA version), an EDGE logotype and a SIM circuit board slot under the assault and battery.

Hopefully with tasty leaks of the GSM variant like this hit us, we’ll see the GSM’d-out Palm Pixi on AT&ere;T (New York Stock Exchange: T) quite shortly after it launches on Sprint (NYSE: S). Me thinks that should be the case, but you never know.

Hit up the jump for a quick video recording.

[Via: EngadgetMobile]

WebOS 1.2 Arriving Sep 24th. with Paid Apps?

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:47:00 +0000

Get ready to scratch of that “beta” tatter on your Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre’s app market; rumour has it webOS 1.2 (of which we’ve seen bits and pieces) will be arriving next workweek on the 24th. with paid applications in the marketplace. Up until now it’s been big newsworthiness whenever the webOS app store offers up a paltry half-dozen new apps at a time, but with paid applications on the means, we’ll likely see the floodgates surface. Of course, that’s not the only matter awaiting us in 1.2…

Zoom animation in the web browser; A new menu options – Edit, Select All; Tap and select portions of a web varlet by holding Shift and tapping the screen; Tap and hold the Orange River push button to save a photograph to Pictures or to contribution it with others. The same button can be used for first step of a new card or to written matter and/or share a link; Tapping a text incoming loge zooms it; Type to discovery within the electronic mail app; Audio clock alarm tin be enabled even when the dead ringer switch is off; Tasks ar sortable by due appointment and precedence; App Catalog supports credit card selective information storage; Location can be found via Global Positioning System or Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Services.

This promises to be a nice update, and volition surely pave the means for the Palm Pixi. I sure promise Palm fixes the iTunes sync while they’re at it…

Palm Pre Off to European Union in Sep?

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:27:00 +0000

A daily financial newspaper in Romania called the Ziarul Financiar is claiming that the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre volition be exercise set to launching in European Union by the remainder of September. Not too much else is known at this point, although they did reputation that the cost of the Pre would run somewhere around $550 USD… I certainly hope that’s for an unlocked variant of the webOS powered wonder.

Won’t be long now until we tin pick up the Pre in Canada and over in Europe. At least that’s the promise. The launch of the Palm Pre was seemingly delayed meter and meter again… Let’s hope that the Pre makes it to other locales sometime this class.

JCPenney, Cellfire team-up on mobile coupons

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:27:00 +0000

U.S. retail merchant JCPenney is partnering with Cellfire on mobile coupons, allowing shoppers to “band up savings with an innovative electric cell-headphone voucher program.” As a result, interested customers will be able to carry their coupons with them, no matter where they happen to be, and appearance/CAT scan them directly from the phone’s blind at the cash register. For that determination, JCPenney has installed 2D barcode readers in 16 of its stores in the Houston metro expanse.

To entice its customers to manipulation the new overhaul, JCPenney will promote the opening through web and mobile advertising, and directly via e-chain armor and other messaging to members of JCPenney’s JCP Rewards program in the Houston market. Existing Cellfire users volition also rich person approach to the same coupons on their mobile phones they would receive from JCPenney by mail…

Palm Pre Launching in Ccanada this month

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:52:00 +0000

Bell today announced that the new Palm Pre earphone volition be exclusively available in Canada at Bell Mobility on Aug 27. The company has beginning accepting pre-ordering through bell.ca/pre, it volition be available from $199.95 on a triplet-class contract or $599.95 without a contract with a minimum five hundred MB information plan.

Alexander Bell smartphone clients tin choose from a wide variety of part and information plans, including Smartphone Combos that offer unlimited Net browsing, personal electronic mail, textual matter electronic messaging and Windows Live Messenger.

“We’re very excited to bring the revolutionary Palm Pre and the Palm webOS mobile chopine to Canadians exclusively on Bell’s subject wireless network – the largest high-speed 3G net in Canada,” said Virginia Wade Oosterman, President of Alexander Bell Mobility and Chief Brand Officer for Alexander Bell. “Considering the highly successful US entry of the Palm Pre by Sprint in June and fasting-ontogenesis Palm Pre bombilation among Canadian River mobile users, Alexander Bell and our retail partners are preparing for high requirement for this discovery phone.”