Palm’s latest gets a big hand at CES
GMSV — If Palm really is down to its last chance to stay competitive in the smartphone market, it has to be encouraged by the initial reactions to its new iPhone challenger, the Pre , and new software platform, WebOS, both introduced today at the Consumer Electronics Show. Applause levels for the presentation were reported as “ ...

Palm To Price Itself Into Oblivion?
Digital Daily — ... . Because despite Colligan’s claims of a “signifigantly better product,” Palm hasn’t raised the smartphone bar much, if at all, with the Pre. In fact, the device is as noteworthy for the features it doesn’t include as those it does. Absent from today’s grand unveiling was any mention of video. Also missing, a rival to Apple’s App Store and the robust developer-consumer ecosystem it’s created around the iPhone and iPod Touch. Even Google’s Android OS debuted with that. And the name, well, “Pre” isn’t likely ...

Palm comes back with a bang: shows Pre at CES
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Palm's press conference at CES today achieved what most of us would have considered impossible a year ago: it created more interest than Apple's Macworld keynote. Hot topic of conversation on the interweb tubes right now is the Palm Pre smartphone, and its new webOS operating system. ...

CES: Palm hoping its Pre smartphone isn't postscript
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Palm has an exclusive deal for the Pre with Sprint, which is now taking preorders online. But consumers will have to wait to get their hands on one. Palm expects the device to hit the market sometime in the first half of the year. ...

News: Palm introduces iPhone competitor Pre
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — image Palm today introduced its latest handset, named the Pre . Featuring a 3.1-inch, 480x320 touchscreen, a dedicated gesture area below the display, a vertical slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and more, the device is aimed at the same market as the iPhone. Other technical features include high-speed wireless (EV-DO Rev. A or HSDPA, depending on the model and carrier), GPS, Wi-Fi, a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash, 3.5mm headphone jack, microUSB connector, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP, 8GB of internal storage, an accelerometer, ambient light and proximity sensors, a removable ...

Can Pre Save Palm From Being Put Out to Pasture? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... , a brand-new web-centric mobile operating system, and the Palm Pre, its first WebOS-powered device. With this twin release of seemingly cutting edge products, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm hopes to stage a comeback in the mobile business. ...

More shots of the Palm Pre
Gadgetell — ... It’s only been a few hours since the Palm press conference and the buzz is building surrounding their new handset (Palm Pre) and operating system (webOS).  The company just posted some press photos, so hit the gallery below and let us know what you think. Product [Palm Pre] Full Story » | Written by Doug Berger for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article » ...

Palm gets a big hand at CES
TechBlog — ... off for dead. The company that pioneered the affordable PDA, and at one point was a major smartphone player, had withered to a ghost of its formal self. That may have changed Thursday, when Palm launched at a packed news conference its new operating system and a snazzy new phone that will run it. The webOS will be at the heart of the new Palm Pre , and early reviews are encouraging. Has Palm snatched itself from the grave? Peter Ha, who writes for the gadget blog CrunchGear, ...

Palm Pre “Nova-based Touch Phone Announced
D' Technology Weblog — ... Palm Pre — running the all new Palm WebOS “Nova”. Features include, but not limited are: Sprint-bound EVDO Rev A; GPS; 8 GB storage; 802.11b/g WiFi; Slideout QWERTY keyboard; 3.1&Prime inch touchscreen, 320×480 display; Accelerometer, Proximity, and Ambient light sensors; 3.5mm jack; Removable battery; 4.8 ounces; MicroUSB connector; Mass storage support. More info: Palm Pre ...

CES 2009: Day 3 Summary
Zatz Not Funny! — ... All day, buzz swirled about Palm’s new device and OS announcement - reminiscent of the (Macworld) iPhone introduction at CES 2007. Of course, it’s yet to be seen if this energy and hype will translate into a successful product launch and sales. ( ...

CES Video: Palm Pre Hands-On with Joel and Brownlee, post-review huddle with Ars Technica
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... for a post-game analysis. Verdict seems to be that if this is Palm's "hail mary," it just might work. The Pre seems pretty sweet. Here's the Pre product page at palm.com. ...

Gadgets at CES Video: Palm Pre Hands-On with Joel and Brownlee, review huddle with Ars Technica
Boing Boing — ... for a post-game analysis. Verdict seems to be that if this is Palm's "hail mary," it just might work. The Pre seems pretty sweet. Here's the Pre product page at palm.com. ...

