Posted on 12 March 2009 by Vincent Nguyen
My Pre managed to snag a 10-minute clip of the Pre being demoed during Sprint's invite-only webcast earlier today. Even though Sprint and Palm didn't reveal price or exact release date, the Palm Pre price plans have been confirmed. As far as the demo of the Pre goes, there isn't anything we haven't seen before at CES09 or MWC09. I ...
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Posted on 11 March 2009 by Vincent Nguyen
Unconfirmed reports from Spanish media outlets (translated)reported that subsidiaries of Telefonica would have exclusivity to the Palm Pre in Spain, United Kingdom, and Latin America. More specifically, O2 will offer the Pre in UK, and wireless customers of Movistar in neighboring countries such as Spain and Latin America will get the Pre. No details on price yet.
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Posted on 27 February 2009 by Vincent Nguyen
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.
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Posted on 25 February 2009 by Vincent Nguyen
RCR Wireless had a chance to sit down with Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO to discuss a number of things including the forthcoming Palm Pre. When asked about how long will Sprint have exclusivity on the Pre, Hesse stated Palm and Sprint agreed not to comment on it.
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Posted on 18 February 2009 by Chris Davies
As well as the various details Palm shared with us in our Pre meeting earlier this week, we also shot a huge video demo of the smartphone in action. That's finally uploaded and processed, and so we think you'll be as excited as we are at the prospect of a 26 minute video demo of the Palm Pre!
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Posted on 18 February 2009 by Chris Davies
At a Mobile World Congress demo this morning, Google's VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra showed the Palm Pre running a webapp version of Google Maps coded totally in HTML5, and which operated exactly as native software might. The app - which supported all the Pre's multitouch navigation, together with the usual search, zoom and other Google Maps functionality - takes ...
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Posted on 16 February 2009 by Chris Davies
When we weren't accidentally spotting GSM SIM cards in the Palm Pre, we were getting a closer look at its Synergy functionality. Synergy is Palm's answer to the multiple contacts lists, address books and schedules, bringing together multiple Exchange Active Sync accounts, GMail and Google Calendar, among other things, and presenting them in one hybrid interface. Today we ...
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Posted on 16 February 2009 by Chris Davies
Palm demonstrated the Pre's web browsing capabilities to us today, and so we wanted to share some video of that with you. They're calling it the full web experience on a mobile handset, and while that's something we've certainly heard before from other manufacturers the Pre does deliver.
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Posted on 16 February 2009 by Chris Davies
We've just finished up both a long video demo of the Pre - over 25 minutes, which we're currently editing and processing - but we wanted to share at least one detail from this morning. Palm aren't announcing the GSM version of the Pre at Mobile World Congress, but they've certainly got GSM handsets here to demo. The company wouldn't discuss ...
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Posted on 16 February 2009 by Chris Davies
It's Monday morning, the Pre Community team are in Barcelona and all around us are Palm Pre handsets; it can only mean one thing, we're at Mobile World Congress and getting ready for our meeting with Palm. We still don't know what exactly Palm might be announcing this week - though we're hoping for a GSM version of the Pre ...
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