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 [...]
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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 [...]
Hot out of the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 conference are the announcements from RIM [RIMM] about their upcoming smartphones: BlackBerry Pearl 8220 BlackBerry Bold BlackBerry Pearl 8220 Unfortunately for AT&T [T] customers, the Pearl 8220 will debut in the U.S. as a T-Mobile [DT] exclusive shortly. It sports a lot of the same [...]
Remember when NullRiver‘s NetShare iPhone app disappeared from the iTunes App Store? It was the iPhone app that provided a means to tether a computer to the iPhone for Internet access via the iPhone’s data transmissions. After it was released on July 31, 2008, it was available on the App Store for several minutes before [...]
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 [...]
Hot on the tail (tales?) of Apple’s [AAPL] latest news of iPhone connectivity problems and App Store concerns, the Palm [PALM] Treo Pro was announced yesterday, followed today by the RIM [RIMM] BlackBerry Bold. Huh? The Apple iPhone 3G The iPhone 3G has been out the longest, and it has been steadily gaining developer acceptance [...]
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 [...]