Palm surprises with Pre smartphone running new webOS
AppleInsider — ... lives to fight another day." Wolf sees Palm targeting the mobile phone customer who hasn't yet bought a smartphone but wants one. "Palm is not going after RIM in email or the iPhone in multimedia," he wrote. Predicting 1.25 million sales in FY2010, Wolf wrote, "The biggest initial negative is that the Palm Pre will only run on the fast fading Sprint network in the U.S." He allowed the 1.25 million estimate could be "dramatically" low if other carriers end up selling the phone. More information about webOS and the Pre is available from Palm . ...

Palm posts full pre announcement video
Gadgetell — ... some more about the newly announced Palm pre, you can now watch the entire announcement.  Palm has posted the video up on their site, and if you are at all interested in the pre, this should be worth your while.  Not only will you get to hear about it directly from Palm, but they also show some nice images of the phone and the OS.  Plus for a press conference, this was actually very nicely done, of course, having such a popular phone did not hurt either. Read [Palm] Watch [Palm] Full Story » | Written by ...

CES 2009: Day 5 Summary
Zatz Not Funny! — ... But, beyond discussing how quiet it was in Vegas, the Palm Pre was all the buzz and gave the show life. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to see it in person. But, through frequent conversation and ...

Ubergizmo's Best of CES 2009
Ubergizmo — ... year, although rumors have it that HTC is trying to catch up. Palm also had the best press event, closely followed by Samsung and Sony. Unlike iPhone-killer "duds" like the BlackBerry Storm and others, this is the first phone that can actually Challenge the iPhone on its turf. Challenges remain, such as getting developers, apps, app store but the foundation seems solid. Our Palm Pre live coverage @ CES Official event video from Palm (Flash, download), Product page   Permalink: Ubergizmo's Best of ...

Dean’s top ten picks for the best of CES
VentureBeat — It’s never easy to pick the top ten new products and technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show. This year, there were more than 20,000 product from 2,700 vendors across 1.8 million square feet of space. I saw every one of them. That’s right. And these are my picks for the best of the show, in order of preference. 1. The Palm Pre smartphone revived interest in the aging Palm platform. This phone, designed by a team formed by former Apple executive Jon Rubinstein, could help the company steal some mojo from Apple’s ...

CES 2009 Video: Palm Pre smartphone hands-on
T3.com All — ... even a slide-out QWERTY keyboard to lure those loyal BlackBerry patrons towards the Palm stable. There's plenty of innovation, including the convergence of email, text and IM into one handy screen, a pop up applications menu, magnetic charging and also Palm's own interpretation of Apple's multi-touch software. We were treated to a full demo of this corking new handset in Las Vegas so have a gander at the video report for the lowdown and our early verdict on the Palm Pre. Link: Palm ...

Sex and Electronics Part 2: Femme Den's Favorite Gadgets from CES
Fast Company - Technology — ... had intuitive solutions, but the P7 media player was confusing. Women are busy and don’t have the patience or interest to figure out non-intuitive product experiences. No-fuss and quick-to-learn solutions are great for both women and men, but especially women.              Palm Pre palmpre Good It seems like these ex-Apple designers responded to all the negatives from the iPhone in this new mobile device. They deliver on their message that users shouldn’t have to think about applications, that the phone thinks ahead and gives you just what you want from the phone. Here is ...

How Palm Pre Could Change the Game
louisgray.com — ... The Palm Pre has surprisingly gotten the gadget industry abuzz after being announced at CES this year, after the company had largely been given up for dead after seeing its leadership decimated. And they are working to ensure the buzz doesn't end up being a one week blip. Apparently, Sprint has been 'softening the ground' so to speak by giving Palm Centro owners a ...

Random Thoughts on the Upcoming Palm Pre
Top iPhone News — ... If you happened to miss the Pre’s unveiling at this year’s Computer Electronics Show (CES), it seems that the smartphone market just got a little more crowded with Palm’s most recent entry. ...

MobileTechRoundup 159: Great Taste, Less Filling! [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — MoTR 159 is 18:40 minutes long and is a 17.1 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: We kick off a new year with shorter, more focused shows! First up is a round-table on the new Palm Pre. Matt has a new phone with an OLED display, the Nokia N85. Unfortunately, we won’t see the ...

Random Thoughts on the Upcoming Palm Pre
Top iPhone News — ... If you happened to miss the Pre’s unveiling at this year’s Computer Electronics Show (CES), it seems that the smartphone market just got a little more crowded with Palm’s most recent entry. ...

New ‘Meet Pre’ Video Arrives From Palm
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... dinner… Check it out and you’ll see what I mean. WebOS does look very widgety/groovy as expected, and I really did dig the ‘accordion’ feature built-in to the Calendar app. Cool stuff. At any rate, check it out and let me know what you think. I know I’ll be waiting in line for one of these once it becomes available in my area. Of course, for more information on the Pre and to sign up for email updates, hit up Palm. [Via: Engadget] Related News from ...

