Monthly Archives: July 2010

By: , 7/19/2010 9:42 am | 7 comments
summertour1

The Palm Summer Tour is continuing all across North America until September. They are giving away 10 Palm Pre Plus smartphones a day along with other goodies such as free shirts, cases and lip balm (aka Palm Balm)! This weekend they …

Read More

By: , 7/18/2010 4:26 pm | 19 comments
sr71-1-281x300

Are you interested in really pushing the upper-limit of speed on your Palm Pre? Have you tried the F105 Thunderchief Kernel, and thought that it was still just not fast enough for you? Then maybe the newest …

Read More

By: , 7/16/2010 11:54 pm | 10 comments

Well, it’s a bit later than we all expected, but Palm’s PDK Hot Apps competition has begun, and will run through September 3oth. With this play to entice developers to port their iPhone apps to webOS will hopefully result …

Read More

By: , 7/16/2010 10:33 am | 20 comments

By now, unless you have living under a rock for the last few weeks, you know about the dreaded “grip-of-death” issue with the new iPhone 4. Apple is even holding a press conference today to address the issue. …

Read More

By: , 7/16/2010 10:14 am | 0 comments
webOSRadio-Logo

This week we are lovin’ on the apps. We finally learn to type, eat some planets, pop some caps, and even check out some awesome homebrew goodies.

We also cover a few of the news stories of the day and …

Read More

By: , 7/15/2010 4:18 pm | 3 comments

Wow…here is a little gem I wasn’t expecting today. Business Insider reports on some juicy details we didn’t have before about the Palm bidding wars. Earlier we had reported that several companies were fighting over Palm once the bidding …

Read More

By: , 7/15/2010 7:48 am | 2 comments

“Doubling down” on webOS seems to have a way of shifting priorities for HP, doesn’t it? We just told you guys about how HP is no longer a launch partner for Windows Phone 7.  Here’s another not-so-surprising tidbit:  according …

Read More

By: , 7/15/2010 12:30 am | 12 comments

So we reported the other day that webOS 1.4.5 was possibly delayed due to a big permissions error with the new jailing of PDK apps. It did look like Palm was fully aware of the this issue, and …

Read More

By: , 7/15/2010 12:05 am | 1 comment

According to a smartphone survey conducted by Changewave, Palm is tied in 3rd place with Motorola, trailing behind Apple and HTC, in Cell Phone satisfaction, with 34% of Palm owners reporting they were ”very satisfied” with their phone. That’s not a terrible figure, considering that …

Read More

By: , 7/14/2010 10:39 pm | 8 comments

This news comes as little surprise to many of us, but it’s pretty clear that HP is no longer a hardware partner for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. MobileTechWorld made this conclusion after watching Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer …

Read More

By: , 7/14/2010 9:33 pm | 16 comments

According to reports in PreCentral’s forum webOS 1.4.5 has arrived for those on O2 in the UK.  It looks like this version is the same as was released earlier for other carriers in Europe and does not contain a …

Read More

By: , 7/14/2010 6:26 pm | 1 comment

HP has certainly been on a spending spree. After spending $1.2 Billion on Palm, they bought the music streaming service Melodeo. This week’s acquisition by HP-owned Snapfish (Yeah. HP owns them too!), is Motionbox.

Motionbox originally started out …

Read More