Treo and PalmOS news
May 1, 2008 04:55 PM
Palm Centro gets City Chase participants to finish line
Palm, Inc. and City Chase Inc. today announced that Palm Centro smartphones will aid thousands of U.S. contestants competing in physical, intellectual and humorous challenges during the 2008 City Chase events in eight major cities - Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Boston, Seattle and Chicago. Over four months, the Palm Centro will help teams complete tasks, search for ChasePoints and ultimately win a spot in the national and world championships of the City Chase urban-adventure race.
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April 18, 2008 06:47 PM
Palm launches Centro in Columbia with Comcel and Movistar
After recently announcing the sale of its one-millionth Palm Centro in the United States, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today introduced its popular smartphone in Colombia through Comcel and Movistar.
With a fun, new compact design, Centro is Palm's smallest and lightest smartphone. Centro helps users manage email and text messaging, keep track of their schedules, stay up-to-date on the latest news, capture and share pictures, and get directions on Google Maps -- all in one small, fun compact phone. Its full keyboard also makes it easy to quickly type text messages and emails with complete thoughts and ideas. Centro has everything a person needs to stay organized and connected with everyone who is important to them, whether it's family, friends or co-workers, and it's particularly attractive to users who are migrating to their first smartphone.
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April 7, 2008 08:55 PM
Viva el Centro
Palm is clearly very good at carrier relations. Palm smartphones that start out popular in America and Europe quickly spread to carriers throughout those continents and elsewhere in the world.
Recently, Palm announced significant new carrier deployments of the Centro smartphone. StarHub Mobile is rolling out the device in Singapore, and Telcel and Movistar are releasing the phone in Mexico. The Centro is being rolled out in Mexico in blue, a new color.
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April 4, 2008 06:21 AM
Microsoft demonstrates new Windows Mobile 6.1 for mytreo.net
Microsoft announced version 6.1 of Windows Mobile this week at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas. mytreo.net's Alli Flowers attended the conference, met with Microsoft and recorded a video of the company demonstrating their new platform version. This long awaited updated brings a host of new features, including a better than iPhone web browsing experience, flashlight, threaded text messaging and improved today screen.
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April 4, 2008 06:00 AM
Pick-up line contest
Thought we pushed the envelope with a "Romance, sex and Treo Smartphone" podcast? Palm and AT&T are announcing a pick-up line contest.
(We aren't making this up.)
Submit the worst, funniest or best pick-up line you’ve heard (or delivered) at palmpickup.com April 5 - May 17 and be entered in a daily drawing to win a free Palm Centro smartphone. Vote and post comments, or entice your friends to do so and if your line rakes in enough appeal, you’ll also have a chance to win a Royal Caribbean cruise.
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March 31, 2008 10:45 PM
Palm Sells One-millionth Centro
Centro Now Attracting New Smartphone Customers in 10 Countries Worldwide
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM - News) today announced that it has sold its one-millionth Palm® Centro™ smartphone, demonstrating the $99 product’s mass appeal to customers ready to get all the power of a smartphone at the price of a traditional mobile phone. Palm is now shipping Centro in 10 countries worldwide, including Hong Kong, Singapore, India, the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, France and Italy, and its already-rapid momentum is set to grow as Palm debuts the product in additional countries around the globe.
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March 29, 2008 09:00 PM
Is Palm's upcoming Sprint GPS & WiFi Treo 800w a winner?
According to the a number of community sites, a road show slide indicating Sprint will release a GPS & WiFi enabled Palm Treo 800w in July with a front facing qwerty keyboard was leaked. So we called Palm Friday. They would neither confirm nor deny the rumor. But we left the call with the distinct impression the company is returning to a more normal high end release schedule shortly.
We believe the rumored Treo 800w for Sprint may be an important product for Palm at a time the company's revenues have been declining. Palm's core customer base, well over a million "early adopters," have been pining for an upgrade, especially as competing manufacturers have advanced their product lines.
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March 25, 2008 09:47 PM
Free smartphone e-greetings using Clip In Touch.
Clip In Touch is a service being rolled out by carriers (and other content providers) that allows users to send greetings to multi-media enabled mobile phones for free. Simply design a greeting using your desktop or Treo / Centro browser and the Clip In Touch site, and send it to anyone or everyone you know via e-mail or MMS. Clip In Touch offers a database of professional images, videos and music that can be combined to create greetings, or you can upload your own multimedia files (such as photographs, songs or your own recordings).
We caught up with the company last month and received an in-person demonstration. They showed us how to create a greeting and what a resulting MMS looks like on a mobile phone. The service is a lot of fun for sending joke messages to friends or for sending well wishes to loved ones on holidays.
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March 13, 2008 06:20 AM
Will Palm implement haptic response to on-screen key presses? Immersion Corporation interviewed.
One of the most important choices smartphone manufacturers make in designing a device is screen versus keyboard size. Larger screens tend to correspond with smaller front facing keyboards or slide out ones. Few smartphones have both large screens and large front facing keyboards because the combination of both makes for an unappealingly large product.
Last year Apple popularized the concept of virtual on-screen keyboards with the iPhone. More screen real estate is possible with this approach. But Apple's on-screen keyboard has a major drawback. It lacks "haptic response." You cannot feel the keys the way you can on a physical keyboard. There is no pressure back on the finger when a virtual key is released.
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February 22, 2008 02:57 AM
Forward hotel & airline confirmation emails to plans@TripIt.com
With today's myriad of travel sites, even the most experienced traveler has their hands full managing all the details of a typical trip. Booking airline tickets, hotels, rental cars and restaurants leaves you with lots of separate pieces of paper. Throw in maps, directions, things to do, and weather and the chaos multiplies.
TripIt turns chaos into order by making it easy for anyone to:
- Organize trip details into one master online itinerary -- even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites
- Automatically include maps, directions and weather in their master itinerary
- Have the option to book restaurants, theatre tickets, activities and more right from within the online itinerary
- Safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights, or print an itinerary
Just forward your travel confirmation emails to plans@TripIt.com and TripIt automatically builds a master online itinerary for you.
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