Here is the full video (about 1 hour) of Palm’s presentation in CES 2010.  If you are interest in Palm’s WebOS platforms, it covers quite a lot of updates regarding their new development: Pre coming to SFR in France PreCentral webOS App Gallery brings the App Catalog to your browser Palm reveals open web distribution of webOS apps Video recording coming to webOS Flash 10.1 coming soon to a Palm near you Palm makes the [...]

A leaked Verizon document reveals detailed specifications about the upcoming Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus models. The Pre Plus will come with 16GB of internal memory, as opposed to the original Pre on Sprint of 8GB.  It has a 3.1″ capacitive display with 320×480 resolution and multi-touch support, slide out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, EVDO Rev A, 3MP camera with LED Flash, Bluetooth, video and music playback, and document viewer. The Pixi Plus [...]

Palm seems to be working hard to add more features to its WebOS.  And the latest is the 3D hardware accelarated gaming.  The webosinternal channel on Youtube is showing a demo of Doom running on Palm Pre and it has reached a pretty impressive stage.  It is working at high speed and the graphic is smooth.  When Palm finishes the development of the 3D API for WebOS, we will see full 3D games start to [...]

After a short while of private testing with developers, Palm‘s latest killer development platform, Ares, is now opened for public beta. This development platform is built entirely on web, developers do not need to download anything.  Just goto http://ares.palm.com to start coding, visually.  The platform is also made easy for developer collaboration and app submission to Palm’s App Catalog. Ares includes Complete integrated development environment Drag-and-drop interface builder Code editor Visual debugger Log viewer Source [...]

Palm has been doing everything to stay alive in the mobile computing market.  However, by looking at its recent performance and market competitions, there have been analysts saying the future of Palm is not looking.  And the latest is from MSN Money’s Michael Brush. In his newest column, 7 companies that won’t make it to 2020, Palm is listed as one of the companies for the following reasons: Apple iPhones have a lock on coolness. Apps [...]

Palm has just released the WebOS 1.3.1 update for the Pre owners. There is no “fix” for the broken iTunes sync yet but there is a list of improvement for the Pre owners: Yahoo! is now officially supported for Contact/Calender/IM. You can forward SMS/MMS from the messages. Widescreen videos now display in widescreen mode on the phone by default, instead of being cropped. If you tap to play a YouTube video embedded on a web [...]

Here is the rumour again, the world’s largest phone manufacturer, Nokia, is looking to buy into Palm, the owner of the Pre and Pixi. Palm’s stock price rose by 8% last Friday when the rumour hit the market.  However, both company declined to comment anything on the rumour. However, many of the analysts say the deal to be unlikely as it will be wiser for Nokia to just license the WebOS platform instead of buying [...]

The people at Engadget Mobile has their hands on the Palm Pixi already and they have published an official review. This small brother of Palm Pre comes with a slower processor, 2 megapixel camera, no wifi, smaller screen (320 x 400), and a different form factor. In general, the deciding factor will be mainly on the form factor as no is not much different from its big brother.  Price wise, it is about USD50 different. [...]

Palm is expanding its market by going to another country, this time, it is Mexico. According to Palm’s Mexico site, the Palm Pre will be landed at Telcel at 27th November.  At the moment, no price information is available. Congratulations, fellow Mexicans. For us in Asia, the wait continues. The official link is here.

During the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco, Palm shows its developers a brand new development platform called Ares.  This web based SDK enables developers to user drag-and-drop in a browser to develop WebOS applications. And there are more: The developers are not required to download any tools to their local PC, everything including libraries are available on this web development platform. The developers can send the apps to the phones, App Catalog or [...]