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Palm Cuts Jobs: Losing ground to RIM and Apple

Palm are now feeling the financial strain like so many other companies across the globe, as they have now announced that they are to make some job cuts. Palm have announced that they will have to cut 1050 jobs, not a nice prospect to face redundancy on the run-up to Christmas. Read more

New Sprint Palm Centro’s: Vibrant Rose and Olive Green

When we think of the colors associated with Christmas I am sure they are not vibrant rose and Olive Green, but more like Red and a Dark Green color Read more

NEW Nokia N96, Palm Treo Pro, and DA Essentials Awards 2008

Below is an update with this week’s highlights that eXpansys think you will be interested in including what they think is the best deal you’ll find anywhere on the N96.

NEW Nokia N96 Symbian-powered Smartphone Normally £499.99 Now only £469.99 inc VAT Save £30 & get £120 eXpansys Vouchers. Packed with features like a 5 mega-pixel camera, DVD video capture and Read more

Palm Treo Pro Now Available In United States

The time has come for Palm Treo Pro fans and we can now confirm that this smartphone is now available in the United States. You can read the full details in the press release below.

Palm, Inc. yesterday announced that the unlocked Treo Pro smartphone is now available in the United States. With its unmatched blend of Palm’s ease-of-use innovations, Windows Mobile 6.1, and enterprise support in a sleek new design, Treo Pro is a world phone built end-to-end for the global enterprise. It allows businesses to simplify their IT infrastructures while lowering costs and keeping their users productive and happy Read more

Palm Treo Pro Verizon Release

Many Palm phone fans are waiting for a CDMA version of the Palm Treo Pro so they can use the cell phone on the Verizon network.

This may not be long according to a rumor from Cens.com, they are reporting that there will be a Palm Treo Pro Verizon release soon. Plans are apparently being made for a code division multiple access version of the Pro Read more

Updates: HTC S740, Palm Treo Pro and TomTom GPS

Below is an update with this weeks highlights from eXpansys that we think you will be interested in, this includes the new HTC S740, Palm Treo Pro and GPS updates Read more

Full Details on Palm Treo Pro Smartphone

Yesterday we posted a video of the Palm Treo Pro and some leaked information on the phones features, but today we can confirm all the specifications thanks to a Palm release.

The Palm Treo Pro is designed for users who want to stay on top of their personal and professional lives, while the business user would be able to lower costs and simplify their IT infrastructures.

Main features of the Treo Pro include the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform, a Qualcomm MSM7201 400MHz processor, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, MicroUSB 2.0, microSDHC cards (up to 32GB supported), up to 5.0 hours talk time and up to 250 hours standby, a 2.0 megapixels with up to 8x digital zoom and video capture, 256MB memory and 128MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, Built-in GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM and a 320×320 transflective color TFT flush touchscreen Read more

Palm Treo Pro: video of sleek black handset

This is the Treo Pro and today two official press photos were released by Palm, you can also see a video of the Palm Treo Pro in action below this post.

The video and photos do not give us much information in the way of specification, although we do know that the Treo Pro will feature a high-resolution flush-fitting color touchscreen, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, GPS and a one-touch Wi-Fi button.

Other leaked information has the Treo Pro also featuring 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM, a 400MHz processor, usually a microUSB connector, a 320×320 pixel display and 3.5mm headphone socket.

The last few specifications mentioned above are not official and should be treated as just rumor until we get official confirmation.

Currently we do not have a release date or price, but you can see some more photos on Slash Gear. Watch the video below or read other Palm News.

Palm Leaks Treo Pro (aka 850) Photos

This is the Palm Treo Pro, which was formally known as the Treo 850, and today we have some images that show the real Treo Pro.

It’s becoming a common mistake for companies to upload images of devices that aren’t meant to be seen by the public yet. Palm is the latest company to do this, and have leaked details of the Treo Pro.

Mistakes like this are corrected very fast, but with millions of us on the web its very easy for someone to see the product before its removed.

We have heard before of leaked images when it comes to the Palm Treo 850, but now a forum member on WMExperts has shown the world the device known as Treo Pro.

What we know is that the Palm Treo Pro will feature WinMo 6.1 out of the box, a MicroSD expansion slot, a Ringer Switch, Touchscreen, a Micro USB connection and WiFi.

Via mobile crunch | View other cell phone news here.

