Sprint Palm Pixi price and release date announced: $99.99 starting November 15
Sprint and Palm have just announced that the Palm Pixi (the world’s second webOS smartphone) would be available in the US starting November 15.
The price of Palm Pixi will be a rather attractive one: $99.99 with a 2-yr contract agreement, after a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate.
Customers will be able to buy [...]
Palm gives away 25 free Pixi smartphones
Although it didn’t provide an exact release date for the Pixi, Palm has recently announced that it would give away 25 Pixi smartphones sometime later this year “to help celebrate the arrival of this sleek and stylish new webOS phone.”
To enter the Pixi contest (as well as to find out when the handset will become [...]
Palm Pre to debut in Spain on October 14 through Movistar
Palm and Telefonica have announced that the Palm Pre is ready to hit Spain starting October 14. The webOS smartphone will be sold via Telefonica’s Movistar, the largest Spanish mobile carrier (with more than 23 million customers).
Depending on the data plan you choose, you can get Movistar’s Palm Pre even for free.
The Pre (Palm’s first [...]
GSM Palm Pixi confirmed, still not official
Announced back in September only in CDMA flavor, the webOS-powered Palm Pixi has a GSM version too, which has just made an appearance in Vietnam.
Spotted over at Tinhte, the GSM Pixi obviously has a SIM slot, and it looks like it runs on an EDGE network (hopefully, it has 3G as well).
Unsurprisingly, the design of [...]
Palm Ring P, Samsung F839, C6112 and E1390B coming soon
Palm is readying a new smartphone named (or codenamed) Palm Ring P.
Unfortunately, we have almost no other details about the handset, except for the fact that, according to the Bluetooth SIG, it features Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and EDR. However, the Palm Ring P is almost certainly a webOS smartphone, since Palm announced that it’s [...]
Palm launches webOS 1.2
Two months after webOS 1.1, Palm has now released webOS 1.2, which comes with even more new features than the previous version.
For example, you can now purchase app from the App Catalog by entering your credit card info via the Preferences & Accounts menu. Also, previously purchased but deleted apps can be downloaded and reinstalled [...]
Palm Pre officially coming to O2 UK on October 16
O2 UK has finally announced the release date of Palm Pre: October 16.
Already on sale in the US and Canada, the webOS smartphone will be available directly from O2 (in stores or online), as well as from Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U and various O2 partners.
O2 subscribers who opt for a 24-month contract, or an 18-month contract [...]
Palm offers more shares for sale; Nokia interested in buying?
Palm has just announced that its public offering of common stock has been increased to 20,000,000 shares, at a price of $16.25 per share.
Palm expects to receive net proceeds of about $313.1 from the shares’ sale. The Sunnyvale-based smartphone maker says that it wants to use the money “for working capital and general corporate purposes”.
Interestingly, [...]
Palm announces Q1 FY 2010 results, says goodbye to Windows Mobile
Palm has unveiled its results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010 (ended August 28), reporting total revenues of $68.0 million and a gross profit of $2.8) million.
However, on a GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) basis, the company reported a net loss of $164.5 million for the quarter in question.
The Sunnyvale-based handset maker sold [...]
Unlocked Palm Pre on pre-order in the UK
We already know that O2 will launch the Palm Pre in the UK, but we don’t know when exactly – “in time for the holidays” is a pretty vague statement.
Well, if you’re eager to get your hands on the Pre and want to have it unlocked, some UK retailers have started to take pre-orders for [...]