Tag Archives: WebOS
Palm Pixi Plus now free on AT&T, for the most part
Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by John.
You can now pick up the Palm Pixi Plus for free on AT&T, with a 2 year contract and data plan. What is a bit odd, is that this price only pertains to the Pixi Plus with the blue battery door, not the black. The Pixi Plus with the black battery door will still cost [...]
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Bell offering Palm Pre for Free – adds additional incentives
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by John.
Like others, Bell seems to be liquidating their webOS inventory, which really isn’t that big of a surprise. Bell is now selling the Palm Pre at a wonderful price of $0, when signing a new 3 year contract. On top of that, they are also taking $15 off your bill each month, throughout your contract [...]
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AT&T Palm Pre Plus Coming May 16th
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by John.
The guys over at Engadget have gotten a shot of an internal AT&T document about the release of the Palm (HP) Pre Plus. Looks like it will finally be making its way to customers on the 16th of this month, just over a week away for you Luke Wilson and webOS loving readers. Its been [...]
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webOS Update Coming Soon Says Palm
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by John.
I just received an interesting email from HP Palm regarding webOS and their SDK. According to the email a new version of webOS is close, so close in fact that there will be a new SDK in early May for developers. Developers are urged to test their apps on the new SDK, as well as [...]
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HP To Acquire Palm
Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by John.
This didn’t take long at all. Palm was on the market, publicly, for just over 2 weeks. HP and Palm have agreed to terms with HP acquiring Palm for $1.2 billion. Paying a low $5.70 per share HP plans on closing the transaction by July 31st, 2010. How do you guys feel about this? Personally [...]
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Palm Is Now For Sale
Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by John.
I can’t say that we didn’t see this coming. The writing has been on the wall for awhile now. According to Bloomberg, Palm has officially put itself up for sale. The report states that Palm has brought on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Qatalyst Partners to bring in a buyer. Apparently HTC has stated they [...]
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BlackBerry and Multitasking
Posted on 10. Apr, 2010 by John.
The iPad’s release has everyone in the gadget community talking about multitasking. What devices have it and which ones screwed up by leaving it out? The candidates for this discussion always revolve around the iDevices which sadly lack multitasking and Android and WebOS, the former sort of implementing it and the latter having full multitasking [...]
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Have Some Fun With “March Smart Phone Madness”
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by John.
The great folks over at laptopmag.com are having a “March Smart Phone Madness” contest in honor of the real March Madness. In their version various smartphones face off against each other and their readers get to vote on which phone they think is better. Yesterday the BlackBerry Tour took a page of the Northern Idaho [...]
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Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Now Available
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by John.
Today at the Game Developers Conference Palm announced the public release of their beta Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). The PDK will allow for easy porting of existing applications and games over to the webOS platform. The PDK complements the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK), letting developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies [...]
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My webOS Experience and Thoughts- Verizon Wireless Palm Pre Plus/Pixi Plus
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by John.
I was lucky enough to get my hands on both a Pre Plus and a Pixi Plus on Verizon Wireless for a few weeks. During this time I used them as if they were my main device, really giving them a chance to win my heart (see above). Could they do it? How do they [...]
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webOS 1.4 Now Available To Verizon Wireless Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Users
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by John.
After an extra day of waiting Verizon Wireless Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus users can now download and install the latest webOS update. Version 1.4 of webOS adds some great additions to the webOS line. You can get the full run down on Palm’s support site.
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Sprint Makes webOS 1.4 Available.. Verizon Users Still Waiting
Posted on 27. Feb, 2010 by John.
After the slip up in the Sprint forums about the webOS 1.4 update everyone knew what was coming. Well Sprint went ahead and made it official along with O2. There is still no word on when Verizon will receive the update, Palm had promised it would be on all devices in February so time is [...]
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Sprint To Release WebOS 1.4 Update On 2/26 Says Sprint Forum
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by John.
(Update: Sprint took down the forum, but we have the screen shot.) My friend @obigeorge just sent me a link to a post in the Sprint Forums which lays out the details of their WebOS 1.4 update. According to the forum post by a Sprint Admin the update will roll out tomorrow night to both [...]
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Yet another new smartphone OS… where is RIM?
Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by John.
With the Windows Phone 7 series announcement from Microsoft today, I got to thinking about the smartphone landscape and how RIM is falling further and further behind. Now don’t get me wrong, RIM still makes the best smartphone on the market in my opinion and I would not give up my Bold. From a hardware [...]
