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Today on The Mobiler

By Tim Hanlon

04:52 June 3, 2009 PDT

There's plenty going on over at our mobile technology blog The Mobiler today. We've covered Amazon selling the original Peek e-mail device for $19.99, Fujitsu's M2010 netbook, Apple extending the MacBook Pro video warranty to three years, the Palm Pre's unofficial iTunes support, ARM-based smartbooks, T-Mobile launching a new Android phone this summer, Wordpress for the iPhone, Vodafone Australia announcing a price and release date for the HTC Magic, and plenty more. Read More

Sprint confirms price and release date for the Palm Pre

By Tim Hanlon

05:08 May 19, 2009 PDT

After months of speculation from the blogosphere, Sprint has confirmed the June 6 release of the Palm Pre handset we got all hot and bothered about back in February. Read More

Mobile telephone news from The Mobiler

By Tim Hanlon

05:59 April 15, 2009 PDT

Over at The Mobiler today we looked at push notifications on the iPhone being great for users (but not so great for small developers), more speculation about the release date of the Palm Pre, a preview build of the Android 1.5 "Cupcake" SDK, the release of the Nine Inch Nails iPhone app, the Samsung Propel Pro now available on AT&TSamsung Propel Pro arriving at AT&T, and the companies rumored to be supplying components of the next-generation iPhone. Read More

Palm Pre: the next big thing in 3G smartphones?

By Tim Hanlon

20:15 February 15, 2009 PST

Announced at CES 2009, Palm's Pre is a 3G smartphone set to take on the iPhone and the G1. Read on to find out why we think it's got a fighting chance of becoming the next "must have" handset. Read More

Palm announce Foleo mobile companion

By Noel McKeegan

May 31, 2007 The diminishing size of smartphones and PDA's is great for portability but can have the inverse effect in regard to productivity, especially when used for web browsing and email. In response to this problem, Palm has released the Foleo, an add-on device labeled as a "mobile companion" that aims to fill the gap between the phone interface and the laptop PC by providing smartphone users with immediate access to a larger screen and full size keyboard. Read More

Palm celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of the Pilot

By Mike Hanlon

March 28, 2006 It may seem that the Palm Pilot has been with us forever but it’s actually just a decade since the 5.7-ounce combination of calendar, contacts, to-do lists and notes hit the market and captured the imagination of road warriors and early adopters everywhere. In that time, the company has shipped more than 34 million mobile-computing products. Having witnessed the failure of the Apple Newton, Palm co-founderJeff Hawkins also recognised the enormous and devoted following Apple’s original mobile computing platform had developed and it went from there. There’s a great audio interview Palm President and CEO Ed Colligan, co-founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, and others discussing the beginnings of the company and the Pilot at Palm's 10-year anniversary here and a PDF time-line for Palm enthusiasts! Read More

Palm and Microsoft Join to Bring the Palm Experience to Windows Mobile

By Mike Hanlon

September 27, 2005 Palm and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance to accelerate the smartphone market segment with a new device for mobile professionals and businesses. Palm has licensed the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system for an expanded line of Treo smartphones. The collaboration gives customers more choices by offering the Treo on the software platform favoured by many businesses. Treo smartphones combine the hallmark Palm experience of a full-featured mobile phone with email, messaging, web access and organisational software. The new Treo smartphone takes advantage of the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform in multiple ways, offering Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile and Internet Explorer Mobile built into the smartphone, as well as direct access to Exchange Server 2003 for mobile access to information.In addition, the new Treo will operate with Verizon Wireless' BroadbandAccess service, the largest high-speed wireless broadband network in the United States. Verizon Wireless expects the new Treo smartphone to be available to its customers in early 2006. Read More

Palm and Audi collaborate on automotive communications tools

By Mike Hanlon

August 23, 2005 Palm and Audi have announced their collaboration in a new generation of communications solutions designed to improve safety and convenience for drivers: easy and totally integrated hands-free calling inside the car. Using built-in Bluetooth short-range wireless technology and the Palm Treo 650 smartphone, drivers of 2006 Audi A6 and A8 vehicles can make and receive calls totally hands-free using the car's MMI (Multi Media Interface) console, voice-recognition interface or steering-wheel controls. Read More

PalmOne TREO 600 - best of breed (for now)

By Mike Hanlon

The Palm 600 is without doubt the best convergent device on the market at this time - bar NONE! It combines a phone, a Palm OS 5-based organiser with messaging, email and web browsing features and it does so in a package which feels like a real phone, not a brick. Read More

Tungsten T3 Stretch Screen expands viewing options

By Mike Hanlon

Monday October 13, 2003: Palm has significantly expanded viewing options for the latest Tungsten T3 handheld by incorporating a "Stretch Display" that delivers 50% more screen area than other Palm devices and adds the extremely useful option of rotating the display from portrait to landscape to best suit the type of document you are viewing. Read More

Tungsten C - Palm's most powerful handheld yet gets built-in Wi-Fi

By Mike Hanlon

Tuesday July 22, 2003: Packing a 400MHz Intel ARM processor and 64MB of memory and built-in wireless "Wi-Fi" capabilities, the Tungsten C is far and away Palm's most powerful handheld ever. Read More

Turn your Palm Pilot into a digital audio player

By Mike Hanlon

Palm Tungsten T handheld users will soon be able to support digital audio using RealOne Player Mobile... Read More

Palm Zire Handheld arrives

By Mike Hanlon

Palm has announced the Australian release of its new mass-market handheld, the Zire. Designed for the first-time purchaser, the focus is on providing basic functionality - date Book, address Book, note Pad and to do's - on a Palm platform for less than $250... Read More