After Palm reported to Wall Street that sales performance of their new webOS-based smartphones was far below original expectations, CEO Jon Rubinstein sent an email to all Palm employees explaining in more detail the reasons for their disappointing financial results and the steps the company is taking to right the ship. Below is the text [...]

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At first you may have waited for the Palm Pre and Pixi to be available on Verizon before you pulled the trigger. Then, maybe you decided to wait a little longer in hopes of a price drop. If you have had the patience of Job, then you may want to head over to Best Buy [...]

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According to Gartner and their newly-released report of annual worldwide smartphone sales, webOS handsets (Palm) own less than 1% of total market share and face a long uphill road to expand that market share. When compared to Goliaths like Symbian, Research In Motion and the iPhone, the webOS platform lags far behind, even lagging behind [...]

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Good news for Palm Pixi owners who happen to be die-hard PalmOS Classic fans. If you are one of the Classic-lovers who migrated to webOS but still use some legacy PalmOS apps and/or like the look and feel of the old PalmOS, MotionApps has come to the rescue. MotionApps has adjusted their popular PalmOS emulator [...]

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Our sister site, PhoneArena, has posted up a Verizon document that details the specifications for the new Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus smartphones. The Pre Plus will double the internal memory of the Sprint model to 16GB, include a 3.1″ capacitive display with 320×480 resolution and multi-touch support, slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, [...]

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The Palm App Catalog continues to steadily grow with each passing day, and now it looks like it will pass the 1,000 app mark either by the end of the year, which is now upon us, or very early in 2010. As more apps fill up the catalog, the webOS platform will become further entrenched [...]

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One of the nice features of using a webOS-based handset like the Palm Pre or Pixi is that it is always connected to the “cloud”, keeping your data safe and backed-up via the Palm Profile. Connecting with the “cloud” is effective for those pesky times when you accidentally run over your Pre or Pixi with [...]

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It’s been a little while since we reported on the happenings in the App Catalog. Recently, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein said that “several thousand” new webOS apps would be coming with the release of the Ares development platform. As of Friday, the App Catalog stands at 843 apps — dwarfed by the iPhone and even [...]

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During Palm’s investor conference call, CEO Jon Rubinstein confirmed the imminent release of the webOS 1.3.5 update and then outlined the improvements that we can expect. The 1.3.5 update will offer the following:

Increase the limit for more app installation
Improved battery life
Increased speed for the Pixi
Improved WiFi and app performance

Also, Mr. Rubinstein emphasized that Palm will [...]

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The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be the venue for another Palm-hosted event to be held on Thursday, January 7th at 11 a.m. Palm has extended invitations to the media to attend and learn what Palm has to offer in 2010 and beyond. Attendance of the event is by invitation only. It [...]

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