Like any phone, the Palm Pre will come prepackaged with a set of default ringtones. But the Palm Pre is not “any phone” so this time around you’re incredibly curious of what your Pre might sound like the first time it rings: Palm Pre Ringtone This ringtone, titled “Pre”, was created along with 7 others [...]

The WebOS App Catalog will be Palm’s version of the iPhone App Store, Android Market and BlackBerry App World. The Pre will be successful with or without apps at launch – there are only a doze or so slated initially – but half the fun is watching the apps roll out in the early going. [...]

At the AllThingsD Conference – D7 – Roger McNamee and Jon Rubinstein were introduced with a pretty funny video where Roger is speaking lines for a Palm Pre commercial with Rubinstein getting incredibly angry with his approach: I thought the last line, “The Pre eats the iPhone for Breakfast” was poorly place because Rubinstein’s response [...]

I didn’t say it… and I don’t think it will. But TechCrunch/CrunchGear have written an article, referencing the BGR Palm Pre-view, claiming that the hype is way too high and the actual device will be run-of-the-mill, mediocre and everyone will forget about it in no time. Apparently Eric Zeman from InformationWeek thinks the same thing. [...]

It isn’t often that ONE site gets the first official “Hands On” with such a highly anticipated phone. Usually there review units, embargos and all that jazz. But nonetheless, BGR has posted the First Palm Pre Hands On Review and I’ll summarize for your convenience: Size/Shape feel good Plasticky (yuck) QWERTY stinks – buttons squashed [...]

Today and tomorrow are Google IO and everyone and there mother thought that Android would be a HUGE focal point of the event – and it will. But at today’s opening keynote the clear focus was/is “the web” – so it was incredibly surprising and also exciting to see an appearance from Michael Abbott, Senior [...]

It is just about as close to the real thing as you can get so for now, it will have to do. And it does quite well. The guys from PalmPreForum.org have posted a ton of videos showcasing various Palm Pre features by way of the emulator, typically a developer tool. I’ve included a few [...]

There has been so much excitement and noise surrounding the launch of the Palm Pre that nobody has really attempted hone in, focus and boil it down to one fact/feature/issue that the Pre needs to get overwhelmingly right. Part of that is because the phone’s strengths are based on synergy where the combination of the [...]

In a development similar to Sky Net of Terminator fame, WebOS is already beginning to take over household appliances and is using them to communicate subliminal messages. For example, AmyMBarrera tweets: I think my oven is sending me subliminal messages! [Via @Palm_Inc]

Sprint has the Palm Pre in the USA. Bell has the Palm Pre in Canada. Nothing else is etched in stone but according to the Guardian, O2 will have the Palm Pre in the UK. That means later this year, O2 customers could quite possibly have the choice between the iPhone and the Palm Pre. [...]