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

American? Check Over 18? Check. Then you are good to go. Head over the Palm's Facebook page to enter to win a free Palm Pre. All you have to do is list three acitivity cards that you would keep open all day if you had the choice. ENTER HERE Good luck and god speed. Read More

Although perhaps not in America. Fiending to find a GSM Palm Pre that you will be able to unlock and use on the network of your choice? Well a PreCentral user has tracked down certification documents that suggest a North American version of the Palm Pre exists. The unit named P100UNA has been certified for US use on the WI-FI.org as can be seen above. This compares to the previous registering of a European unit the P100UEU, the European GSM Palm Pre. The NA ... Read More

The UK is having a long old wait for the Palm Pre, which is prolly upsetting for the Brits who are used to receiving phones before most other countries due to the fierce competition between the four networks to retain and acquire users. However, our friends across the pond, you're time is coming. Soon you too will experience the joys of a Qwerty keyboard combined with a touchscreen, multi-tasking, badass OS. Apparently, according to numerous O2 sources, late October is the release date of ... Read More