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12 Apr 2010 08:51

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Biz, Tech: Palm-reading: The phone maker’s putting itself up for sale

  • What a sucky ending for a cool comeback story. A year ago, Palm looked like it had realistic potential to take on the iPhone in the market. Now, it’s a completely different story. The Pre is a good phone. WebOS is a good system. But now the company and its dwindling stock price are going up for sale, according to Bloomberg. The company has been burning through $80 million every three months just to keep up with Apple and Google. It’s not sustainable. source

08 Jan 2010 10:50

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Tech: Palm upgrades its WebOS phones to cheers from nearly everyone

  • good The Palm Pre Plus can now shoot video, and current Pre users can get that action in an upgrade.
  • better The platform (which also includes the Pixi) will support Flash and using the phone as a wi-fi hotspot (awesome).
  • best If you’re not super-interested in going the Sprint route, Verizon (and maybe AT&T) will also have it. Yay! source

10 Sep 2009 10:30

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Tech: New reason to use a Pre instead of an iPhone: Sprint goes unlimited

  • For $69.99, you can get unlimited EVERYTHING. As many iPhone fans know, the main argument against using an iPhone is the carrier – AT&T’s plans are not only expensive, but they’re spotty and often arbitrarily leave iPhone users out of the loop. Sprint, which now has a killer phone of its own in the Palm Pre (and soon, the Palm Pixi), plans to offer an unlimited plan (Any Mobile, Anytime) which is cheaper than most of AT&T’s iphone plans, AND offers more bang for your buck. Now if only Palm can stop screwing up the marketing of their phones. source

09 Sep 2009 20:13

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Tech: Dear Palm: Don’t announce things ahead of Apple events

  • -8% stock dip after announcing the Pixi today of all days source

09 Sep 2009 01:58

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Tech: That’s hot: The Palm Pixi gives the Pre a sexy little sister

See, Apple – is it really that hard to release an iPhone with a keyboard? Palm has your form factor AND a keyboard and still remains amazingly functional. source