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Remember those weird Palm Pre commercials? Well it looks like a lot of people didn't like them that much. And all this hasn't escaped Gary Koepke, the co-founder of Modernist, the ad agency behind the ads. Here's what he said about the Palm Pre campaign:

We weren't trying to creep people out, but one thing I have learned now in this digital age is people can be as rude as they want as long as they don't have to look you in the face. The Pre is probably being talked about more than other phones right now because of the marketing and advertising, and that's a good thing. Could the ads work harder to show exactly how the phone works? Yes, but we knew it would be polarizing people to have a woman not shout at them and tell an interesting story.

It's a very different look and feel for this sector. There's nobody involved in an iPhone ad, and 'Your life is on BlackBerry' -- isn't that great? Instead of having a life? We wanted a middle ground between those two places -- what about the people who want a really great smartphone?

Let's say we understand! We still like better other commercials. And the customers like them a lot more too. AT&T and Apple has sold over 5 million iPhones in the last quarter while RIM is selling lots of BlackBerry phones too. How many Pre units has Palm and Sprint sold so far? Did the commercials help increase that number? We can't say since we don't have any of those official numbers!

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The Touchstone is a remarkable dock for the Pre as it requires absolutely no wires to charge the newest Palm handset. And it looks like some Sprint stores are already selling the chargers days ahead of the actual Pre launch. Question is, why buy a charger if you don't have the guarantee of getting an actual Pre? And this Touchstone has been sold for $20 less than the regular asking price. Anyone care to explain?

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Here we go people! The rumors have started to come in about the arrival date of the Pre. Palm has announced that the new smartphone will be available in the first half of the year. Well it looks like that first half of the year means June for some of you. Sprint employees are being trained on that Pre. Here's what Sarah Lucy (a tech journalist) Twitters about it:

i honestly tried to bribe sprint employees to give me an unlocked pre. they're all training on them! i know they have them back there

So what do you think? Do you have a better source? In the mean time we're going to wonder if this tweet is true:

sprint employees told me the pre doesn't come out until JUNE! :(

via Twitter

Palm's next-generation smartphone is a touch-based device called the Pre, which features a 3.1-inch display with 320 x 480 resolution, and EVDO Rev. A for connectivity, as well as GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with stereo support. The Pre will come with an astonishing 8GB of on-board storage, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a replaceable battery, and a 3.5mm headset jack.

Its 3 megapixel camera with LED flash will be superior to what you would expect to find in a handheld device, and the next-generation mobile platform, called webOS, will include gesture-based input for interacting with the Pre. Look for the Pre to be released on the Sprint network in the first half of 2009. Palm says that it is also working on a WCDMA version of the Pre, although the release date on that version has not yet been announced.

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Is this the new Treo that Palm is getting ready for 2009? They have been plans for the upcoming year, but if they want to sell those phones they ordered, they need some good handsets.

This is the Treo Pro, supposed to work on Windows Mobile. So there's no Palm OS for now. The flash presentation was taken down from Palm's site leaving us wanting for more. We need specs, prices and launch date. In the mean time enjoy the screens!

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Palm Centro is reported to have surpassed the 2 million sold units barrier. How is that compared to Apple's iPhone sales? Who is going to win an iPhone vs Palm competition?

Provided Palm will continue to update their OS and launch better Centros, they are likely to continue to sell lots of handsets too. Maybe not as many as Apple which appears to learn more and more things about the mobile business and even reinvent it in some cases.

AdMob statistics shows that more mobile ads are served to Palm devices than iPhones, whether we are talking worldwide or USA. Of course Palm has been selling phones for far longer than Apple has but the battle is about to begin.

Looking at both phones, the iPhone seems to have a little advantage at this time, with all the buzz going around it. Palm Centro is still going to be a worthy adversary and its fans will be waiting for lots of upgrades, including touchscreens, but not only.

So congrats to Palm for now, but we're expecting more!

It looks like Palm hasn't forgotten what it's best known for, PDAs. One&Co has teamed up with Palm to bring out a looker, the Zire 72. Focusing mainly on media-centric functions, the Zire 72 has a 1.3-megapixel camera with 2x zoom and video recording at 320x240 pixels. Along with the MP3 and video player, the device carries a 320x320 transflective screen to display bright and crisp images with its 65k colors. Running on Palm OS v5.2.8, the Zire 72 is also endowed with pretty good power with a 321MHz Intel PXA270 processor and 32MB of RAM, which may seem low but just enough for a PDA. It sports 24MB of internal memory which can be expanded via MMC, SD, and SDIO cards.

Priced at $100, the Zire 72 PDA is available on Amazon and other online stores.

