O2 is such an exclusive phone hog; they’ve already got the exclusivity on the iPhone and now – the Palm Pre too? Any questions? [Via Guardian] continued »

Palm have apparently confirmed that they will be making an announcement next week regarding the UK version of the Palm Pre.  The news, says T3, will include which network has won exclusivity for the GSM handset in the UK, when exactly it will be available, and at what price. Front-runners in the carrier contest have always been Vodafone and O2.  Palm used the ... continued »

After being caught on camera in Vietnam this week, the next sighting pegs the Pre as in London, UK.  Twitter user utku spotted what sounds like a field tester using his Pre on the Tube; however when approached the user became highly secretive. "So I went to the guy and said "Ooh, I see you have a Palm Pre." On which ... continued »

Many scoffed at the analyst estimates tipping Palm Pre sales of up to 150,000 units; those people will likely find much to surprise them with Equity Research analyst Edward Snyder assertion that Palm have in fact shipped around 300,000 Pre units since the smartphone's launch.  Snyder revealed his estimates yesterday, and they stand in strong contrast to the analysts usually ... continued »

It's not the first GSM Palm Pre we've seen - in fact the company brought a handful along to Mobile World Congress back in February - but this in-the-wild video of the smartphone over in Vietnam does suggest mass production is underway.  Things behind the Pre's battery cover seem little changed from the pre-production units we caught on camera, with the ... continued »

Palm have released webOS v1.0.4 as an over-the-air update, and as you might expect it addresses the most significant security hole discovered by Pre-hackers: side-loading applications via email.  In fact, aside from blocking up some security holes, webOS 1.0.4 brings no new applications or features. Unfortunately, due to the way Palm have constructed their OTA update system, users don't really have ... continued »

One of the things that many corporate smartphone users need in a mobile phone is support for Exchange servers. Many users know that different OS' support Exchange to different extents and finding a platform that offers all the functionality needed can sometimes be a challenge. ZDNet has a rundown of different mobile OS' that support Exchange and talks about what each ... continued »

It's hard to get away from the fact that the Pre on-device app store has less apps available than the Apple App Store offers. Despite that fact when the number of Pres on the market are considered the Pre app store is doing well. According to Palm CTO Mitch Allen Palm is trying to appeal to Pre owners with quality apps ... continued »

Palm has being doing pretty well for itself since the official launch of the Pre smartphone a few weeks back. Its application store is actually doing decently against the iTunes App Store when the number of handsets in the field is considered and the phone is selling out for Sprint. Palm announced its Q4 and fiscal year 2009 earnings yesterday. The ... continued »

In the world of writing for the web, mistakes are easy to make. Typically, you are working with templates for things like images and content that you only have partial ability to change so it can lead to some mistakes slipping by making for some of those WTF moments for readers. That said I can understand how some lowly website maintenance ... continued »