The guys from Tested.com performed rundown tests on five popular mobile phones to test if they lived up to manufacturers’ talk-time claims. They managed to make a humorous video in the process and found that all but one was came within +/- 10% of the manufacturers’ claims. The Samsung Captivate lasted 354 minutes (rated at [...]
HP introduced some nice new products today, all of which I got to check out in person during a briefing in San Francisco. I got all excited when I saw a couple of Palm reps milling around the briefing suite at the St. Regis in downtown San Francisco, but there were no new WebOS products [...]
New HP subsidiary, Palm, released the developer beta of the 2.0 version of their smartphone operating system webOS. The release is focused on what developers can do with it, not what consumers can, but a lot of cool features were revealed.
On HP’s earnings call yesterday, executive Todd Bradley announced that the company will ship a consumer slate running Windows ‘soon’ and a webOS Tablet in early 2011. HP’s been teasing us with its answer to the iPad all year long, to a point where anticipation is transitioning to yawns. For the first several months of [...]
There have been a ton of rumors about what HP plans on doing with WebOS and it looks like we’ll soon have some answers.Rahul Sood, an HP executive and former CEO of Voodoo, wrote up his thoughts on WebOS over at HP’s Next Bench blog. Not surprisingly, he had a lot of good things to [...]
CNBC’s Tech Check reports that HP will use webOS exclusively when they step into the current smartphone market. This must surely come as a surprise to everyone who thought they were going to take that $1.2B they spent to buy Palm then dump it in the trash. Also, they’re making a Windows 7 tablet.
The tablet formerly known as the HP Slate or HP Hurricane and possibly now known as the HP PalmPad is rumored to be keeping its active digitizer despite running WebOS instead of Windows 7.
Actually, trademark filings show a name in all caps, so all we know for certain is that HP has a trademark on “PALMPAD” but presumably they’ll drop the casing on some of those letters if and when they introduce a PalmPad (or Palmpad).
Harry McCracken at Technologizer ran into Phil McKinney, CTO of HP, at The Big Money’s Untethered conference, a meeting about “profitable media in the tablet era.” You’d think that McKinney, one of the speakers at this event about tablets would be eager to speak about HP’s tablets, specifically the Slate, but not so much.
My in-laws are visiting for a couple of weeks and my wife tasked me with cleaning out our coat closet, which is behind the wall where I mounted my HDTV. One side of the closet has shelves that are home to my game systems, cable box, SlingBox and other gadgets. I wasn’t looking forward to [...]
In their 2Q earnings call last night, HP CEO Mark Hurd announced their intention to take webOS “beyond smart phones into form factors such as slates and web-connected printers“, reaching the outside world via Twitter. Great that they’ve affirmed their commitment to a slate, but the printer comment has raised eyebrows. I’m not sure why.
Got a Palm Pixi or Pre through Verizon Wireless? You might want to hold off downloading any new apps for a while as it appears a bug has caused many Pixi and Pre users to lose access to their applications. I noticed the problem this morning as I was trying to install Evernote on my [...]
So, what does $1.2 billion buy you these days? How about a legendary tech company that is on the ropes but has what quite a few folks think is a great bit of software in its mobile operating system. It also allows you to shake up the mobile and connected device sector. HP and Palm [...]
The battles in the war over the mobile landscape have already been raging on the patent and legal front with Apple suing HTC, Nokia hauling out its lawyers as well, and everybody gearing up for some carnage. The battle lines just got both harder and easier to discern last night. Microsoft and HTC signed patent [...]
Well, it looks like Palm is going to have to find a way to get out of their current financial predicament on their own. According to an article over at Tech Crunch, it looks like HTC is not coming to save Palm’s day. According to a report based on a source from an Asia-based Reuters correspondent, [...]
Let’s face it, the smartbook will become the inevitable next step in the evolution of our two favorite mobile gadgets: the smartphone and the netbook. As our demand for mobile Internet content continues to grow, smartphones become more powerful, and mainstream consumer adoption of smartphones expand, the smartbook stands at the threshold. What exactly will [...]
Announced on the Palm Developer Network Blog, submissions are now being accepted for the Palm App Catalog, allowing entrepreneurs to show us what they can do on WebOS. They are accepting both free and paid apps with the minimum allowed pricing set at 99 ¢. Criteria for acceptance are: Acceptance Criteria Palm will accept apps [...]
Palm Pre users lost their ‘native’ iTunes syncing ability when Apple, as expected, issued an update to iTunes last week. Now Palm is issuing a counterpunch with a new update that apparently restores the capability. This will probably go several rounds before one or both companies gives up the ghost and things get settled out. [...]
The ever-expanding note-taking app service known as Evernote is now available on the Palm Pre via the Palm App Catalog. Looks like an excellent implementation. According to Lifehacker, it takes advantage of the Pre’s “card” system to open multiple notes at once. And it has a thumbnail view for quick visual sorting (shown). However, it [...]
When I described the Palm Pre interface as “rather cutesy,” some took that to mean I thought it would scare off business users. Actually, I was just struck by the contrast of the Palm business brand against the exciting, new consumer device. Well, apparently, that contrast isn’t just skin deep because it’s being reported the [...]
The NDA has lifted, and the reviews of the Palm Pre are in. jkOnTheRun has a full roundup. Very positive across the board, and after skimming through them, I don’t think there are any surprises here. Everything works pretty much as previously discussed. Interface is engaging. Sync grabs everything. The card metaphor for multi-tasking works [...]
The long-awaited Palm Pre will be available on June 6 for $199 at Sprint retail stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, select Wal-Mart stores and on Sprint.com. You have to sign up for a two-year contract that includes a data plan. I was a long-time Palm user, but switched to an iPhone about two years ago. [...]
The Boy Genius Report published a Palm memo that points to a June 5 launch of the Palm Pre. There’s a lot of pent up demand for the Pre, but it will be interesting to see how it all plays out since a new iPhone will likely be announced on June 9. The Palm Pre [...]
If you can’t beat them and you’ve got a patent claim, then make your dough in legal proceedings. Texas company, Saxon Innovations filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against six companies seeking to bar them from importing handsets into the US based on the infringement of patents it holds. In addition [...]
It’s no secret that Palm has been losing market share to RIM, Apple, and HTC year after year. Palm started abandoning their own OS in lieu of various iterations of Windows Mobile on their devices, much to the chagrin of its loyal users who miss the simplicity and stability of the Palm OS. According to [...]
Pictures of this former mystery device have been circulating along with rumors about just what the heck it was. Speculation was all over the map including that this swivel screen device was going to a new Palm entry called the Roteo. Well, Jenn at Pocketables has done the dirty work and it is looking more [...]
We don’t usually cover much about Palm, partly because, well there hasn’t been much news other than the lack of news regarding any advances on the OS. But it looks like there will be a new Palm OS coming. According to a report on MobileBurn. Access, the company that bought up PalmSource, unveiled ALP 3.0, [...]
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