Palm has recently announced the availability of its feature laden Centro Smartphone in Columbia with Comcel and Movistar. The company unveiled that it has successfully sold its one-millionth Palm Centro in the United States. This compact cell phone lets the users easily manage emails and text messages. Stay up to date with the latest news. You can access the Google Maps to find directions while travelling.


Quick Facts:

• Fast and easy web access on EDGE networks
• With Pocket Tunes manage audio books, music, and videos easily.
• Integrated digital camera
• Full Keyboard
• Push Technology
• Instant Messaging facility

Other market fetching features of PalmCentro include touch screen, conference calling, ignore a call with text messaging, one-touch speakerphone, and Bluetooth(R) connectivity. To know more about the Palm Centro smartphone visit Palm

Formerly available only for Sprint, Palm has crossed over to bring you the Palm Centro for AT&T for US$99 after a mail-in rebate. Palm Centro is a device which boasts easy text messaging and email due to its full QWERTY keyboard and touch screen display. With the Centro, you can communicate with friends, family, and co-workers not only with email and text but also instant messaging and voice messaging. With AT&T as your network, you get to enjoy Push to Talk, XM Radio Mobile, and MusicID on the Centro. And of course, you also get access to AT&T's EDGE network. You can get AT&T's Palm Centro in AT&T's retail stores as well as online in the AT&T and Palm web sites.

In the midst of Palm's struggles to get out of their precarious situation, an unlocked version of the Palm Centro is now available for European markets. We don't know what colors will be available yet, although it seems they'll start off with the basic black. If you've forgotten, Palm Centro features a 320x320 pixel touchscreen display, a full QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 megapixel camera, and runs on Palm OS Garnet v5.4.9. The Palm Centro will sell for £199 in the UK and in other European countries, for €299. It will ship on February 14, 2008.

A new ROM update for the Treo 755p has just been released under the name ROM version 1.07. And guess what -- Palm describes it as:

This software update is a tune-up that improves audio, stability, software quality and device usability.

Can't be any vaguer than that. With the way the description's written, the update might be mere bug fixes and the like. But hey, then again, a vague update is better than your OS collecting cobwebs, right? It takes around 45 minutes to completely update to Palm Treo 755p ROM version 1.07. Different installation methods for Windows and Mac are available.

See the update info page.

Palm really has fallen upon hard times as it announces shutting down seven out of their eight retail stores. Only their Sunnyvale, California branch will remain open. Aside from shutting down their retail stores, Palm also announced shutting down 26 Airport Wireless stores. Palm has taken a beating from competitors as of late. Their lack of OS updates only adds to their predicament. Furthermore, customers who bought the Treo 600 or 650 have eligible for replacements due a class-action suit, still adding to Palm's current crisis. It's heartbreaking for old Palm fans to see this unfold. But it'll equally interesting to see how Palm will take the projected $320 million losses by this quarter.

Palm has been generating a new generation of OS for quite some time now. There have been many speculations on what it would be named. It has been learned recently, however, that the new Palm codename inside the company is Palm Nova. Not much is known about this new OS as of current, other than Palm is reportedly beta-testing it on an unreleased Palm device. The company is developing the OS to be unveiled officially by late 2008 with the purpose of releasing the new Palm device by around February 2009.

Here is MobileWhack's Top Ten Cell Phones of 2007.

1stApple iPhone Cell Phone
2ndSamsung F700 Cell Phone
3rd Motorola Razr2 V8
4th LG Shine
5th Palm Centro SmartPhone
6th RIM Blackberry 8310 SmartPhone
7th Helio Ocean Phone
8th Samsung BlackJack 2
9th Nokia 95 8GB Version
10thSony Ericsson K810 Cybershot Camera Phone
11thLG Veiwty
12thHTC Shift

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Here is our list of the Top 10 Cell Phone Companies of 2007 based open performance and growth for the year.

1st Samsung - Been quite a amazing this year for them, answered all of their competitors moves in every sector not just phones.
2nd Apple - 5 million iphones in 6 months, enough said.
3rd Blackberry
4th Nokia
5th LG
6th Sony
7th HTC a bit of a surpise, these people are small outfit from Hungary lol amazing.
8th Motorola
9th Palm
10th Meizu rip offs in China

Here is a video introduction I found of Googles Andriod Platform.

Can Palm make a comeback in 2008?, once a almighty company that laughed at its rivals attempts to compete with them, it is now sadly facing the biggest struggle for surival of its live. 2007 has been a very horrible year for Palm and everyone is at a lost for a reason why. Everybody knows Palm, their phones are world class, whole communities (like Apple and Blackberry have) are dedicated discussing everything Palm. God can only hope that it doesn't go the way of Sony's walkmans. But really when you think about it a bit, Palm has still got so much going for it, they cuts cost recently (But Sadly Job cuts), they got a new CEO (Former Apple executive, you can't get better than that), the brands still strong, there products are great and hopefully they will have a million geeks behind them in 2008. I think all they need now is Google Andriod and their set.

