Amazon Selling Discounted Palm Pre
The Palm Pre carried by American wireless carrier Sprint just saw another price drop with third-party retailers with several stores, including Amazon.com, significantly lowering the Pre’s price tag since the release of the Pixi.
The Pre, Palm’s new flagship smartphone sporting a sleek design, large touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, has been dropped to only $79.99 [...]
Palm Adds iTune Syncing to webOS 1.2.1
Despite not including iTunes syncing in the webOS 1.2 update last Tuesday, Palm has released version 1.2.1 to include just that option today.
Functional with both the Palm Pre and the upcoming Palm Pixi, webOS 1.2.1 flies in the face of Apples efforts to eliminate media synchronization with iTunes 9.0.1 in offering that features, along with [...]
Palm Issues webOS 1.2 Update OTA
Palm has begun pushing the webOS 1.2 update over-the-air to users of their flagship Pre handsets. The update brings new functionality, improvements on existing features and several bug fixes.
Some notable increases to functionality include the ability to purchase and download via the App Catalog and download over-the-air from the Amazon MP3 store. The expected re-addition [...]
Palm Pre Sales Disappoint
After many months of hype followed by excellent reviews across the board, Palm is reporting that sales of its new flagship Pre device are much lower than originally anticipated. Palm shipped a total of 823,000 smartphones during its first quarter with an estimated 500,000 of those Pre devices. Those numbers are down sharply from both [...]
Palm Offers Synergy Details
In the wake of the hype surrounding the Pre, Palm has been releasing additional tidbits and today’s news offers new details on Synergy, the personal information system developed specifically for the new smartphone. Using the “cloud” concept, Synergy will have no central data sync point, allowing all fields to sync via major operating systems such [...]