Samsung Instinct: More flair than BlackBerry, Palm or Windows Mobile phones

Some people might be wondering why the Samsung Instinct has been so popular to the extent that its sold out in many places and while it lacks many features of the iPhone or iPhone 3G, it is still selling out. There could be a few reasons for this including the simple Sprint pricing plans that all feature unlimited Internet use, a navigation assistance, text/picture/video messaging and Sprint’s online video and music feeds.

This leaves you with one choice to make when choosing a Sprint price plan and that’s how many weekday minutes to buy. You options are $99.99 for unlimited calls, $89.99 for 900 minutes and $69.99 a month gets you 450 minutes. The other reason Sprint’s Samsung Instinct is so popular could be that the iPhone is tied in the United States to just AT&T and if your cannot receive good coverage with them at home or the office, you would look elsewhere.

When we look at the Apple iPhones features then overall they crush the Samsung Instinct, one I will highlight is the lack of being able to add software of your own on the Instinct, you then cannot make the phone anymore intelligent. The iPhone on the other hand can be expanded with many third party applications and this phone will continue to get more intelligent even without the 3G iPhone upgrade.

The Samsung Instinct can be the right phone for you when its entertainment your looking for and not productivity, we all leave in a world where we have a massive love for music and videos, this is another reason the Sprint Instinct shines. When it comes to style, you can be assured that the Sprint Instinct has more flair than a BlackBerry, Palm or Windows Mobile cell phone.

What do you want more from your cell phone, productivity or entertainment?

Source: Read

Apple 3G iPhone to increase sales of Palm and RIM BlackBerry smartphones

You could easily think that the immediate launch of the 3G iPhone would mean that other major phone brands like Palm and RIM BlackBerry would see a decline in sales, this looks to be the complete opposite. After the iPhone was first released the sales of the BlackBerry smartphone increased by 38 percent over the following year.

While many brands and product review sites try and claim different phones as “iPhone Killers”, it seems that Apple’s device increases sales of similar phones. This may be down to all the increased awareness of next generation phones and as the iPhone brings millions of phone users looking for information, some users look for alternatives to the iPhone.

With 1.2 billion cellphones out there and the phone companies saying we have not even scratched the surface, I think we have room for a few more models to get buyers. Palm and BlackBerry are surely rubbing their hands right now and thinking of all the extra sales the iPhone will help bring them…the phone business has never been so good, especially when some users want Windows phones and not Mac based phones.

The second version of iPhone could be the one that many buyers have been holding out for, iPhone 2 is expected to be cheaper, slicker and boast many more features like carrier subsidies, Exchange support, fast 3G networking, a better camera and maybe even GPS. In around nine hours we will hear Steve Jobs keynote speech at the annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference and this is what millions are waiting for, what will Steve give us this year?

Survey reveals BlackBerry on top of Palm: 73 percent choose RIM

Oh it seems that things are on a downward slope for Palm according to a survey, PALM were the ones that began the smartphone revolution and we know that and with bringing in a new range of stunning corporate handsets for fleets, but it now seems that their market share has plummeted thanks to enterprise competitor Research In Motion (RIM) and their BlackBerry cell phones.

The best and lucrative cell for the corporate customer base is the Palm Treo and of course is a status symbol amongst the business suits and this is what makes the latest survey from Change Wave extremely disturbing.

The Change Wave has given a number of RIM BlackBerry and Palm handsets, they have not disclosed their research methods that corporations use in their workforce, and so what does this mean? Well the research actually gives the bigger picture that the corporate sector has indeed been purchasing larger quantities of BlackBerry smartphones while Palm’s share continued to slip away.

Palm saw their enterprise smartphones take 28% of those companies surveyed in February 07 and a year later Palm has shrunk to 18% which is pretty bad on the scale of things, 59% of companies chose RIM BlackBerry cell phones and a staggering % choosing the BlackBerry in February 08.

Source via Phones Review

Palm on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch thanks to StyleTap

StyleTap did it before with a Cross Platform Palm emulator for Windows Mobile, now they are sharing with the world the fact that they have “built a proof of concept version of this software for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch”.

Sadly they have not said they will commit to releasing a product yet Read more

Blackberry RIM outage picked on by Palm ads

You may have heard about the recent Blackberry RIM outage and what’s more fitting than another brand making a joke of it just like Apple does with Microsoft Read more

AT&T Palm users: the Centro is definitely on starting next week

It has been announced that the Palm Centro will be released on February 19th.

It’s said that a source has indicated that the Palm Centro will be priced at $99 and it will come in white. Read more