Sprint [S] has finally released a press announcement concerning the Palm [PALM] Pre launch: June 6, 2009 is the official release date. The earlier speculation about the launch date appears within the range, and it sounds like the pricing is in line with other current smartphones offered by other carriers. A lot of people, myself [...]
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Yesterday, Palm [PALM] and Sprint [S] revealed more information about the Palm Pre and its service plans in a Webcast, although still no definite release date or the phone pricing (subsidized or unsub, either). However, the release window of “sometime in the first half of 2009″ is presumably still more-or-less intact. Also, the Pre is [...]
Unveiled today at CES 2009, Palm’s [PALM] Pre certainly caught my attention. As you may know, my adventures with the Palm Centro has yet to reach its one-year anniversary, but I’ve been a long-time Palm device user (like the original Palm Pilot and Palm III, and then the Treo 650), so while I’ve certainly thought [...]
The Story So Far In the first part of this three-part story, I discussed the circumstances for the search for my new smartphone. In the second part, I discussed the major highlights of my investigations into the smartphone options. But I did not finish mentioning all of the devices I checked… Last Device: Palm Centro [...]
The Story So Far In the first part of this three-part story, I discussed the circumstances for the search for my new smartphone. But it was not an easy search, and quite a few different devices were investigated before making the difficult decision. The Investigation As I mentioned before, I had considered some different options [...]
With all of the talk on Javamancy about the Apple [AAPL] iPhone, several of you have asked, “Steve, what phone are you using these days?” This story is a somewhat long-ish one, and it starts several years ago but has reached an interesting twist recently, up until today, even. Let’s start this three-part story with [...]
