With all the hype that surrounded the June release of the Palm Pre, the idea of further phones using the webOS system was widely disregarded. Many assumed the the success of the Pre would dictate the release of any further phones, and the Palm's very existence was reliant on the flagship webOS handset being a smash. The small rumor of another phone name 'Eos' or 'Pixie' seemed little more than a figment of an over zealous fan wanting to contribute to the ... Read More

Coming in the shadows of the announcement of the Palm Pixi, Palm also announced that the price of the Palm Pre has now been dropped to $150 dollars with contract. So if you've been waiting for a cheaper version, or just haven't been that impressed with the 3GS, now is your chance to grab yourself a great phone at a great price. Price available after $150 instant and $100 mail-in rebate. Click HERE to buy the Palm Pre from Amazon.com Read More

Up until today it had been a new Palm phone was a mystery only exceeded by the speculation around the company's ability to survive over the coming harsh winter months. Yet, out of the frying pan of analysts prediuctions that the Palm Pre's sales were falling off, returns were high, and Palm was likely to release less than promising results for the quarter, comes a bright new future in the Palm Pixi. Completely altering the form factor availalble with the Palm Pre handset, ... Read More

The new update for webOS was accidentally leaked yesterday, and apparently the leak came from Palm itself. A few forum members overs at PreCentral Forums used webOS Doctor (Build Sprint.100.166 08/30/09 08:03 - which is no longer available) to reset their factory settings and the phone automatically installed the new version 1.2 of Palm mobile operating system. New features include: - Ability to enter your account details into the app catalog -  which will allow of the monetization of future apps in the store. ... Read More

The Palm Pre launches in Canada today bringing one of the most anticipated handsets in recent history to to the country. The phone is launching on the Bell Mobility network and will be available from $199 on a three year contract. The phone can be bought online or at your local Bell retailer. Wade Oosterman, president of Bell Mobility and chief brand officer of Bell Canada said today: “There's no doubt the Pre will have a positive impact on our market share and there's no doubt ... Read More

Thursday is Palm Pre drop day for Canada and as the date finally rolls around, Bell have begun releasing advertising for the handset in print, tv and online campaigns. Check them all out below: Print ad: The very familiar TV spot (why couldn't Sprint have gone with something like this?): Episode 1 of the online campaign: Episode 2: Read More

Rumors abound that the Palm Eos will, or won't arrive this year. Anonymous sources everywhere are suggesting that the phone is shipping to Palm in October, while analysts are claiming that the phone won't see daylight until 2010 because the Pre hasn't done that great, which is a further detail that no-one can confirm. Basically it's all non-sense, and no-one really knows anything. If the phone was arriving in October, there would be more concrete chatter about it. Palm would more than likely ... Read More

After hearing about some of the maladies that the Palm Pre suffers from in the hardware department, people were likely becoming slightly despondent about the phone's ability to genuinely compete in the smart phone market. However, Palm, being Palm, are tackling hardware issues with the Pre by altering the hardware for later vrions of the handset. PreCentral points out that the new handsets come installed with a small foam pad that allows the battery to fit better and avoid some of the slider-related ... Read More

Palm suffered a fair amount of negative publicity last week when a Palm Pre user revealed that he had discovered that his Palm Pre handset had been sending back inofrmation regarding the ways in which he used to the phone, up to once a day. Palm Pre user Joey Hess discovered that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm, as well as information about applications on the phone, including thrid party apps that may have not been ... Read More

More sterile weirdness from the is-she-is-she-not-smiling Tamara Hope. And a little more. This time contacts. We're all still talking but what is really going on here. The commercials clearly aren't appealing to many, so why not scrap them rather than continue disappointing. While i was all for the commercial aspect of being talked about, there is now way too much negativity around these ads in the tech community, and it doesn't make sense to allow your core word-spreading market to consistently ridicule your own ... Read More