The board of directors at Palm has made it official that Jon Rubinstein is the new CEO of the company to replace Ed Colligan. Ed Colligan stepped down after sixteen years of service to the company.
Palm is grateful about the contribution of Rubinstien in bringing back a streak of hope to the company in the shape of Pre.
Rubinstein was the former head of iPod hardware thus a confidante of Jobs and Apple. Rubinstein used his iPod days memories to create the Pre, which now is considered as the real competitor of the iPhone 3G S.
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I have made the iPhone the most expensive mobile in the world in a span of 11 months. This is the main reason why it won't be so easy for me to switch to Pre even if someone has to waterboard me to do so. You no doubt are in the same situation.
Here is the fact about how lavishly we all have ornamented the iPhone.
I paid only $199 for my iPhone 3G, you paid $299 if you have the 16GB version. Do you know the exact worth of the device with all the purchased applications, songs, movies on it?
Today, I Read More...
The long awaited Palm Pre is not only iPhone killer but is also going to be iTunes stealer. Fortune has a report that the Pre syncs seamlessly with iTunes.
iTunes just recognize the Pre as an iPhone or an iPod touch with the exception that it cannot handle old copy protected songs. This is the first open invasion that Apple is going to combat. Tim Cook earlier has said that Apple would use all available means to fight for the intellectual property of the company.
Jon Rubinstein who was behind the building of the original iPod seem to have done a lot Read More...
2009 summer would be specially remembered as the season of smartphone. Come June there would be avalance of smartphones coming from renown phone makers. It's going to be a tough competition for the makers and for consumers there would be some confusion deciding what to purchase.
Some of the notable names and their expected launch dates are:
Palm Pre: The killer phone that runs on a new operating system WebOS, which also has been considered as iPhone killer would start selling from June 6. This comes ahead of the expected new iPhone launch.
Apple's iPhone(s): The launch of the new iPhone is expected during Read More...
What is good for Jobs could be bad for Ballmer and vice versa. The latest development could however, be good for both. Andrew reported that Apple is in talk with Verizon to launch two new products somewhere in 2010. Seems Apple is not the only one eying for the big red company, Microsoft is also in the fray having serious talks to use the network operator as a means to take down the iPhone.
If this is true (if you only believe in whatever crap Wall Street Journal says), I should say it's time for the losers to rise and fight the Read More...
The name "Palm" was once synonymous to the world Smartphone, but not anymore after being overtaken by RIM earlier and thereafter Apple. The announcement of Palm's fully functional touchscreen Pre was kind of a last resort for the company to regain their lost popularity status.
Many of us thought that Palm Pre is an iPhone killer for having features that the iPhone does not. Seems like the iPhone won't go down the gutter when the Pre is launched in June in view of iPhone OS 3.0 announcement. Apple demoed more than hundred enhancement features, which developers are trying to figure out Read More...
Orange has announced the launch of BlackBerry Bold in the UK on August 16. BlackBerry Bold is one of the products that RIM has lined up to compete with the iPhone. Later this year, RIM will also be launching an iPhone look-alike touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder. T-Mobile too is waiting for September to launch the BlackBerry Bold.
The most interesting part of the deal is that the handset might be given away for free provided RIM faithfuls are willing to sign the mandatory 18 month contract and pay £45 per month. Moreover, it is also rumored that business enterprises might get special packages. Now, Read More...
It’s just one of those days where I keep running into satire—and it’s so annoyingly subtle that I’m not even sure it’s there. I just wrote about Apple’s “miserable weekend sales” in “Apple hatred at its worst!,” and now here’s another one.
Chris Green at ITPro claims that Microsoft is planning a Zune-based smartphone. This is what he says:
…such a device is in the works, which is great news as it would easily provide respectable competition to Apple’s iPhone.
All the components are in place – Windows Mobile as the underlying OS, the Zune user interface for the front-end, tweaked and extended…
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What can you do with the Voyager? What can't you do? It's got a fairly good web browser that's plenty fast; unlike the iPhone, the Voyager has a 3G radio inside, so it's as zippy as it gets on a cell phone. No, you don't always get picture-perfect pages like you do with the iPhone, but the rendering is way better, at least, than Mobile IE. There's room for improvement...
-Yahoo Tech
Rating against iPhone 2.5/5. Read more.
Just spent some time looking around, and I have to say the App store is very exciting. Almost two hundred games, lots of options in all categories, and--get this--over five hundred apps on the very first day!
You need to pay for most of them, and the prices range from $1.99 to $ 9.99. The App store interface is, as expected, excellent: you get all the basic information about the app when you click on it, including price, download size, and link to the developer's support pages:
There's a brief FAQ in place, which tells you how to install on your iPhone, Read More...
We will not consider the Secret as a potential iPhone 3G killer. The first-gen iPhone possibly, but not in its latest incarnation. The Secret isn’t nearly as sexy, and it’s missing headline features like GPS, Wi-Fi, support for third-party applications (not counting the measly selection of Java apps that are compatible with most feature phones) and a decent-sized flash drive – the Secret comes with an anaemic 100MB of internal memory, making expansion with a microSD card (up to 4GB is supported) almost mandatory.
--Jereth Orantia, APC Magazine
Rating against iPhone: 1/ 5. Read more.
Apple is working on an iPhone version which has a slide-out keyboard. This iPhone version will take on BlackBerry on its own turf, and, rather than simply fend off a bunch of me-too devices and “iPhone killers”, would actually go out in the streets looking for kill.
Steve Jobs has sent out prototypes--not mockup phones, but actual, working phones to some senior executives at all the major operators, and wants their opinion about whether people will be interested in such a phone. The keyboard has some issues which have not been resolved, but it is a prototype after all.
True story. See Read More...
