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Palm Pre: 10-minute video clip from Sprint Webcast

March 12th 2009 | Posted by Vincent Nguyen

My Pre managed to snag a 10-minute clip of the Pre being demoed during Sprint’s invite-only webcast earlier today.  Even though Sprint and Palm didn’t reveal price or exact release date, the Palm Pre price plans have been confirmed.  As far as the demo of the Pre goes, there isn’t anything we haven’t seen before [...]

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Telefonica’s Movistar & O2 named wireless carriers in Europe for Palm Pre?

March 12th 2009 | Posted by Vincent Nguyen

Unconfirmed reports from Spanish media outlets (translated)reported that subsidiaries of Telefonica would have exclusivity to the Palm Pre in Spain, United Kingdom, and Latin America.  More specifically, O2 will offer the Pre in UK, and wireless customers of Movistar in neighboring countries such as Spain and Latin America will get the Pre.  No details on [...]

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New Palm Pre video demoing Synergy Calendar

February 27th 2009 | Posted by Vincent Nguyen

Palm is taking a page out of what Apple did to all of us two years ago when the company announced the iPhone 6-months prior to releasing it – driving all of us (waiting to buy one) nuts with short teaser-video clips.

I know there are many of you-Pre owner wannabe out there that’ll eat up [...]

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New Palm Pre video demoing Synergy Calendar

February 27th 2009 | Posted by Vincent Nguyen

Palm is taking a page out of what Apple did to all of us two years ago when the company announced the iPhone 6-months prior to releasing it – driving all of us (waiting to buy one) nuts with short teaser-video clips.

I know there are many of you-Pre owner wannabe out there that’ll eat up [...]

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Palm and Sprint working 24/7 on the Pre

February 25th 2009 | Posted by Vincent Nguyen

RCR Wireless had a chance to sit down with Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO to discuss a number of things including the forthcoming Palm Pre.  When asked about how long will Sprint have exclusivity on the Pre, Hesse stated Palm and Sprint agreed not to comment on it.

When asked about a scheduled release date for the [...]

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Palm and Sprint working 24/7 on the Pre

February 25th 2009 | Posted by Vincent Nguyen

RCR Wireless had a chance to sit down with Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO to discuss a number of things including the forthcoming Palm Pre.  When asked about how long will Sprint have exclusivity on the Pre, Hesse stated Palm and Sprint agreed not to comment on it.

When asked about a scheduled release date for the [...]

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Palm Pre 26 minute live video demo from MWC09!

February 18th 2009 | Posted by Chris Davies

As well as the various details Palm shared with us in our Pre meeting earlier this week, we also shot a huge video demo of the smartphone in action.  That’s finally uploaded and processed, and so we think you’ll be as excited as we are at the prospect of a 26 minute video demo of [...]

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Palm Pre gets HTML5 Google Maps app

February 18th 2009 | Posted by Chris Davies

At a Mobile World Congress demo this morning, Google’s VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra showed the Palm Pre running a webapp version of Google Maps coded totally in HTML5, and which operated exactly as native software might. The app – which supported all the Pre’s multitouch navigation, together with the usual search, zoom and other [...]

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Palm Pre Synergy Calendar video demo

February 16th 2009 | Posted by Chris Davies

When we weren’t accidentally spotting GSM SIM cards in the Palm Pre, we were getting a closer look at its Synergy functionality. Synergy is Palm’s answer to the multiple contacts lists, address books and schedules, bringing together multiple Exchange Active Sync accounts, GMail and Google Calendar, among other things, and presenting them in one [...]

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Palm Pre Web Browser video demo

February 16th 2009 | Posted by Chris Davies

Palm demonstrated the Pre’s web browsing capabilities to us today, and so we wanted to share some video of that with you. They’re calling it the full web experience on a mobile handset, and while that’s something we’ve certainly heard before from other manufacturers the Pre does deliver.

Start up the browser and as well [...]

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