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Amazon Selling Discounted Palm Pre

Monday, 23 November 2009 19:54 Written by Chris 0 Comments

Palm PreThe Palm Pre carried by American wireless carrier Sprint just saw another price drop with third-party retailers with several stores, including Amazon.com, significantly lowering the Pre’s price tag since the release of the Pixi.

The Pre, Palm’s new flagship smartphone sporting a sleek design, large touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, has been dropped to only $79.99 on the Amazon web site with a two-year service agreement. The Pixi, in comparison, is now $99.99 with a two-year agreement.

Palm is obviously targeting solid holiday sales for its new handsets with this change in price-point – take advantage if you’ve been waiting!

Palm Adds iTune Syncing to webOS 1.2.1

Saturday, 03 October 2009 22:02 Written by Chris 0 Comments

Palm PreDespite not including iTunes syncing in the webOS 1.2 update last Tuesday, Palm has released version 1.2.1 to include just that option today.

Functional with both the Palm Pre and the upcoming Palm Pixi, webOS 1.2.1 flies in the face of Apples efforts to eliminate media synchronization with iTunes 9.0.1 in offering that features, along with repairing a bug with Microsoft Exchange.

Palm has been at odds with Apple over its marketing the Pre as an iTunes-compatible phone and the USB Implementers Forum has recently joined the fray in Apples defence, suggesting that Palm may be legally unauthorized to offer such a service. No resolution has come yet and it would appear that the Pre maker is prepared to battle it out in the meantime.

Palm has stated that this update will roll-out to users over the air over the next few days.

Palm Issues webOS 1.2 Update OTA

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 17:45 Written by Chris 1 Comment

Palm PrePalm has begun pushing the webOS 1.2 update over-the-air to users of their flagship Pre handsets. The update brings new functionality, improvements on existing features and several bug fixes.

Some notable increases to functionality include the ability to purchase and download via the App Catalog and download over-the-air from the Amazon MP3 store. The expected re-addition of iTunes media sync support was not added following opposition from Apple following the last webOS update.

A full list of features and fixes can be found on Palm’s official web site.

Palm Pre Sales Disappoint

Monday, 21 September 2009 18:52 Written by Chris 1 Comment

Palm PreAfter many months of hype followed by excellent reviews across the board, Palm is reporting that sales of its new flagship Pre device are much lower than originally anticipated. Palm shipped a total of 823,000 smartphones during its first quarter with an estimated 500,000 of those Pre devices. Those numbers are down sharply from both last year and projected sales for the Pre given the marketing campaign Palm surrounded it with.

While the ongoing economic troubles around the world have surely played a role, the outstanding sales of other handsets during their debuts in the past two years suggest that Palm has simply lost its user-base. With the Pre having only been released in North America, the numbers generated by the European launch later this year remain to be seen.

Palm indicated that revenues could fall to $240 million to $270 million US in the second quarter, a number that implies that Pre sales could fall to 500,000 units versus our previous estimate of 750,000 units. – Needham & Co. analyst Charlie Wolf

With Palm’s recent announcement that they would no longer develop devices using the Windows Mobile operating system in favor of their in-house WebOS, the company seeks to stay in the game against high-end competition like Apple’s iPhone and the Blackberry Storm through innovative software as well.