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HP TouchPad tablet coming to Canada on July 15th

June 14, 2011June 15, 2011 drsquid Android, canada, Flash, google, Honeycomb, HP, iPad, iPad 2, Jon Rubinstein, launch, Mobile, palm, Pre, pre-order, Qualcomm, release, Samsung, smartphone, Synergy, tablet, TouchPad, Touchstone, video, webOS, Xoom0 comment

While the iPad and its successor, the iPad 2, are still the gold-standard for tablets, 2011 has already seen the release of a number of challengers for its throne. Both the recently released Motorola XOOM and RIM Playbook have some features that are better than the iPad, but neither of them has managed to recreate the “magic” that Apple infuses the iPad with. While most of the tablets still to come this year are going to Android Honeycomb based – Samsung, Toshiba, Dell, HTC, Lenovo, LG all have new models…

HP buys Palm!

April 28, 2010 Doug Groves business, Hewlett Packard, HP, palm, Palm Pre, Pixi, sale, webOS0 comment

Just in, Hewlett Packard has purchased ailing smart phone maker Palm Inc. for about $1 billion in cash. Palm has been up for sale recently. In fanboy circles, yours truly included, the hope was that Taiwanese manufacturer HTC would buy Palm, and do something spectacular with Palm’s webOS. So much for that dream. HP was always considered a possible suitor for Palm. This could be a good move for the computer manufacturer, as Dell, their chief rival in the US has recently shown a strong line up of mobility hardware…

Palm ditches ad agency Modernista

April 6, 2010April 6, 2010 Doug Groves advertising, Modernista, palm, Palm Pre1 Comment

Palm has decided they’ve had their fill of ads that either miss the mark with the female demographic, or just plain give a lot of people the willies. Though I was personally a fan of the initial dreamlike, David Lynch-esque ads with Canadian actress Tamara Hope, most people found them creepy. This is what Modernista co-founder and executive creative director Gary Koepke, who created the ads, had to say when they launched… “We weren’t trying to creep people out, but one thing I have learned now in this digital…

Palm sales ‘lower than expected’… it wouldn’t be the ads would it?

February 26, 2010February 26, 2010 Doug Groves palm, Palm Pre, Pixi, Verizon2 Comments

Well, this doesn’t spell good news for the future of WebOS. Palm’s ‘re-entry’ into the smart phone market has been less than spectacular. In fact, even with the launch of the ‘Plus’ versions of their Pre and Pixi devices, Palm still hasn’t managed to pull out of a sales slump. Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) today indicated that it expects that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 will be in the range of $285 million to $310 million on a GAAP basis and in the range of $300 million…

Palm Announces Pixi for US

September 9, 2009 Doug Groves palm, Pixi, Pre, webOS2 Comments

Like the cheeky little monkey that it is, Palm isn’t afraid to interrupt news from the big boys for their own new gadget announcement, even on 09-09-09. They today unveiled the long rumoured Palm Pixi, a slimmed down version the Pre. The new phone is coming to US carrier Sprint this holiday, and if the history of the Pre is any indicator, it’s likely to come to Bell a few months later. The design of the Pixi should be familiar to Palm Centro users, as it’s the same candy bar…

Palm Pre to launch on Bell Mobility in Canada

May 6, 2009May 7, 2009 Doug Groves palm, Palm Pre24 Comments

Word came down today that Palm’s last great hope will be coming exclusively to Bell Mobility in Canada. This isn’t really a surprise, given that Bell has always had a better selection of Palm devices than Canada’s other major CDMA carrier Telus. Just like the original announcement of it on Sprint, they’re being very cagey with the release date, saying nothing more than the 2nd half of 2009. When Palm announced the Sprint deal at the beginning of the year, all they stated was that it would be the first…

Palm Slashing Staff… And The Slow Bleed Continues

November 27, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves palm1 Comment

Caught this at ITNerd: It actually made me sad when the news that Palm is laying off up to ten per cent of its staff and cutting some product offerings hit Valleywag. Palm used to have a rather nice handheld OS and I have owned several Palm products over the years. But increased competition and increased focus in terms of churning out Windows Mobile OS devices has put Palm OS into the position of being a distant also ran. To be fair, there are rumblings of a new OS coming….