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Palm webOS 2.0 offers even better multi-tasking and search

September 1st, 2010 9:15am mike s 1 comment

Palm webOS 2.0 offers even better multi-tasking and search

We’re huge fans of the Palm webOS interface – we still think it’s the best mobile operating system out there, bar none, even if the platform is woefully short of apps – so we’re  very interested to hear details of the next generation OS coming up, webOS 2.0.

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Angry Birds hit game flies into the Palm webOS App Catalog

August 25th, 2010 9:45am mike s No comments

Angry Birds game arrives on Palm's webOS

The lack of top notch apps in Palm’s webOS platform has proved to be a bitter disappointment to Palm Pre and Pixi users, with UK users being hit particularly hard (the Brit App Catalogue is a pale shadow of the US one, with just 2,800 apps on offer and many of them pretty unexciting).

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HP shun Windows smartphones, cuddle up tight to webOS

July 24th, 2010 12:20pm mike s No comments

HP shun Windows smartphones, pledge future to webOS

Perhaps not the most surprisingly news you’ll hear this week, but HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley has confirmed that his company will not be making any Windows Phone 7 devices, and will instead focus entirely on their newly-acquired webOS for all upcoming smartphones.

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Old school Palm Graffiti text input now available for Android

July 16th, 2010 3:41pm Pete Railton 1 comment

Old school Palm Graffiti text input now available for Android

‘Scuse us while we dab away a nostalgic tear here at the news that Access has just released a version of the classic Palm OS Graffiti for Android OS devices.

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Foursquare notches up one million check-ins in a single day

July 5th, 2010 12:57pm Pete Railton 1 comment

Foursquare notches up one million check-ins in a single dayThe location-based social networking service Foursquare has announced that it’s cruised past the landmark figure of one million check-ins during a single day.

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HP Palm buyout completed: webOS tablets and netbooks coming up

July 1st, 2010 4:41pm Tony Fletcher No comments

HP Palm buyout completed: webOS tablets and netbooks coming up

HP has now completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, and have confirmed that they plan to get stuck into their lovely webOS mobile operating system and slap it in new tablet computers and netbooks.

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Palm drops submission fees to kickstart app development

June 30th, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

Palm drops submission fees to kickstart app developmentNo matter how you spin it, Palm’s app catalogue is a weedy offering compared to the overflowing stocks of apps available in bulging iPhone and Android stores.

In a move to kickstart app development – and perhaps send out an encouraging sign to current users – Palm has announced that it is scrapping the $50 fee that used to be required to get apps listed in their official App Catalog.

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Palm extols the virtues of the Pre/Pixi’s ‘option’ key

June 11th, 2010 9:45am mike s No comments

Palm extols the virtues of the Pre/Pixi's 'option' key

If, like us, you’re rather keen on a physical keyboard, then Palm are hoping to entice you into their hardware QWERTY keyboard’s world of joy with their latest blog post bigging up the ‘option’ key.

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Palm Pixi Plus: “best second-tier, affordable smartphone on the market”

June 9th, 2010 2:54pm Pete Railton No comments

Palm Pixi Plus: 'best second-tier, affordable smartphone on the market'

Looking more like a revamped Centro, Palm’s Pixi Plus has finally arrived in the UK and is hoping to prove a tempting alternative choice in the low end smartphone market.

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Smartphone users love Facebook the most

June 3rd, 2010 11:16am Lee J. 3 comments

Neilsen survey finds out what smartphone users are downloading

Newcomers to the smartphone world  may think that Apple invented the whole mobile app downloading thing, but it had in fact been going on for years – and thrives on other platforms too.

Of course when it comes to the sheer number of the apps available, Apple rules the roost with its store bulging with zillions of apps, but with smartphones predicted to overtake feature phones in the U.S. by 2011, it’s a burgeoning market on all platforms.
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HP says: ‘We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business’

June 3rd, 2010 9:45am mike s 3 comments

HP says: 'We didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business'

In a statement sure to send long suffering Palm aficionados into fresh depths of despair, Mark Hurd, the CEO of new owners’ HP is quoted as saying, “We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business.”

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HP to release webOS powered slates, tablets – and printers

May 19th, 2010 11:03am Lee J. No comments

HP to release webOS powered slates, tablets and printers

After a lively, five-way bidding war a few weeks ago, Hewlett-Packard emerged victorious, scooping up struggling mobile phone maestros Palm for $1.2bn.

Although Palm’s Pre and Pixi handsets had been picking up positive reviews, the real jewel in the crown for HP was the handset maker’s webOS operating system.

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Palm in the UK. It’s been pretty hopeless really.

April 29th, 2010 3:30pm mike s No comments

Palm in the UK. It's pretty hopeless really.

Written the day before HP announced their intention to buy Palm, this article reveals the kind of mountain that their new owners are going to have to climb.

In the UK, Palm sales have been disastrous, with their Pre webOS device failing to gain the traction it deserved  – something not helped by the company’s  frustrating inability to communicate.

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HP to buy up Palm for $1.2 Billion

April 29th, 2010 9:30am mike s 1 comment

The rumours about Palm being bought up have been circulating for months, with a succession of potential suitors mooted, but HP have now announced that they have entered into a “definitive agreement” to buy the smartphone maker.

The deal will see HP snapping up the makers of the Palm Pre and Pixi handsets – and the superb webOS operating system – at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash, adding up to an enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion.

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Internalz, file manager for Palm webOS, gets release, looks great

April 23rd, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

Internalz, file manager for Palm webOS, gets release, looks great

File managers may not be the most exciting thing you’re going to install on your handset, but for power users, compulsive tinkerers and folks who like to be in total control of their smartphones, they can be ruddy useful things.

Palm webOS users have been starved of file editors until now, with the release of Internalz which proudly claims to be, “the first and only file manager for the webOS. “  Also released is the custom service powering the app, FileMgr service.

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