Palm Pre - SlashGear

Posts Tagged ‘Palm Pre’

Palm Pre’s OS 1.2 Gets Leaked and Pictured

By Evan Selleck on Friday, Sep 4th 2009 No Comments

It's about time the Pre got a hearty leak of its own. And this is a doozy, for all the Pre owners out there aching for an update of some kind. It looks like a lucky member of PreCentral's forums caught a lucky break, when it came to rebooting his phone to a factory standard setting. When the device turned on, he immediately found something pretty strange. The phone had automatically installed webOS 1.2 for him.

Continued »

Palm Set to Release First Quarter 2010 Earning Report on September 17

By Evan Selleck on Wednesday, Sep 2nd 2009 No Comments

Everyone involved with the Pre, from analysts, to consumers, to even employees of Palm who aren't exactly in the know, have been anxiously waiting to see the results from the Pre's launch back in June. Was it a success? A failure? Did it make a splash at all? And, perhaps most importantly, how did it stack up to the competition? It looks like we might actually have a real shot at finding out, coming up in about two weeks.

Continued »

An iPhone Arms-Race to Nowhere

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 31st 2009 4 Comments

iphone 3g In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, there is a line from the Red Queen, in which she states, “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” In evolution, this is a theory that is also known as an “arms race to nowhere”, in which two different species evolve in tandem, one after the other, in an infinite loop. The reason, is because as one system evolves, then the other must evolve with it, just to keep pace.

And so the system is unending and essential for the survival of a species.

It’s no different in the technology ecosystem. In fact, it’s a lot more evident there, as we can see the fruits of these evolutionary developments as clear as day. We watched as the iPhone became the iPhone 3G, and while it may not have been leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessor in a lot of ways, we witnessed the 3G become the 3GS. And in turn, we saw almost every other major phone manufacturer develop phones to counter the iPhone. You’ve heard of them: the mythical iPhone killer.

Continued »

Verizon leak tips Palm P101 and P121: Pre and Eos?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 28th 2009 No Comments

Listings for several new devices have appeared in Verizon’s inventory database and been leaked courtesy of a phoneArena tipster. While the handsets include the BlackBerry Storm 2, HTC Touch Pro2 (XV6875) and Samsung Omnia II, all of which we’ve known for some time will be arriving on the network, also mentioned are the Palm P101 and Palm P121.

palm p121 verizon leak 540x405

Continued »

Palm Pre lands on Bell Mobility in Canada

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 27th 2009 No Comments

Palm and Bell Mobility have been teasing our Canadian cousins for weeks now, but the webOS smartphone has finally arrived. The Bell Palm Pre is priced at CA$199.95 with a new three-year contract, and delivers the same EVDO Rev.A connectivity, slide-out QWERTY keyboard and capacitive touchscreen as the Sprint US model.

bell mobility palm pre 540x264

Continued »

Palm Pre Gets More Advertisement Up North

By Evan Selleck on Monday, Aug 24th 2009 No Comments

So back when the Pre was launching on the Sprint Network here in the states, one of the biggest gripes regarding that launch was the fact that neither Sprint nor Palm was doing one of the major things in business: advertising. Sure, the Pre did healthy numbers in its launch, but with a little bit more advertising they could have been great. And it looks like Bell Mobility is thinking the same way. We've already seen some of the commercials that Bell is releasing regarding Palm's baby, but now it's getting some physical goodness as well, and that's never too good to pass up.

Continued »

Palm Cares About Gaming on the Pre

By Evan Selleck on Monday, Aug 17th 2009 No Comments

Right now, Palm’s Pre isn’t quite a gaming powerhouse. Actually, it’s not at all, and for a lot of people, that’s something they wish would be alleviated, and soon. When a phone like the Pre releases in the market against the likes of the iPhone, it’s almost essential that the Pre’s media abilities come shining through at some point. And it looks like Palm is setting up to show that the Pre is capable of gaming, too. Or, something pretty close.

Palm OS

Continued »

Palm Pre Starts To Get More Virtual With Its Keyboard

By Evan Selleck on Friday, Aug 14th 2009 No Comments

If you're one of the lucky owners of a Palm Pre, but you're wishing that you had a little bit more to type with than that relatively cramped physical keyboard, then you'll be happy to know some hard working developers are on the right path to bring you over some onscreen goodness. And, unlike the SSH input method displayed a couple months back, this keyboard looks like it might be usable very soon.

Continued »

Palm Banhammers a Pre Theme for Android

By Evan Selleck on Wednesday, Aug 12th 2009 No Comments

Are you an Android-lover? Are you still touting around your trusty G1, or even moved onto the physical keyboard-less Magic or Hero? And maybe someone you know has that other Linux-based Operating System, known as WebOS, and you can’t help but want some of that action for yourself. Well, you could have gotten a little closer with a simple theme called (you guessed it) “Palm Pre Android Theme”, which borrowed the icons, wallpapers, and general mojo directly from WebOS.

Continued »

Update: Palm Pre Keeps An Eye On You

By Evan Selleck on Wednesday, Aug 12th 2009 No Comments

It looks like Palm is up to no good, at least if you’re one to want some kind of security and privacy when going about your every day agenda. Earlier today, developer Joey Hess did some digging around within the WebOS code that transmits information back to Palm, trying to find out what exactly Palm discerned from this information, and what he found isn’t that promising.

big brother