Palm Pre + EA Mobile = Zzzzzz…

It’s a funny thing about Palm - they occupy the same space this year that Motorola did around the time of MWC last year. As in, mostly everybody you ask thinks the company is now kind of irrelevant. But a year of blazing announcements, changes in philosophy and incredible phones has pulled Motorola back into the limelight. So what wonders does Palm have lined up?

Qt for Symbian hastens development by 200%

Rating: But it ain’t that good yet, says Tamoggemon
Tam Hanna from Tamoggemon claims to be “among the first vendors to finish development of an application using Qt for Symbian.” He claims there are still various hole in this development environment, though.
Hana commented, “Of course, Qt still has significant weaknesses which make the mass distribution of [...]

GoMo grapples with social networking apps

Rating: Not much luck with Ovi/Facebook and Zbang
GoMo News isn’t having much luck this week with social networking apps for mobile phones. For starters, Zbang’s claims to have a mobile element turned out to be exaggerated. Then Facebook for Nokia wouldn’t work.
Having seen a teaser on Facebook for apps aimed at the mobile phone owning [...]

ComScore’s figures for US show Apple and RIM doing well

Rating: Symbian not to popular in North America
In the USA, ComScore has just finished calculating how the top smartphones fared by market share in October. This info relates only to the USA where Symbian is relatively weak, however. Android doesn’t come out of it too well, either,
This research seems to be something of a scoop [...]

Google mobile updates hit movies and coupons

If you’re working in any area of mobile or on-line services, the presence of Google in your market is as constant as death or taxes. It’s always worth keeping an eye on what it’s up to - and this week Google has advanced its mobile platform in both search and coupons.

Struggles with Samsung H1 touch UI

Rating: Canalys report says I’m not alone
It says something about a user interface when you’re forced to trawl Google to look for the handset’s manual. Sadly, that’s what has happened with the Vodafone 360 H1. GoMo News has the correct URL is anyone’s interested here http://tinyurl.com/y9omelp.
You’ll need that URL because there’s currently a bugette on [...]

Palm to go E-Commerce BETA for Apps

Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) announced that starting today developers who wish to charge for their Palm webOS(TM) applications can begin submitting them for consideration in the Palm(R) App Catalog e-commerce beta program, which will begin in mid-September.
Developers selected to participate in the beta program will have the opportunity to have their applications, both free and [...]

Is mobile maker Palm making the right call by dropping WinMo?

At a conference call for profits in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, Palm reported not only a drop in profits but also a drop of the Windows Mobile OS. Facing an increase in net loss over over $120 million, Palm announced that it will no longer be making devices for Windows Mobile and will concentrate on WebOS instead.

WorthPoint Launches New Mobile Application for Palm, Android and iPhone

WorthPoint Corporation on Thursday announced the availability of a new Mobile Application – a natural extension of its increasingly popular subscriptions.

China Unicom confirms iPhone deal as Telecom talks to Palm

As predicted earlier this week, China Unicom has confirmed that it will be exclusively selling the iPhone in China. This has ended months of speculation about the fate of the smartphone in China - and China Telecom didn’t want to feel left out. It has announced today that it is in negotiations with Palm about a possible Chinese device, as well as continuing talks with RIM.

China Telecom: major news with mobile devices, and Alcatel-Lucent

China Telecom seems to have splurged all of its mobile device related news in one go today. There are three separate moves it has made with devices since yesterday - along with an announcement regarding network provider Alcatel-Lucent.

Who’s that looking in my window? It’s just the Palm Pre.

The most recent explosion of paranoia concerning mobile devices has been caused by the Palm Pre. Blogger and Debian developer Joey Hess has claimed that by digging around in the software of his Pre, he discovered that it was regularly sending information back to Palm. Information about his location, what apps he was using, and how often he was using them. The Palm privacy policy seems to cover this, but a lot of people are upset about the apparent betrayal from the phone manufacturer.

Palm Pre gets mobile finance app right out of the gate

Intuit announced today that it is releasing an application for Pre phones to turn them into credit card terminals. The GoPayment application would allow users to process credit card payments through the device from anywhere they can get a conneciton.

The application is available free from the Pre App Catalog right now. But in order to [...]

Sprint hits sales record for Palm Pre device

I read this release on the Palm Pre and thought – yikes Palm. Aren’t they dead?
Anyway, I decided to check out the Palm Pre as I remember the first ever Palm and I remember testing it when I worked at Sony for competitiveness.
So, I had a pretty big shock when I saw this.

Yikes – that [...]

Palm tries a bit too hard with new commercial

There’s a new commercial released for the Palm Pre, and while it’s certainly very pretty it doesn’t really tell you much about the phone.

The ad is supposed to show how the Pre (and this is a direct quote) lets you “effortlessly flow among all your life’s diverse dimensions.” And that sentence just makes me snigger. [...]

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