Ouch.. Palm has one rough Q3
Krunker — ... – down 72 percent from the year-ago quarter on sales of 482,000 units (down 42 percent year over year). These are certainly tough times for Palm. They’re in the midst of rolling to an entire new OS and smartphone platform yet they still have a large inventory of existing smartphone devices to sell. Combine that with abysmal economic climate and customers waiting for the new Pre, it’s really not that surprising to see dismal numbers. Here’s hoping the new webOS and Palm Pre product line will bring growth back to the company. [Check it out] No ...

Palm's big April 1st announcements center on developers
Obsessable News Feed — ... Palm has posted a new video demonstrating the Pandora and Fandango applications on the Pre (to see the video, go to Palm's site and click on the "Meet Pre" graphic in the first section and choose "This Weekend"; or you can see the video embedded below via YouTube). Additionally, Palm announced that the Palm Pre will support emulation of Palm OS applications via a Palm OS emulator application from third-party developer MotionApps, so you may just be able to run all those legacy apps that you own from previous Palm devices on the Pre. ...

Unboxing the Palm Pre
The Next Web — The Palm Pre, regularly described as ‘The iPhone killer’, isn’t officially available until June 7 but we did find the ‘unboxing video’ of this exciting new device. What we can conclude from watching this video: - The device looks cool - Either her hands are really small or the Palm Pre is really big - The packaging is nicer then most gadget’s but not as cool as Apple’s packaging - This could very well be a fake unboxing video - There are Palm Pre’s out there! What we ...

Palm Pre sells for $199.99 official
I4U News — ... The big announcement by Sprint and Palm for today has come through. Our update scanner just notified us about a change on the Palm Homepage. Sprint will offer the Palm Pre for $199.99 after $100 mail in rebate and qualifying 2 year service activation. The Palm Pre will launch on June 6th. June 6th is a Saturday and the Palm Pre launch is really taking place the weekend before the Apple WWDC 2009 conference, where we still expect to hear about a new iPhone. Via the Palm site . Posted on Tue, 19 May 2009 06:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr ...

Pre Day, June 6, is official...along with rebate pricing
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Palm's Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate (bad idea) and with a two-year contract on Sprint's Everything Data plan or Business Essentials with Messaging and Data plan. The Pre will also be sold online and at Best Buy, RadioShack, and some Wal-mart stores (alongside iPhones). Accessories like the $69.99 TouchStone wireless charger will also be available at launch. As we mentioned, we think the rebate pricing is a really bad idea.  We should also mention that we are excited to ...

Palm Shows Off More webOS Features
Phone Scoop - Latest News — ... allowing users to drag and drop files directly onto the device. Palm also revealed that Twitter has been built into the webOS search engine. Users start typing and the Pre will search the device for matching contacts, apps, the web, Google Maps, Wikipedia and now Twitter. Last, Palm provided a few more details about the App Catalog for webOS. App Catalog will be available on the Pre at launch, though it will be in beta form. Several applications will populate the catalog at launch. more info at Palm ...

Even More Palm Pre Today… iTunes Support, Verizon…
Mobility Site — ... a bit more on the Pre that hit the interwebz today… 1st off is a headline from Engadget. “ Verizon Wireless to carry Palm Pre, Storm 2 ” in about six months”. This is no big deal, judging by Palm’s history, it should be exclusive to Sprint for 3-6 months and then it will likely see every carrier. That’s just my guess, but the Engadget story cites a Rueters story telling us this. prepage Palm has put up a good site full of info to get your Palm Pre fix in too. Check it out here. pre-w-itunes iTunes Support? An article at Fortune states ...

The Palm Pre is an iPod? Yes, But We’ll See How Long That Lasts [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... The culmination of this was development of the Palm Pre. There are volumes of opinions and information on this device so I’m not getting into it here. It’s launching June 6 ...

The Palm Pre Revealed: The Technologizer Review
Technologizer — ... in a category of one, nearly two years after it first shipped. But maybe the way to truly rival the iPhone is to counterpunch. What if a phone ignored some of the iPhone’s most obvious virtues, choosing to zig where Apple zagged? What if it aimed to rival not the iPhone’s look and feel but its spectacular record of innovation? What if the overarching goal was to be a really good, really inventive next-generation smartphone? What, in other words, if it were Palm’s new Pre? Back at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Palm unveiled the ...

