Having revealed that sales of their webOS smartphones have proved disappointing in the past financial quarter, and downgrading their revenue expectations to “well below” the $1.6bn to $1.8bn initially predicted, Palm don’t look to be ready to give up the fight quite yet. An email from Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein to the company’s employees has [...]
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February 26th 2010 | Posted by Chris Davies
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February 22nd 2010 | Posted by Chris Davies
It seems like we’ve been waiting for webOS 1.4 for some time now, but according to PreCentral the much-anticipated update will begin to roll out come February 25th. That new date comes from a Verizon source, suggesting at the very least Pre Plus and Pixi Plus availability; there’s no word on when Palm Pre and [...]
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July 28th 2009 | Posted by kindaskimpy
In the States, Verizon Wireless, a company formed as a joint venture between American broadband and telecommunications company, Verizon Communications, and British mobile network operators, Vodafone Group, simply will not shut up about the fact …
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July 1st 2009 | Posted by Chris Davies
Palm have apparently confirmed that they will be making an announcement next week regarding the UK version of the Palm Pre. The news, says T3, will include which network has won exclusivity for the GSM handset in the UK, when exactly it will be available, and at what price.
Front-runners in the carrier contest have always been Vodafone [...]
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June 30th 2009 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
The European Palm Pre is definitely coming, but which carrier and when is the release date? To start to pin that down, we present a little old, a little new, and try not to leave you a little blue.
Pierre lets us know that the Palm France page on the Pre has recently switched over from "Information mode" to "register to be notified about the release date" mode, which we take to be a good sign. So perhaps our earlier "End of the year" estimates were a little pessimistic. The Pre spotting in the London tube also backs up a ’sooner rather than later’ guess.
So we don’t have an exact guess at the date but Fall seems likely. Now: which carrier? That picture is quite a bit muddier. When we had our hands-on with the GSM Palm Pre in February, the SIM card and service were most definitely Vodafone. More recently, however, we’ve been hearing that Vodafone won’t be the carrier from a few sources. One of them is Conor, who points us to this Vodafone Ireland forum post, where an moderator says no-go for the Pre on Vodafone in Ireland.
As Conor notes – if it ain’t Vodafone it’s most likely going to be O2 Ireland. If it’s O2 Ireland, O2 / Telefonica should be carrying it over the rest of their network. All of which goes against our gut instinct that Palm would be leveraging their long-standing relationship with Vodafone, but there it is.
Ah Rumors, we know you treat us bad, but we can’t stay mad at you.
Thanks to Conor and Pierre for the tips!
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May 19th 2009 | Posted by Palm Pre Phone
Remember how it all started? Although, it was a reeeeaaaaally loooooooong time ago, the first Palm Pre release date rumour in the US is still fresh in our memories. Fear not, the rumours will not …
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May 19th 2009 | Posted by Palm Pre Phone
A lot of excitement today since the US release date has been announced, which necessarily led us to the question – what about us in the UK? We have been at it and have some …
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April 27th 2009 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
While stateside we’re anxiously awaiting the Sprint Release of the Palm Pre, there’s the little issue of the European release still up in the air. According to Rethink Wireless, Palm’s getting close to nailing things down there as well:
The handset maker’s VP for EMEA, Paul Ghent, told Mobile Today that the company has "entered the final stages" of deciding its strategy and partners for Europe. "We’re close to a decision on our strategy for EMEA and we’re going through the final validation process at present," he said. "It’s important we take our time over this and get everything exactly right. The key is identifying where the big opportunities lie for us."
As we reported in January, Palm hired Ghent away from HTC to run sales for the European market. Ghent has a history of success with HTC, having helped to drive their Touch Diamond to record sales.
Palm has long struggled in the European market, where adoption of their PalmOS offerings has been historically weak. They’ve done slightly better with their Windows Mobile offerings, but the webOS and the Pre looks to be their best shot at challenging Nokia in the smartphone space.
As for carriers, all eyes are currently on Vodafone. Palm has worked closely with Vodafone before — launching the Treo 750v on their network long before it was available anywhere else. We have had previous reports that Vodafone was in negotiations for exclusivity on the Pre and, of course, we at PreCentral.net had some eyes-in time with a GSM version of the Pre running on Vodafone’s 3G HSPA network in Spain
As Pre-followers have come to accept understand by now: pricing and release dates are of course a complete mystery. For those in the US who are not interested in switch, there are further mysteries: Whether the GSM version of the Pre will be locked down to Vodafone’s network, whether it will contain US 3G bands, and whether or not it will prove to be as difficult to unlock at the iPhone has been.
Thanks to Fee Beyer for the tip!
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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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March 4th 2009 | Posted by Christian
A few days ago Palm WebOS Blog reported that they had learned through Tweakers.net (might want to visit that one with Google Translate unless you speak Dutch) that Vodafone is negotiating with Palm to release the Pre. In fact, Tweakers.net got information from the Palm representative for Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxumburg) that Vodafone was talking with Palm about an exclusive release for the first three months.
From Palm WebOS Blog:
It’s not clear at this stage where the negotiations are. Joost Galema, PR manager of Vodafone Netherlands, said that they are still …
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