Just how fast is the iPhone 3G S? Accordng to Anandtech, it’s 54% faster than the iPhone 3G and 11% 21% faster than Palm Pre. Even better, in application launch, it makes Palm Pre eat dust especially on web browser launch and Google Maps. Now, what I’m really interested in is battery life comparisons. See the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
While the iPhone 3G S maybe the stuffing up headlines today, we can’t forget that the Palm Pre is also now available. In particular, it is now available nationwide across the US. So, if you’ve been on the edge of your seats for the past couple of months waiting for Palm’s latest smartphone to become [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 6, 2009
The Palm Pre is now officially available on Sprint. Signing up for a 2-yr contract and availing of a $100 mail-in rebate will land you a $199.99 Palm Pre while getting it sans any further obligation to Sprint (read: contract-free) will cost you $549.99. It’s obviously more expensive without the contract, but it’s still a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 25, 2009
There’s nothing surprising about Best Buy offering up the Palm Pre for $199.99 on a 2-yr contract with Sprint, but what caught us a little bit off-guard is the fact that their selling the contract-free Palm Pre for a staggering $849.99. Granted that contract-free prices are expected to be more expensive, this one by Best [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 23, 2009
We reported a couple of days ago that there might be a shortage of Palm Pre units once it goes on retail next month. The exact figure of 200K units mentioned isn’t by any stretch official, but it’s enough to really get us worried over its availability in the first couple of months when it [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
If you’re planning to be among the first owners of the Palm Pre, you better be an early riser because it seems that there will only be a limited number of stock available when it goes on retail next month. Here’s a quote from Reuters of Sprint CEO Dan Hesse discussing the Palm Pre: “We don’t [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The Palm Pre, one of the new chief rivals of the iPhone, has finally been given a release date and it’ll be happening very soon. Sprint has just announced that it will be available starting June 6th both online and in retail outlets of Best Buy, Radio Shack, and Wal-Mart. How about the price? Well, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
The highly-anticipated Palm Pre hasn’t even hit the market yet, and now, there’s already talk of Palm working on a second webOS-enabled device dubbed the Palm Eos. Unlike the Pre which is a CDMA phone, the Palm Eos is apparently a GSM version as it’s supposedly headed for AT&T. It’s also much smaller measuring a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The iPhone has been, for the most, part an exclusive item to AT&T in the US, and one of the hottest items soon to be released this year, the Palm Pre, is also another exclusive albeit on Sprint. So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that AT&T feels a little bit threatened that customers might [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 19, 2009
To get you excited even more for the Palm Pre’s release, Motion Apps has released this video demonstrating how very much capable their Classic Palm OS emulator is in handling games. GTS World Racer is the game and its looks pretty impressive on the Palm Pre. Of course, this is a relatively outdated game, but [...]
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Friday, June 19, 2009
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