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Palm Pre still en-route to Verizon says insider

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 28th 2009 1 Comment

After rumors late last week that Verizon had turned their collective noses up at the Palm Pre, put off by poor sales performance and a preference for RIM and Android, BGR is now reporting that the CDMA carrier will indeed be offering the webOS smartphone. Their unnamed source has apparently confirmed that the Pre is indeed headed to Verizon, though there's no word of an actual release date.

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Verizon Palm Pre plans scrapped?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 25th 2009 1 Comment

Since the Palm Pre was revealed to be – in its first incarnation – a CDMA handset, Verizon subscribers have wondered when (or even if) it might arrive on their network of choice. Despite leaks back in August suggesting that the handset was lining up to appear as soon as Sprint’s exclusivity agreement expired, the latest talk is that Verizon have decided not to support the Pre. While Palm and the carrier themselves have refused to comment, sources close to the negotiations suggest that Verizon’s focus on RIM and Motorola’s upcoming Android handset for the network have left them with little room for the Pre and webOS.

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$99.99 Palm Pre arrives on Amazon

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 25th 2009 No Comments

Start the day as you mean to go on: with a bargain. If you’ve been thinking of picking up a Palm Pre, but have shied away even from the recently reduced price of $149.99 on Sprint, then how does a sub-$100 Pre strike you?

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O2 Palm Pre launching October 16th from free [Updated]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 24th 2009 No Comments

O2 have just announced that they will be launching the Palm Pre in the UK on October 16th. The handset – the GSM version of the Sprint device that has been available in the US for several months now – will be priced between free and £96.89 ($159) depending on contract.

Update: O2 in Germany and Ireland will also get the Palm Pre on October 13th and 16th respectively. German pricing details here; Irish details after the cut.

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Full contract details after the cut

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Palm threatening unlocked GSM Pre retailers with legal action

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 18th 2009 1 Comment

Palm has been apparently been busy warning UK retailers that it is less than happy with pre-order pages for SIM-free versions of the Palm Pre, informing them that the webOS smartphone will only be available in locked form (presumably to O2, the company’s UK carrier partner). Our sibling site MyPre.com has been informed by one affected retailer that Palm’s legal team “requested” in no uncertain terms that they take down their listing, where the Pre had been tentatively offered for £450-500 ($737-819).

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Palm dump WinMo; Pre sales good but profits not

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 18th 2009 No Comments

Palm have announced that they will be dropping Windows Mobile for future devices and instead focussing on their own platform, webOS. The news was an unsurprising addition to the company’s latest financial results, which also revealed that while Pre sales were strong – Palm saw a 134-percent increase in Q1 FY2010 smartphone sales from Q4 2009 – they still saw GAAP losses of $164.5m.

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Nokia Maemo 5 Apparently Perfectly Acceptable For Carrier Customizations

By Evan Selleck on Friday, Sep 11th 2009 No Comments

It’s only been a day since we reported that Nokia was planning on keeping carrier branding as far away from the N900 and Maemo-enabled devices as possible, but it looks like all of that just changed. In a big way. And now, it seems that Nokia is taking a stand in the other direction, leaving us to wonder what the deal really is. Was our excitement misplaced? Or is Nokia just trying to calm the waters, before any real announcements regarding the upcoming N900’s release on carriers is released?

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gDial Pro Google Voice app hits Palm Pre, plus 9 other titles

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 11th 2009 1 Comment

We’ll never argue with more apps showing up for the Palm Pre – after all, they just pave the way for a software download frenzy on the Palm Pixi when that arrives later in 2009 – so we’re glad to hear of another two webOS titles fresh to the Palm Beta App Catalog. First up is gDial Pro, an app which can be used to access and manage your Google Voice account; second comes iLike Concerts, a tool which looks out for your preferred artists and flags up nearby performances.

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Palm Pre price slashed to $150

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 9th 2009 No Comments

In case you didn’t spot it among all the live shots of the Palm Pixi and our hands-on video, Sprint have dropped the price of the Palm Pre from $199.99 to $149.99, presuming you’re willing to sign up to a two-year contract. The first sticker cut the webOS smartphone has seen since its launch several months ago, the reduction suggests that Sprint are aiming for a roughly $99.99 tag for the Pixi when it launches later in the year.

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Palm Pixi powered by WebOS [Hands-on]

By Vincent Nguyen on Tuesday, Sep 8th 2009 No Comments

Rumors of Palm releasing a candybar phone with front-facing QWERTY keyboard have been around since the launch of the Palm Pre. Well, as of tonight the Pixi is no longer a rumor. Similar to the Palm Pre, Pixi is powered by WebOS and has a multi-touch capacitive display, 8GB of internal user storage memory, the same removable 1150 mAh battery and proximity sensor, among other things. However it squeezes all of that into an incredibly compact casing: just 111 x 55 x 10.85 mm, thinner than an iPhone 3GS.

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