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Palm Pre 2 gets UK release date: Monday 15th November

November 12th, 2010 10:40am No comments

Palm Pre 2 gets UK release date confirmed

Hewlett Packard has announced that the Palm Pre 2 will be available SIM-free in the UK from Monday 15th November.

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

June 11th, 2010 9:45am 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 in the UK. It’s been pretty hopeless really.

April 29th, 2010 3:30pm 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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Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus coming to O2 in April?

March 18th, 2010 7:15pm No comments

Pre Plus and Pixi Plus coming to O2 in April?The filmiest of rumours are circulating that the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus could be heading in the direction of a European carrier next month.

Advert-bedecked UK tech blog Tracy and Matt are reporting that an anonymous tipster contacted them to say that o2 will start carrying the Pixi Plus and the Pre Plus.

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New Palm TV advert: “Life Moves Fast” – with no spooky lady!

March 16th, 2010 11:45am 1 comment

New Palm TV advert:

After baffling consumers with the Spooky Woman (see below), Palm has put out a far more accessible advert which we reckon does a pretty good job selling their innovative webOS.

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iPhone games ported to Palm’s webOS ‘in a matter of days’

March 5th, 2010 4:54pm No comments

iPhone games ported to Palm's webOS 'in a matter of days'

Palm will be strutting their stuff at the Game Developer’s Conference next week and their presentation will focus on their Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) – a set of tools designed to help developers create graphics-intensive games for Palm’s webOS.

The PDK is said to let developers rewrite mobile apps designed for other platforms in double quick-time, with iPhone apps reputedly ported over in “a matter of days,” with no degradation in performance.

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Facebook for webOS updated – video review

March 4th, 2010 10:39am No comments

Facebook for webOS updatedThe original Facebook app for the Palm Pre was a seriously underwhelming affair, so Palm webOS users so should be whooping with social networking-related joy at the news of a substantial update.

The slick new app offers an enhanced Inbox and the ability to view photo albums from all your friends, not just the photos in their news feeds.

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Palm webOS 1.4 hits the UK, Flash and video support added

February 27th, 2010 12:36pm No comments

Palm webOS 1.4 hits the UK, Flash and video support added

Finally, Brit Palm Pre users can enjoy having their phone as up to date as their American cousins, with the v1.4 webOS update being rolled out across Europe and the US.

The update adds adds video capture to the Pre handset with the ability for  users to edit and upload them directly to YouTube, Facebook, or share them via an e-mail or an MMS message.

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Palm Pre: why Palm’s innovative handset failed in the UK

February 26th, 2010 12:52pm 9 comments

Palm Pre: why it failed in the UK

The news from across the Atlantic is looking grim for Palm, with sales well down on initial estimates, and a profit warning issued – and if things are bad there, it’s hard to imagine how much worse they must be in the UK.

Put bluntly, you’re more likely to see a juggling polar bear unicycling down the High Street than see a Palm Pre being used in the UK.

So what happened? Why did such a great phone not get the attention it deserved in the UK?

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Palm webOS App Catalogue hits 1,500 apps in the US

February 19th, 2010 2:31pm 1 comment

Palm webOS App Catalogue hits 1,500 apps in the US

The collection of apps available in Palm’s App Catalog store in the US has now risen to an impressive 1,500 apps, and is growing at a rate of more then 10 apps a day.

On top of the 1,500 officially available apps there’s also nearly 450 ready for downloading from the Homebrew catalogue, giving Palm Pre and Pixi users a wide range of apps to play with.

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Palm webOS 1.4 hands-on shows off Flash support

February 17th, 2010 12:27pm No comments

Palm webOS 1.4 shows off Flash support

The guys at PreCentral managed to bag some hands-on time with a GSM Palm Pre running an early version of Flash, and have shared the video with the world.

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