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It looks like Best Buy will most certainly be getting the Palm Pre, as a bright yellow banner advertising the Palm Pre has appeared on Best Buy’s website. The banner appears when you search for keys like “pre” or “palm pre”, though unfortunately it doesn’t give any additional information. Bummer.
When exactly will the Palm Pre be launched? Well, there are already a few dates floating around, and now a new picture showing a Palm Pre “launch lunch” on June 5th has surfaced. Of course, some people might doubt the legitimacy of the leaked information, as there is a typo in “Employee Benfits”, though there have been cases where typos appear on legitimate documents. What do you think? True or false? Drop us a comment and let us know what you think.
Is HP looking to step up its smartphone offerings, and tackle Apple, RIM and HTC? Well, that might be what the company has in mind, especially since former Palm executive, Jonathan Oakes’, LinkedIn profile lists a most to HP’s Emerging Businesses Unit, which includes iPAQs and other mobile related things. Perhaps his arrival will spur some new things from HP, and we certainly wouldn’t mind some cool and new products from HP.
Folks over in Canada will certainly welcome the official news that the Palm Pre will be available on Bell Mobility. This is obviously a CDMA device, and it’s too bad that neither Bell nor Palm have announced the pricing on the Palm Pre over in Canada. In terms of features, the device is similar to the Palm Pre that is being offered by Sprint, complete with EV-DO, 320 x 480 display, GPS, Wi-Fi and QWERTY keyboard, all powered by Palm’s webOS.
PalmOS certainly isn’t well known for its games, but that certainly doesn’t mean that it isn’t fun playing games on PalmOS. Handcase from Brazil has noted that, and has developed its games for the PC platform, which are actually ROM files that will run on the Palm emulator in your computer. The ROMs will set you back a few backs, but the good news is that the PalmOS emulator is going for free.
We’ve been hearing so much about the Palm Pre being on Sprint over the past few weeks that it’s good to hear that Bell Mobility will also be offering the device over in Canada in the second half of 2009. The device will be a Bell Mobility exclusive over in Canada, and it will certainly be interesting to see how the device fares up north.
We love to get news and leaks about upcoming products, but we’re always saddened when news comes out that employees have been fired for leaking information. Of course, leaking information isn’t the proper thing to do, especially when you’ve signed an NDA (non-disclosure agreement), but being fired does put the severity of the situation into perspective. It seems that Sprint has taken these drastic measures to three of its employees after they were talking about the highly anticipated Palm Pre outside of their workplace. We certainly would welcome more news of the Palm Pre, but hopefully it’s in a more cheerful tone in the future.
It seems like such a long time ago that the Palm Foleo was brought up, but now an analyst from Global Equities Research has dug it up again and suggested that Palm may actually resurrect the device to turn it into a $399 netbook which also integrated cellular wireless capability on board, thanks to Qualcomm’s GOBI chip which works with about all carriers. Palm hasn’t indicated anything regarding such a project just yet, but it certainly doesn’t seem to feasible for Palm to come out with such as device at this point in time.
This isn’t an official report by any means, but word is going around the Internet that Best Buy will be getting a limited inventory of Palm Pre handsets for a trial launch, scheduled for June 7th. If the rumor is true, about 4,500 units will be distributed throughout Best Buy Mobile locations across the country, ensuring the each and every Best Buy Mobile will be getting at least one Palm Pre. Possible pricing for the Palm Pre is $199.99 on a 2-year contract, and a whopping $999.99 to buy the phone outright.
We ran the news on the Palm Eos for AT a few days back, and now word is out that there might also be a CDMA version destined for Sprint’s network. According to the rumor, the device is currently being tested at Sprint, and should be available sometime in Q3 this year. Aside from its CDMA radio, it should be identical to the one that’s heading for AT&T.
Curious about the actual device behind all the blurriness on the rumored new Palm device? Well, the folks over at Engadget have managed to come up with a rather good illustration of answering what is out there. It seems that the device will be offered on AT&T, and will sport features such as:
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