The second round of Sprint's Palm Pre FAQ has been published, and there are some juicy new details about the smartphone.  Of particular interest are Office 2007 compatibility - though it's not made clear if that's mobile viewers for Word, Excel, etc, or simply Outlook 2007 synchronization - together with multiple simultaneous IM conversations.  The Pre's backup functionality will be ... continued »

We had a week of good news for Pre fans. If you missed anything in the last week, here's your chance to catch up. Hopefully you're already aware of our forum contest, but if you're not, read up on the rules and enter for your chance to win a Palm Pre! The task is to create a Palm Pre fortune that ... continued »

The Palm Pre can best the iPhone in terms of hardware and software, as long as the developer community pulls through. How is the Pre going to accomplish this? Synergy and location-based applications. We already saw Chris Davies take on the Pre's secret weapon, but after seeing Fandango pull of a simple additional step by creating a calendar ... continued »

If our live videos from CTIA aren't enough for you, how about another official demo video of the Pre from Palm themselves?  The follow-up to Palm's first teaser video, this new footage demonstrates the Fandango and Pandora functionality freshly announced this week. Fandango - which you can see our own video demo of here - not only allows you to browse films, ... continued »

Much has been made of webOS and Synergy on the Pre, and how Palm are betting the farm that users want harmonized digital lives.  With the announcement of iPhone OS 3.0, we've also looked at how Apple envisage similar things on the next-generation iPhone.  When it launches, the Pre will offer hitherto-unknown degrees of data integration; with the right developers, ... continued »

Palm is taking a page out of what Apple did to all of us two years ago when the company announced the iPhone 6-months prior to releasing it - driving all of us (waiting to buy one) nuts with short teaser-video clips. continued »