Rui CarmoPalm’s surprise entry for the newfangled “web-based smartphone” category.
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||
| May 29 | Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus now live on O2 UK | Do we still care after HP’s acquisition? |
| Apr 24 | Another Palm exec is out… and CEO Jon Rubinstein is next? | Weird. |
| Apr 23 | AT&T Palm Pre Plus unboxed in glorious, orange detail | Pre “Plus”? Hmmm. I must have dozed off. |
| HTC decides against bidding for Palm, kills our buzz | So, no dice. | |
| Palm CEO still thinks company can go it alone, open to webOS licensing deals | I’m getting this sense of deja vu from when they licensed the original Palm OS… | |
| Apr 20 | Palm’s web-based Ares SDK goes gold | Isn’t this, like, a little late? |
| Apr 14 | Palm may be for sale, but are its patents really valuable? | A bit more on Palm’s IPR. I would have thought they would be worth more at this point. |
| Apr 13 | Official: Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus hitting Vodafone and O2 Germany on April 28 | Took them long enough… |
| Mar 22 | RIP Palm: it’s over, and here’s why | It’s not the first time heralds of doom have blared their horns at Palm, but… |
| Mar 21 | Who will buy Palm? | In-depth analysis by “Jean-Louis Gassée”:Wikipedia:Jean-Louis_Gassee |
| Feb 26 | Palm’s webOS 1.4 emerges: screenshots galore | Not that different. Smoother, if anything. |
| Feb 07 | Palm Pre Plus (and Pixi Plus) review | A year later, and still not quite there (and with constant re-shufflings at the corporate level). |
| 2009 | ||
| Nov 14 | Mojo SDK 1.3.1 Now Available, featuring Pixi emulator support and docs enhancements | Well, can’t fault them for making sure the emulator matches the shipping versions. |
| Nov 12 | Palm Pixi review | I can’t really get excited about this one for some reason – maybe it’s the hardware keyboard. |
| Nov 09 | I’m Putting My Palm Pre on Notice | Not a keeper, then. |
| Sprint Palm Pixi unboxed on video | It’s a phone, comes in a box. | |
| Nov 05 | Time For Palm To Drop WebOS And Embrace Android | I was wondering when folk would start asking these kind of questions, but Palm already tried using someone else’s OS and got no good out of it… |
| Oct 27 | Palm Pixi on sale November 15 exclusively at Sprint for $100 on contract | Cheap, interesting – let’s see how good it really is. |
| Oct 19 | Dear Palm, it’s just not working out. | The ripples are still spreading, and will for weeks after this was written. |
| Oct 13 | First GSM Palm Pre now on sale in Germany, with new Euro-specific apps in tow | Not much detail on the apps. |
| Oct 7 | Palm Pre coming to Spain on Telefonica on October 14 | Makes sense. |
| Sep 23 | USB group none too happy with Palm’s iTunes hack, either | Bloody predictable |
| Jul 16 | Announcing webOSdev | Finally, a developer portal and SDK. |
| Jul 15 | iTunes 8.2.1 brings Pre’s music syncing capability to a halt | How very… predictable. |
| Jul 9 | Palm Pre Review | Praise for the software, but not the hardware. |
| Jul 7 | Official: Palm Pre launching in O2 and Movistar by end of year | Kind of makes sense. |
| Jul 1 | O2 Wins Exclusive on Pre in UK, Announcement in one week? | Ah well… |
| Jun 26 | Palm Has Half of the Business Plan Puzzle in Place | I’d actually say they have a quarter of their business plan in place, given Palm’s current presence (or lack thereof) in Europe. |
| Jun 23 | Ars reviews the Palm Pre, part 2: the webOS experience | The second installment, still wandering here and there but more interesting. |
| Jun 22 | iDesign * Pre | Great selection of wallpapers. |
| Jun 18 | In-depth review of the Palm Pre and the webOS | Late to the game, but chock full of videos. |
| Jun 10 | Ars Reviews the Palm Pre, part 1: the BlackBerry killer | The piece wanders here and there, makes a few cogent points, but does not convince me in the least. To beat the Blackberry, Palm needs to address corporate needs, not the personal ones the article waltzes through. |
| Palm Pre | A cogent and reasoned breakdown of the Pre’s Linux underpinnings | |
| Jun 4 | Designing the Palm Pre: An interview with Michelle Koh | This is the stuff that really matters – the tech is useless if there aren’t guiding design principles. |
| How Palm Designed the Pre | ||
| Jun 3 | Palm Pre review | Possibly the most detailed of them all. |
| Palm Pre, Elegant Contender | Pogue drains the battery in less than a day | |
| Multitasking Palm Pre Brims With Power, Potential | Steven Levy also mentions heavy battery drain, also thinks the keyboard is small. | |
| Palm’s New Pre Takes On iPhone | Mossberg emphasizes the app store’s current weak selection | |
| May 28 | Palm Pre First Hands On! | Some complaints regarding the keyboard. |
| Apr 29 | Palm Pre: $138 to build according to iSuppli | Considering they can’t possibly have gotten one yet, this raises questions about iSupply’s reputability… |
| Apr 2 | Palm Pre Classic emulator demoed on video | Doesn’t look half bad, although realistically there aren’t that many legacy apps that make sense using on a Pre, and the lack of personal data integration can be a downer. |
| Mar 3 | Is Vodafone in Negotiations with Palm for Pre Release? | Another link that falls under my Disclaimer |
| Feb 24 | The Pre’s Combined Messaging: Patent Pending | Some notes on Palm’s patents for the Pre |
| Feb 18 | Google demos HTML5-based Maps on the Palm Pre | This is why I think HTML5 is a big deal on mobile. |
| Feb 16 | Palm to add Flash support to webOS and Pre, joins Open Screen Project | It’s almost as if they’re ticking off a ‘beat the iPhone’ checklist. Multitasking, tethering, cut&paste, Flash… (more) |
| Palm joins Adobe’s Open Screen Project, Pre to support Flash – Engadget | ||
| Palm Pre Eyes-On, Plus Plenty of Pre Questions Answered | Rather nicely rounded article, even if the writer didn’t know that Gmail does have IMAP IDLE support. |
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| Feb 10 | GSM Palm Pre spotted with Vodafone SIM card – Engadget | Here’s something that falls squarely under my Disclaimer in more ways than one. |
| Jan 30 | Another Pre hands-on video with Palm’s VP of design | Not much to say other than there are glimpses of some interesting portions of the UI. |
| Jan 23 | Palm Pre: The Definitive FAQ | |
| Jan 13 | Palm Pre WebOS: hardware hands-on | The Reg fondles it, after having licked the UI |
| Jan 9 | The pre’s got Mojo: a developer speaks about Palm’s new SDK | Not much detail, though. |
| Palm Pre interface tour | Around 30 screenshots. | |
| Ars talks to Palm at CES, gets under the hood with the pre | Some info on the hardware (a TI OMAP 3430 “CPU”:Wikipedia:CPU) and the “App Catalog” | |
| Jan 8 | Palm Pre in-depth impressions, video, and huge hands-on gallery | Title says it all, really. |
| Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap | Missed the bit about Exchange support. A few other factual errors. | |