AT&T has finally sent out the rundown on when (and for how much) its customers will be able to saddle themselves with a Pre Plus and matching two-year contract, and the wait isn’t a long one: it launches this coming Sunday, May 16, just as we’d expected .
Don’t tell us we didn’t try. In spite of all our pleading for HTC to acquire the troubled Palm, Inc.
In the face of a near-constant stream of buyout rumors the past couple weeks, Palm boss Jon Rubinstein is holding the line he’s held ever since he’s taken the helm — well most of the line, anyway. In a chat with Financial Times today, the CEO said that he still believes that “Palm can survive as an independent company” and that he’s got a plan to get the company spitting black ink rather than red, but that “if someone comes to the board with a reasonable offer of course it’s something [they'd] have to consider,” which isn’t anything materially different than he’s said in the past — it’s just good business sense, and it’s a very cautiously-worded soundbite
No one really knows exactly what’s going on inside the walls of Palm HQ this week — whether the company will sink or swim is perhaps a bigger question right now than it has been since its rebirth last year, and if it does swim, whether it remains independent is another matter altogether.
Gadgetell: Palm Pre Plus continues to drop in price, soon it may be free NewsFactor Network For good or bad, or more accurately for good and bad the Palm Pre Plus has been continuing on its path toward being a free phone. And judging from how fast … Wireless Verizon: Verizon Kills Mail-in rebates for Palm Phones ShutterVoice: Breaking News for Personal Technology & IT all 2 news articles
According to a little late night tweet from Palm — and the update screen on our device — the stacked new webOS 1.4 update is making its way out into the world for the company’s Verizon-flavored devices. That’s right, Plussers — video recording (and editing) is just a small download away
Oh boy. Research firm OTR Global is making some waves today with a report claiming that Palm ordered all Pre and Pixi manufacturing to be halted, but apparently they didn’t look at a calendar — or, you know, call Palm.
After a brief private testing period, Palm’s interesting Ares software development package has made its way into a public beta phase.
We don’t know just how quickly Palm (or Elevation Partners, for that matter) thought it’d become profitable following the release of webOS , but it’s not there quite yet — the company is in the process of outing its earnings for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 right now, and in a word, they’re still in the red. The good news is that it’s a marked improvement from last quarter — they’ve gone from a $164.5M GAAP net loss to an $85.4M one this time around. On a non-GAAP gross basis, they actually made $5.5M, which is up from $2.8M a quarter earlier
Filed under: Palm , Sprint , CDMA , webOS webOS 1.3.1 was always destined to come alongside the launch of the Pixi , but it’s surprised us by showing its face a day early. No app catalog bombshells here, but there are a slew of more minor fixes and updates that should make users experience a great deal smoother.
Filed under: Palm , O2 , GSM , Announcements , webOS We knew it was coming , and here it is — the glorious first showing of the Palm Pre in its GSM garb. From today, our Deutsch comrades can grab a Pre and do whatever they want to do to it, courtesy of O2, its exclusive German supplier. The device will set you back €481 without contract, with the O2 My Handy option letting you finance it via 24 monthly payments of €20.
Filed under: Handsets , Palm The tips are flooding in — webOS 1.2.0 has just been released, and downloads are starting all over. Obviously the big new features is support for app purchases in the Catalog, but we’ve heard there are a ton of little fixes and improvements in addition — we’re checking it out now, let us know how it goes for you in comments! Update: We haven’t tested it yet, but the Media Sync section of the release notes doesn’t make any mention of restoring iTunes compatibility — looks like Palm’s not going to poke at the USB-IF any more than it has to.
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint , EV-DO , CDMA , webOS Nothing like the announcement of a new webOS device to spur a price drop on the first, is there? The Palm Pre — which has held steady at the $199.99 on-contract price it launched at back in June — has finally taken a rumored $50 dip down to $149.99
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint We were expecting a Pre price cut today , but it looks like Sprint has slightly different plans — instead of lowering the outright price of the handset, the carrier is offering new Pre customers a $100 service credit if they port a number from a different carrier. Yeah, that’s a little odd — especially since the credit is spread out over three months, instead of applied all in one go.
Filed under: Software Who said Microsoft’s mobile strategy has to be limited to Windows Mobile? Redmond has just announced OneApp , a comprehensive framework for delivering apps on a variety of featurephones — largely in emerging markets — where processor horsepower and memory are both at a premium.
