Tag Archive | "Palm Pre"
Palm slashes guidance, stock down nearly 16%
With Android making a strong push, and RIM and Apple still doing their thang’, Palm’s lineup of WebOS phones have seemingly been marginalized to the fringe of the smartphone market. Earlier today, Palm scaled back its earnings guidance and now expects 3Q revenue to fall somewhere in between $285 and $310 million. The street, however, [...]
Continue reading...Dumping the Palm Pre
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sachin Agarwai of Silicon Alley Insider recently decided to dump his Palm Pre after just 3 weeks of use. While his experience is obviously not universal, his complaints about the Pre’s touchscreen and other software shenanigans seem to be a recurring theme.
Continue reading...Palm Pre sales get off to disappointing start in the UK
Saturday, December 12, 2009
After striking a 2-year exclusive deal with Palm to sell the Palm Pre in England, O2 is scrambling to increase sales after an extremely lackluster and disappointing launch. Mobile Exec writes that “O2 is sending specialist training staff into its stores in an attempt to boost faltering sales of the Palm Pre.” We’re curious, though, if [...]
Continue reading...The Palm Pre is one smooth playa [Photo]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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This is a few weeks old, but still a hilarious spoof on the Palm Pre’s ability to sync up with iTunes, and as you might expect, it’s from the talented folks over at Joy of Tech. When Apple released iTunes 9, it broke syncability between the Pre and iTunes, but Palm subsequently issued a WebOS [...]
Continue reading...Why Palm’s “Open” strategy to take on the iPhone won’t work
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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The app store on the Palm Pre is now open for business, and Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein announced at yesterday’s Palm Developer conference that there are already about 127 apps that have been downloaded a total of 7.5 million times. Now that might seem impressive until you consider that the iPhone app store currently has [...]
Continue reading...Palm has an easy time getting the Pre to sync with iTunes
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Well, Palm certainly has some chutzpah. Even after Palm’s complaint with the USB Implementers Forurm resulted in a public lashing, whereby they were chastised for spoofing Apple’s USB vendor ID, they were back to their old tricks this past weekend. According to PreCentral, when a user hooks up their Pre running WebOS 1.2.1 to their machine, [...]
Continue reading...Why enabling the Palm Pre to sync up with iTunes is shortsighted
Sunday, October 4, 2009
In case you missed it, Palm is up to its old tricks again and has re-enabled the ability of the Palm Pre to sync with iTunes. As we’ve discussed previously, this back and forth cat and mouse game between Apple and Palm only serves to disrupt the user experience for Palm Pre owners, with their [...]
Continue reading...New Palm Pre update re-enables iTunes syncing.. AGAIN
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The ongoing battle between Palm and Apple over the Palm Pre’s ability to sync up with iTunes shows no signs of dying down, despite numerous attempts from Apple to block the Pre and in spite a recent letter from the USB Implementors Forum which chastised Palm for spoofing Apple’s USB Vendor ID. Palm today released WebOS [...]
Continue reading...Report: Palm laying off workers, disappointing Pre sales may be to blame
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Palm has started laying off employees as a cost saving measure in the face of lower then expected Palm Pre sales, according to a recent blurb on CoolSmartphone. Since Palm first introduced the Pre to the public at CES 2009, the Pre, rightly or wrongly, has been typecast as a true competitor to the iPhone. The [...]
Continue reading...Report: Verizon isn’t planning to sell the Palm Pre
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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Citing sources “close to the discussions”, TheStreet is reporting that Verizon has done an about face and is no longer planning on selling the Palm Pre on their network. The move would be a dramatic setback for the up-from-the-ashes Palm story. The company desperately needs to secure more telco partners to sell its flagship phone. In [...]
Continue reading...USB Forum comes down hard on Palm for spoofing Apple’s USB vendor ID re: iTunes syncing
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The cat and mouse game over the Palm Pre’s ability to sync with iTunes may soon be coming to an end. Just a few weeks ago, Apple released an iTunes update which prevented the Pre from syncing up with iTunes. Shortly thereafter, Palm answered with an update of its own with the release of webOS 1.1, [...]
Continue reading...iTunes 9 breaks Palm Pre syncing
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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Steve Jobs unveiled iTunes 9 today, and according to a report from PreCentral, it breaks, yet again, the ability of the Palm Pre to sync up with Apple media manager. This past July, an iTunes update accomplished a similar objective, but Palm was quick to fire back with a software update of its own to counteract [...]
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
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