Mobiles reviews - palm

Palm posts $43 million Q4 loss despite increased revenue

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:34:42 +0000

This sounds all too familiar. Like Helio's inability to turn a profit despite increasing their cash inflow, Palm has posted their Q4 earnings to disappointing effect. Palm highlighted the fact that their revenue was up 29%, based on smartphones sales of 968,000 units totaling $296.2 million. But, it wasn't enough to hide the fact that the [...]

Another Palm Treo 800w leak

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:39:56 +0000

How much do you love blurry spy-shots of not-yet-final mobile phones? We do too. The latest peak of Palm's upcoming flagship Palm Treo 800w comes to us as in-hand and comparison shots. We can see that the Palm Treo 800w is a test-model with a non-final paint scheme. The tester serial number also looks like it [...]

Cellspin brings mobile blogging to Palm OS! Audio, video, pictures, and text posting with ease

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:19:32 +0000

The ability to blog on-the-go is at once a blessing and a curse. Mobile blogging (or, moblogging, as it were) opens up so much in the way of productivity, but it also puts a kibosh on all "away from the computer" excuses. Double-edged swords like this are commonplace in the mobile space. With the Palm Centro [...]

Palm announces unlocked Palm Centro for the contract-wary, Google Maps My Location for Palm Centro

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:18:30 +0000

Long-term contracts and carrier-locked handsets are almost a fact of life for many in the US. Sure, Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T have all picked up a Palm Centro to complement their portfolio of smartphones, but the Big Three US wireless carriers are going to want you to sign up for a 2-year stint. For those of [...]

Palm Treo 800w launch date confirmed - July 13 on Sprint

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:35:05 +0000

With the summer wireless-hardware-blockbuster set to give eager mobile enthusiasts a new wave of high-end smartphones to drool over, we've got the latest launch date details on the much-anticipated (for some, anyway) Palm Treo 800w on Sprint. An alleged inventory sheet has been posted up on HowardForums, indicating that the Sprint Palm Treo 800w will drop [...]

Palm Centro boosts Palm marketshare, RIM sees BlackBerry market share rise, Apple loses in iPhone market

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:02:12 +0000

Just as we're getting ready to write-off the aging Palm OS and make room in our hearts for the next-generation Palm OS, Palm goes and regains some lost ground in the smartphone market. Palm has apparently seen its smartphone market-share rise to 13.4%, up from 7.9% in Q4 2007. The popular Palm Centro is credited for [...]

Palm CEO Ed Colligan talks up Linux-based Palm OS 2.0 - Nova

Thu, 29 May 2008 23:28:42 +0000

If you ask us, we're done listening to Palm just talking about their Palm OS 2.0. We want to see the Linux-based revamp to the so-old-it's-senile Palm OS before Palm's mobile platform fades from our radar. In an effort to keep us all interested in Palm's overhauled mobile OS, the company's CEO, Ed Colligan, talked up [...]

Palm Treo 850 specifications

Tue, 27 May 2008 23:24:42 +0000

Fans of Palm's Treo lineup of smartphones are no doubt waiting on the edge of their seats for Palm to go live with the next-generation Treo lineup. And, from the looks of the leaked and in-the-wild pictures we've seen of the fresh, new wares, it's not hard to see why. The slimmer, sleeker, and more [...]

Palm Treo 800w out and about in the wild - more live pictures

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:04:00 +0000

With Palm's fortunes having been boosted with their popular Palm Centro handsets aimed at the decidedly dressed-down consumer market, Palm fans have been waiting on the ailing manufacturer to release their next-generation business-oriented smartphone. The Palm Treo 800w has been pictured in the wild, in all its Centro-esque keyboarding glory. Boy Genius managed to score a [...]

Telstra brings Palm Centro to Australia

Wed, 21 May 2008 08:34:12 +0000

Telstra is bringing the hugely popular Centro smartphone to Australia. Already sold in one million units, the Centro is bringing all the power of a smartphone in a small, yet somewhat stylish packing — all with the full QWERTY keyboard. It packs a camera, Bluetooth connectivity, memory expansion slot, and users can further expand Centro's [...]

Palm Treo 800w caught in wild

Fri, 16 May 2008 08:07:34 +0000

Here's how the upcoming Palm Treo 800w looks like. As you can see from the image above, it combines the Treo's keyboard with Centro-like main controls. The screen is 320×320 pixels, and there's also WiFi, EV-DO Rev. A, GPS, Bluetooth, and microUSB plug on board. Windows Mobile 6.1 will apparently be running the show. Now, [...]

Sprint Palm Treo 800w to sport Internet Explorer 7.11?

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:28:31 +0000

Details on unreleased handsets sometimes pop up in some unlikely places. The Sprint Palm Treo 800w is slated to release in a couple months, but that apparently has stopped a user from testing their own Palm Treo 800w on DSL Reports' website. The user-agent data shows that the bandwidth tester was using a Palm Treo 800w [...]

Palm Skywriter/Drucker in the works as another Windows Mobile device from Palm?

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:16:19 +0000

With the Palm Treo 800w getting prepped to be released as the latest Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device from flagging handset manufacturer Palm, there's not much else that Palm Treo fans are looking forward to. But, that might all change with this latest report from TamsPPC that Palm has opened up Windows Mobile development access to [...]

Sprint Treo 800w launch date and details

Tue, 06 May 2008 02:06:15 +0000

So, with the HTC Touch Diamond and Raphael set to complement the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 in the high-end smartphone market (not to mention the 3G iPhone's impending launch later this year), Palm's planning to throw their Palm Treo 800w into the mix. Palm's efforts to revive their tired product lineup started with the popular [...]

Palm Foleo to resurrect with WiMAX connectivity?

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:44:57 +0000

There's a chance Palm will revive its "mobile companion" Foleo. According to The Register, the Treo maker could release the discontinued device with WiMAX radio to make it work with Sprint's XOHM network. Apparently, Palm has recently invited beta testers which are at the same time existing smartphone owners to test an "innovative new product." I [...]