I want more battery life for my smartphone as much as the next guy. However, I draw the line at gigantic batteries that are so fat they can’t even fit under the battery cover of the phone. I mean there is a point where extra runtime is offset by ugly, and the people at PreThinking have found that point. There are ... continued »

Heavy Palm Pre users will have discovered that the smartphone's battery life can prove insufficient for a full day's use, especially when you're receiving push email and using juice-thirsty features like GPS and 3G data.  Third-party battery manufacturer Seidio had already promised a double-capacity pack for the Pre; now they're offering one with a more slight improvement, the Innocell 1,350mAh pack. At ... continued »

Palm resold a couple of more shares than originally planned; 23.13M shares to be exact, compared with the 18.5M shares owned by Elevation Partners it had intended to sell.  The selling price was $6 per share yielding a total of $132.9M and of which $49M went to Elevation and $83.9M went to Palm. continued »

As smartphone users are continually doing more and more with their devices on the go, power requirements are going nowhere but up.  Enter what is rumored to be the Palm Pre's spare battery and charger combination. Seen being used by Palm's show floor personnel at CES, this plastic case pulls double duty as both a storage and charging solution for your Pre's ... continued »

One of the things that Palm refused to talk about during the Keynote as well as one-on-one time with the device is battery capacity and battery life. Now we have reason to believe that the battery included in the Palm Pre will be 1150mAh because it’s the same battery as the Palm Centro and Palm Treo 800w. When in the one ... continued »