The game goes on, the recent release of Apple iTunes 9.0.2 kills the media sync capability between iTunes and Palm Pre. Despite Palm‘s effort to make the Pre compatable to iTunes media sync, Apple just hates it and keeps breaking it with new updates. While the main goals of iTunes 9.0.2 are to add support for Apple TV software version 3.0, add an option for a dark background for Grid View and improve support for [...]

Aftern one and half month of the original announcement of Pixi, the price and launch date of Palm Pixi are official now.  It will be sold at Sprint at USD99.99 on 15th of November (after mail in rebate). This small of Palm Pre is targeted at a bigger mass, with its small screen and super thin body.  And now, with a more attractive price then Pre. As usual, it is for US market only and [...]

It is happening now.  You can now buy a Palm Pre GSM version in Europe now.  O2 Germany just launched the Palm Pre. It is being sold for €481 without a contract.  And you can finance it for €20 over 24 monthly payments.  You might want to check theironline store for more details. The Palm Pre will be rolled out in other European countries in the next few day.  However, there is still no news [...]

Palm WebOS 1.2 is ready for download.  According to palm site, there isn’t new feature for the new version.  However, there are quite a number of updates for the existing applications. To name a few of more significant updates: User can download paid apps from App Catalog now LinkedIn is now supported for Contact Sync Palm did not “fix” the syncing issue for iTune 9.01.  I am just wondering whether Palm will still want to [...]

Palm is reported to have a little bit of problem getting the overwhelming submissions of applications into their App Catalog.  However, that is a good and happy problem they have. The success of a device (especially a smartphone or a PDA phone) largely depends on the number of applications available for it.  Palm has been working very hard to get more applications into their App Catalog since Palm Pre was launched.  With the opening of [...]

As crazy as you could imagine, there have been rumours that Nokia, the Finnish phone maker, is considering making an acquisition bid for Palm.  Like Palm, Nokia has not been doing well in the smartphone market and failed to capture the market.  It has been behind Research in Motion (RIM, who makes all the blackberry phones) and Apple (who makes the famous iPhone). The “take over” could close the gap between Nokia and the market [...]

With the new management and the new WebOS, Palm will be stopping the relationship with Microsoft soon.  Focusing only on one single platform – WebOS, the future devices by Palm will only support WebOS. Jon Rubinstein just made it official during their financial results conference call: Due to importance of webOS to our overall strategy, we’ve made the decision to dedicate all future develoment resources to the evolution of webOS. Which means that going forward, [...]

Palm may not want to publish the detailed specs for the coming Pixi, but Qualcomm is kind enough to share with us the full spec sheet for the MSM7627, the CPU used in Pixi. Like the Palm Pre, it supports hardware accelearated 3D graphics by using an OpenGL 2.0-suuportung GPU.  This allows the device to have decent support for gaming capabilities.  It is also packed with a 320 MGz application DSP to handle multimedia on [...]

While we are still waiting for GSM version of Pre to be available in Asia, Palm has officially unveiled its second webOS phone, the ultra-thin Palm Pixi. Pixi is coming in at just 10.85 mm, it is thinner than the Pre by 6.1 mm and even the iPhone 3Gs by 1.45 mm. The Pixi will be launching exclusively on Sprint (so it is EVDO 3G also), though Palm has yet to reveal availability dates or [...]