Tag Archive | "Palm Pre"
Google hires Palm VP Matias Duarte to head up the Android User Experience team
When Palm debuted the Palm Pre at CES 2009, folks were saying that the iPhone had finally met its match. Obviously, the Palm Pre was never able to put a dent into the iPhone’s armor, and looking back, those predictions seem utterly absurd. But the reason the Pre was able to generate so much hype [...]
Continue reading...HP’s acquisition of Palm has more than a tinge of Apple inspiration
Monday, May 3, 2010
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HP made a big power move last week when it announced its intention to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion. The driving force behind HP’s move was Palm’s WebOS, which now gives HP the resources to release devices where they can control both the hardware and software. Sound familiar? In an interview conducted shortly after the deal [...]
Continue reading...In controlled test, iPhone’s capacitive touchscreen still reigns supreme
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Back in January, the Moto Development Group tested the efficiency and accuracy of capacitive touchscreens across a number of devices. When the dust settled, the iPhone’s touchscreen reigned supreme. But not everyone was convinced that the testing was all that telling, particularly because it was done with a human finger, making the test prone to [...]
Continue reading...Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein blames Droid for Palm Pre’s lackluster sales
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
After posting disappointing earnings last week, shares of Palm plummeted nearly 20% down to $4.59 a share, marking a new 52 week low for the beleaguered stock. And unfortunately for Palm, it doesn’t seem like there’s much of an upside with a few analysts lowering their price target for Palm all the way down to [...]
Continue reading...Palm Pre running Flash 10.1 fails to impress; Hulu doesn’t work [Video]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Check out this video footage from the San Francisco Game Developers Conference of a Palm Pre loaded with a pre-release version of Flash 10.1. The user tries to load up Hulu to no avail, and then plays some jittery Flash game that is anything but impressive. More concerning, though, is how utterly unresponsive the Palm [...]
Continue reading...Palm slashes guidance, stock down nearly 16%
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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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
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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 [...]
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
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