Roundup: Palm Pre gets positive early review
TechBlog — ... June 04, 2009 Roundup: Palm Pre gets positive early review preopenslider Palm's new Pre smartphone , which you may or may not be able to buy starting Saturday, gets reviewed by the usual lineup of top-tier tech writers today. The tone of the reviews is remarkably similar to that of the first iPhone, with the writers generally loving the device except for some serious flaws. Palm, which has struggled as the balance of power in the PDA/smartphone market has shifted, has a lot riding on the Pre. So does Sprint, which also is feeling the competitive heat and which has a period of ...

Why I Haven’t Bought a Palm Pre Yet [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Editor’s note: With this post we welcome Charles Hamilton to the WebWorkerDaily team. Charles is the founder and co-owner of CHCS.com Web Development in Seattle, where, since 1994, he has developed award-winning web sites that use technology to tell the stories of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and political candidates. I really, really want Palm’s new smartphone, the Pre, to be a success. The reviews so far have been mostly positive. I’m a happy owner of a Palm Treo 755p, which is ...

From Associate Writer to Palm Real Reviewer!
PalmAddicts — ... , a fact I credit substantially to the community I've been a part of here at PalmAddict as an Associate Writer, and the knowledge I've gained through reading the site. My new Palm Pre (which will be on loan for at least 6 months from Palm) is sitting in my kitchen, awaiting word from Palm that it has been activated, at which point I will be off! I hope to post many of my impressions here on PalmAddict, and would welcome your questions and thoughts. You can also follow my Pre-related comments on Twitter, where I'm ...

Apple: Report Latest iTunes Version Bars Palm Pre Sync
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... At the launch of the Pre, Palm had made a point of stressing that the device can sync with iTunes. The Palm web site says you can “use the Palm media sync feature to transfer your DRM-free iTunes music, videos, and photos to your Pre.” Or at least, you used to be able to do that. ...

Palm: Who Needs iTunes? How About PalmTunes!
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... Stating the obvious, Wu notes that this development is a “modest negative for PALM.” No kidding: on the Web, PALM still touts iTunes compatibility on its list of Pre features, although there is a footnote that says in very tiny print: “Compatible with iTunes v8.2. Compatibility with future versions not guaranteed.” The current version is 8.2.1. ...

Palm updates Palm Pre webOS software, "fixes" iTunes bork
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... webOS 1.1.0 for its Palm Pre devices today. Normally, this would elicit a collective "that's nice" from TUAW, but what makes this interesting is that according to the ...

Sprint Intros Palm Pixi & $70 Everything Plan
dailywireless.org — The Palm Pre now has a smaller, cheaper cousin, the Palm Pixi — sans Wi-Fi and GPS. The Pixi is the second webOS smart phone by Palm, and will be carried exclusively by Sprint. It will be available this holiday. Price has not been announced, but it’s expected to sell for around $99 (with a two year contract). The original Pre has also been reduced to $149 (with a two year contract). ...

Palm’s Quixotic Quest Continues
Technologizer — ... The company is unquestionably bursting at the seams with smart, talented folks; the Pre remains the iPhone’s most formidable competitor by far from the standpoint of user-interface sophistication. But I’m mystified by what it’s up to here. The company continues to tout iTunes compatibility as a major feature of the phone. But the convenience that the feature offers when it’s working is completely negated by the periods when it’s in limbo, and the general uncertainty of the whole idea. Whether you take Apple’s side or Palm’s or (like me) ...

Palm Restores iTunes Syncing To Pre
OhGizmo! — ... version of the WebOS software (1.2.1) “resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (9.0.1).” To make things even better, you can now also sync pictures as well. If I owned a Pre, I would no doubt be happy to have this functionality. However, Palm is really pushing it. How about instead of focusing on making your phone work with the competition’s software, you make your own? That would be too much effort, no doubt. Your move Apple. [ Palm ] VIA [ Mashable ] ...

Why the Times is Wrong to Be Bearish on Palm
Fast Company - Technology — ...  (above) makes this easy, but there's no ready analog for Android -- or any other smartphone platform, for that matter. Other features like combined messaging and layered calendars are similarly unrivaled. While Google and Apple tout the ability to do more, Palm is for people who want to do less. And there are a lot of those people. Point being: all three are great platforms for different users. (Below, Palm's centralized message conduit lets you switch between SMS, email, and IM.) ...

Must-have iPhone and iPod Touch Apps For Newbies [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... It’s WebWorkerDaily’s fault that I’ve bought an iPod touch (s aapl). (That’s my excuse, anyway.) As I looked at potential subjects to write about, I kept seeing cool apps, and I need to be able to test them, right? But why not buy an iPhone, or a Palm Pre, which I’d had my eye on for several months? The Pre seems to be a good phone, but it doesn’t yet have the apps that the iPhone does. And the monthly fees for Pre service are considerably higher than what I’m ...