Dear Santa,

I know you’re a busy guy and I really should have sent you this letter much earlier, but I know that if anybody could pull off the “Christmas miracle,” it’s you. I’ve tried my best to be a good blogger this year. I know sometimes I’ve aggravated my readers, but I said what I said because I thought it needed to be said. That’s being a good boy, right?

Anyway, I hope that you get this list before you take off from your North Pole base of operations. Below is a list of what I’d really really really like to see on Christmas morning. If it’s not there, I understand, but if it is I promise to be extra good next year. I’m not trying to be greedy, I just want you to know that there’s a lot of stuff that would make me happy. Snow, though one of those things, does not count in the gift tally.

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I’ve been a loyal Palm user for many years. Going back to the old Palm M105 I’ve been a Palm diehard, up through the Tungsten T, Tungsten T3 (best PDA ever), a Treo 650, Treo 755p, and now the Palm Pre. Don’t get me wrong, I really do like the Palm Pre and believe that it is the best smartphone on the market and webOS certainly has more potential than any other platform, but years of observation have left me somewhat jaded on the future of Palm.

This time one year ago I was lost as to what my next phone was going to be. My Sprint contract was close to being up for renewal and while I was still a fan of the old Palm OS, it simply couldn’t compare to the offerings from Apple and Google. Problem is, Android a year ago was still pretty darned rough around the edges and even then I didn’t like the idea of being locked in the Apple iPhone ecosystem. And Sprint, oh poor lowly Sprint, they didn’t have a single new phone that I found really appealing. My Treo was by no means in bad shape – the 755p was a tank, after all – but I’m a self-professed technology whore and I had a bad hankering for the latest.

Thankfully, it wasn’t much longer before Palm revealed webOS and the Pre. I though I was saved, and through the next six months that it took for Palm and Sprint to finally ship the phone I read everything I could about it, jumped back into discussion of the phone and Palm, and eventually came to be a writer and editor for PreCentral. The Pre finally landed in my hands on launch day and I couldn’t have been happier.

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My Pre were invited to meet with representatives from Palm and O2 this afternoon, to discuss today’s announcement regarding the European GSM Pre. While there were several members of Palm and O2’s core and PR teams, the meeting was primarily led by Dave Whalen, senior VP for Palm’s global sales, and Jonathan Earle, head of [...]

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This one took me a while to realize, but maybe the small supply of Pre phones available at launch is a GOOD thing for Palm and Sprint. Earlier in the year, I took a look at why the Ready Now program from Sprint was ESSENTIAL in the success of the Pre, and with the leak [...]

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Palm’s Eos has been the surprise leak of the day, with details about the rumored smartphone spilling out across the net.  Although the handset is nowhere near official, there’s enough detail to at least compare and contrast the Eos with the Pre.  It seems clear that the Eos is aiming to take the spot currently [...]

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If Synergy is all about collating your data onto one device, Universal Search is webOS’ attempt to make finding information more straightforward.  We’ve already seen how the Pre automatically takes you through on-device content; today, we’re thinking about how Palm may leverage internet and guided-searches for off-device content.

First, a recap on how searching on the [...]

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Much has been made of webOS and Synergy on the Pre, and how Palm are betting the farm that users want harmonized digital lives.  With the announcement of iPhone OS 3.0, we’ve also looked at how Apple envisage similar things on the next-generation iPhone.  When it launches, the Pre will offer hitherto-unknown degrees of data [...]

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It came as little surprise that Apple announced their iPhone OS 3.0 event on the exact same day many were eagerly anticipating the Sprint Palm Pre webcast.  Even before the Sprint webcast had started, commentators and would-be buyers were asking whether Apple had been given enough lead-time from the Palm’s CES unveiling to generally replicate [...]

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