It seems that a treocentral forum user, who goes by the name of Malatesta, found some interesting information regarding 4 projects that Palm is currently at work on and one of them is quite possibly the Palm W800. Apparently the user was reading emails exchanged between Palm and the FCC and dug up four code names of current Palm development. He then goes on to explain how he came to his conclusions about how the Palm W800 may very well be on the way. You can head over to treocentral and check out the original forum post to see for yourself.

Palm's in trouble big trouble once a global leader in producing awesome smartphones, Palm this year has had a very hard time competing in this sector. Even bringing out awesome products such as the Palm treo 755p has not helped there fortunes, basically they have totally stuffed up there marketing and product promotion this year, as well as other companys like RIMM and Apple coming on the scene doing a better job in the sector. Today Palm announced that there earnings that will be reported soon will be down and that a new product that was to be announced before XMAS holidays will be delayed, so there goes the Xmas sales for them. One can only hope their turn around in 2008 will save them.

Silicon Valley based Elevation, has purchased a 25% stake in Palm Inc. for a total of $325 million USD. Palm cited the reason for the sale as a need to get the company out of debt and back on track. The purchase by Elevation will cause a drastic change of the Palm hierarchy. Former Apple VP Jon Rubenstein will join Palm as the new executive chairman of the board. The Palm board will also increase in size from 8 to 9 members. The share dividend of the sale is reported to be at $950 million. This move was announced by Palm as far back as June 4, but only recently did the acquisition receive shareholder approval.

Palm afficianados (and Vodafone customers) can look forward to the new Palm Treo 500v smartphone unveiled at London today, boasting 3G/UMTS high-speed internet access on the mobile phone. Based on Windows Mobile 6, the Treo 500v features a full-fledged keyboard, support for streaming videos - that's right, YouTube comes to your Palm now - a large screen and apps for IM. Initially available for Vodafone customers in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the UK and South Africa, the Treo 500v is bundled with the usual slew of Microsoft office applications including Outlook. There's also Windows Live for Windows Mobile.

One of the niceties of the Treo 500v is that it allows your laptop to share data access with the mobile phone, effectively letting you stay online within Vodafon's coverage area. There's also Vodafone live!, a portal for news, sports and entertainment. Palm has also thrown in a 2.0 megapixel camera. On board, there's 150 megs of memory, with support for microSD memory cards. Bluetooth support rounds up the feature list.

Available in two colors: glacier white and charcoal gray.

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Electric Pocket's Ringo Mobile, the leading ringtone manager for Pocket PC Phones and Windows Mobile Smartphones, now supports Windows Mobile 6.0. Along with this comes other features and more options for identifying incoming callers.

This new feature lets users identify who is calling with an MP3 or a glance at a picture on the screen. Among the new features of Ringo Mobile is the ability to quickly and easily associate a picture or other graphic to appear when incoming calls arrive.

Ringo has long been the best selling ringtone manager for Palm's Treo smartphones, such as the Palm OS-based Treo 755p and the Windows Mobile-based Treo 750w, with features such as playing MP3 tunes as ringtones and assigning ringtones to individual callers or groups of callers.

Ringo Mobile is available from the Ringo web site at ringomo.com for US$24.95.

Someone tipped off Gizmodo today with some great info on the upcoming Treo 800w, which is set to be released in Q4 2007. Apparently the 800w will features lots of improvements for Sprint users, including EV-DO Rev. A, 320x320 display, 128MB RAM, 256MB flash, Windows Mobile 6, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, an expansion slot, and a 1.3-megapixel camera.

Someone tipped off Gizmodo today with some great info on the upcoming Treo 800w, which is set to be released in Q4 2007. Apparently the 800w will features lots of improvements for Sprint users, including EV-DO Rev. A, 320x320 display, 128MB RAM, 256MB flash, Windows Mobile 6, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, an expansion slot, and a 1.3-megapixel camera.

Heres a picture of the new Palm Gandolf phone which was posted on the news blog Morning Paper. The pictures reveals a qwerty keyboard and also provide information about its features including: an integrated camera, Bluetooth, EVDO, and removable MicroSD. The picture has the likeness of a newpaper clipping, possibly a photoshop job?

Heres a picture of the new Palm Gandolf phone which was posted on the news blog Morning Paper. The pictures reveals a qwerty keyboard and also provide information about its features including: an integrated camera, Bluetooth, EVDO, and removable MicroSD. The picture has the likeness of a newpaper clipping, possibly a photoshop job?