Don’t expect anything awesome (like “new features” for example), but Pre and Pixi owners are getting a minor boost today in the form of webOS 1.3.5.1, being pushed out to handsets as we write this. The ultra-minor “.1″ on the end there portends the cold, hard reality here, which is that the new ROM does nothing but fix one absolutely critical bug that couldn’t wait for the next major release: the unceremonious clearing of all calendar events after syncing to an Exchange account
Phones Review Palm Pre touchscreen smartphone now available for $79.99 at Amazon Mobile Burn Sprint's Palm Pre smartphone has been significantly reduced in price at some third-party retailers, including Amazon.com, Engadget Mobile reports.
A Europe with a Yahoo-free webOS isn’t a Europe we’d ever want to live in — it’s just not right — and happily we won’t have to, because that shiny new version 1.3.1 that dropped in concert with the Pixi launch a few days ago is on the way to the Old World. Palm’s official blog reports that customers on the Pre’s official carriers in Ireland, Germany, Spain, and the UK can expect 1.3.1 “soon,” and thanks to the magic of over-the-air firmware delivery, users should have little more to do than sit on their rears and wait for the goodness to come to them on a wireless silver platter
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint , webOS Start placing your bets folks,’cause it now looks like its almost certainly no longer a question “if” the Palm Pixi will drop to a free-on-contract price, but “when?” The latest stop on the saga is none other than Amazon, which is now offering the webOS-based phone for a mere $24.99 with a service plan, beating Walmart’s already bargain price by a full five dollars — which should be just enough to let you buy a second Pixi next month at the rate things are going. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Palm Pixi one step closer to free, now $25 on Amazon originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
New Facebook App For Pre , Pixi Uninspires MocoNews Facebook has released its first official app for the Palm (NSDQ: PALM ) Pre and Pixi, but as Engadget Mobile reports, users may be underwhelmed by its …
Facebook has released its first official app for the Palm Pre and Pixi, but as Engadget Mobile reports, users may be underwhelmed by its functionality.
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: Nokia , Palm , webOS We’ve been around this rumor pretty much since Palm started looking competitive again, so take it for what you will — but a bunch of fat cats down on Wall Street have been going ape today over renewed “chatter” that Nokia might be taking an interest in acquiring Palm. Palm’s share prices are up well over 5 percent on the day, though we wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if there was some behind-the-scenes manipulation going on here — an acquisition would make less sense now than ever with suitors on the hook for $2 billion or more, a hefty sum even for a giant like Nokia, never mind the fact that they’ve still got two smartphone platforms of their own in the mix
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , GSM Remember that FCC filing for a GSM-loving North American Palm Pre ? Looks like the mystery’s been solved, Encyclopedia Brown, and our culprit is just south of the border. As previously rumored , Mexico’s Telcel will get the Pre, SIM card slot and all.
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint , EV-DO , CDMA , webOS At $100, the underpowered Pixi doesn’t look like a great value against its bigger, older brother — but at the $30 Walmart is charging through its partner LetsTalk, the game changes a bit, doesn’t it? Sure, $70 isn’t that huge of a difference quantitatively, but emotionally, $30 is basically an overpriced meal or two — and considering the old adage of “a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips,” wouldn’t you just rather have webOS? We’ve heard of some bad experiences with LetsTalk rebates in the past, but in this case, it’s just an instant discount, so it seems like it could be a no-brainer for on-the-fencers.
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint , EV-DO , CDMA , webOS Palm’s second-ever webOS device has just landed at Engadget HQ, and naturally we put it through the paces to bring you the low-down.
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint Oop, looks like the crew at WireFly didn’t get the memo on the Sprint Palm Pixi launch — they’ve gone ahead and posted up an unboxing video a week ahead of official availability on the 15th .
Filed under: Peripherals , RIM , BlackBerry OS We heard it’d be here in mid-Q4, and sure enough, it’s here .
Filed under: Software , Palm , webOS Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn’t — but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new model, as PreCentral observes
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint , EV-DO , CDMA , webOS Just as we’d heard earlier this morning , today’s the day that Palm and Sprint come clean with their undercover plans for the former’s second-ever webOS device. The Pixi , which we toyed with back on our first Engadget Show , is slated to hit Sprint stores, Best Buy, RadioShack and select Walmart locations on November 15th for $99.99, but that’s after a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate that you’ll be waiting ages for.
