Palm shares dip 25 percent after disappointing earnings call
Palm’s latest earnings call, in which the company announced a very disappointing $22-million loss during its fiscal Q3, has led to a 25% dip in shares. Palm stock in turn has dipped below $5 for the first time since the Palm Pre was first announced a bit over a year ago.
Morgan Joseph analyst Ilya Grozovsky’s [...]
Palm and O2 offer free 3D EA Mobile games for the Pre
When Palm officially unveiled the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for Verizon, it also announced 3D games support for its WebOS platform.
Now Palm UK offers three free 3D games from EA Mobile to anyone who owns or buys a Palm Pre with an O2 contract. The offer is available until the end of March.
The three [...]
Palm to make a WiMax smartphone for Sprint?
With Sprint getting ready to launch 4G / WiMax in many new US markets this year, some phone manufacturers are surely thinking about making WiMax hardware for the carrier.
Apart from HTC (which should launch the Supersonic Android phone), Palm may also introduce a WiMax handset via Sprint.
According to ComputerWorld, Kris Keilhack from PalmInfocenter says that [...]
One in six iPhone owners would buy an iPad, says AdMob report
AdMob (which now belongs to Google) has issued its January 2010 Mobile Metrics report, which contains lots of interesting details about the current mobile trends.
For example, 16% of iPhone users intend to buy an iPad in the future, while only 11% of WebOS users and 6% of Android users are interested in Apple’s new tablet [...]
Pixi-like Palm WebOS smartphone coming to T-Mobile USA?
We already know that AT&T might soon launch the Palm Pre, and it looks like T-Mobile US is also getting ready to introduce a WebOS smartphone.
Unlike AT&T, though, T-Mobile could launch a completely new Palm WebOS device.
According to BGR, the handset resembles the Palm Pixi, and T-Mobile could launch it quite soon – reportedly, the [...]
Palm halts Pre and Pixi production, but only until the end of February?
An OTR Global report issued just hours ago says that Palm has ordered Foxconn to halt production of CDMA Pre and Pre Plus smartphones (sold via Sprint and Verizon, respectively) during February.
Reportedly, different Taiwanese sources have confirmed this, “and nobody knows whether shipment will resume in March.”
Actually, it looks like someone knows – apparently, Palm [...]
Google Voice web app launched for iPhone, WebOS (video)
Google wanted to launch a Google Voice app for iPhone since last year, but Apple didn’t approve the application. Well, Goolge has found a way around the problem and today announced that Google Voice is available for iPhone (OS 3.0 or higher) and Palm WebOS, as a web-based (HTML5) application.
The new web app for iPhone [...]
Palm Pre Plus, Pixi Plus pricing announced by Verizon
Verizon has just announced the prices of Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus – its first WebOS smartphones, officially unveiled two weeks ago.
As expected, the prices are similar to the prices of Sprint’s Pre and Pixi: $149.99 and $99.99, respectively (both on contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate received “in the form of [...]
#CES 2010: Palm brings 3D games to webOS, opens developer program, promises Flash and video recording
While unveiling the upcoming availability of Pre Plus and Pixi Plus via Verizon, Palm has also announced that its webOS platform now supports 3D gaming.
As of today, seven 3D games are available via the Palm App Catalog, which currently has more than 1,000 webOS applications.
Currently compatible only with the Palm Pre, the new 3D games [...]
#CES 2010: Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus announced; Sprint users should be jealous
As expected, today Palm has officially unveiled the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for Verizon Wireless, the largest US mobile carrier.
There are no surprises when it comes to the features that the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus have: they’re similar to the original handsets (available at Sprint), save for the fact that the Pre Plus [...]