Archive for July, 2009

Palm Pre Return Rate Is 40%, Defects To Blame

by PalmWebOS.org on July 22nd, 2009

A report from Barron’s cites Keven Dede, an analyst from Jesup & Lamont, who says the Palm Pre return rates are likely around 40%. That’s right – close to half of all Palm Pre phones are returned to the stores and either a new Pre is shelled out or another phone is chosen in its [...]

Sprint seeing 40% Pre return rate?

by Shawn Brown on July 20th, 2009

Out the door Palm has been doing pretty well as far as earnings with their new Palm Pre but recently sales have slowed and we are finally getting to see just how the Pre will pan out. Too bad the news we are getting isn’t really the best of news. Reports coming in from all [...]

Twee gives Pre users a third twitter app option

by Shawn Brown on July 20th, 2009

If you are a Twitter user who dumped your iPhone for the Palm Pre such as I did you are probably pretty upset with the lack of available Twitter apps currently in the App Catalog. They have been getting better but still not quite there. The newest beta app available for the Pre is called [...]

Palm hinting at future development with job posing?

by Shawn Brown on July 20th, 2009

A lot of information on what companies are doing can be found in current job listings. There have been countless plans uncovered by previous posts but now its Palm’s turn to reveal a bit about what they are doing. On May 8th a position was posted for a VPN Network Engineer on Palm’s career page. [...]

Rough Cut RSS app found in SDK folders

by Shawn Brown on July 20th, 2009

It appears that Palm has given us a new application in a very indirect way through a code sample that is located in the Rough Cuts webOS programming guide. This simple RSS app is said to be a very rough cut indeed as many are having trouble even getting it working properly. If you’d like [...]

Palm Pre ads hitting target audiences dead on

by Shawn Brown on July 20th, 2009

The demand for the Palm Pre is slowing and waiting lists are quickly disappearing. Since the release we have seen a number of TV spots as Sprint tries to rake in as many customers as they can while they have the device exclusively. comScore has released a report that states the Palm Pre ad campaign [...]

Pre tattoo for a free Palm Pre?

by Shawn Brown on July 20th, 2009

We all know that tech heads sometimes go a little overboard for the love of their favorite devices. I’m sure you all remember Zune and Blackberry Storm guy. Well the latest to key inked done of a mobile device is Pre man. This guy went out and got a “painful” and permanent Palm Pre tattoo [...]

Bell Employees Getting Palm Pre Training!

by PalmWebOS.org on July 20th, 2009

It appears as though the Canadian launch of the Palm Pre is just around the corner. Bell employees in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Moncton will have training on the Palm Pre between now and July 29th which would seem to suggest an early August Palm Pre launch on the carrier! Are you excited Canadians? [...]

Third odd Pre commercial about reincarnation

by Shawn Brown on July 20th, 2009

They have done it again and pushed a third Palm Pre commercial featuring Tamara Hope. With all the negative feedback Sprint and Palm have been getting you would think they would immediately stop with this. This third one may be a bit controversial as it features the subject of reincarnation. Of course the Pre gets [...]

Getting Serious About WebOS Gaming

by PalmWebOS.org on July 20th, 2009

The Palm Pre and WebOS supposed suckiness when it comes to gaming has been well documented and the company wants to fix that flaw – a job posting on Mary-Margaret network shows Palm is actively recruting a Game Frameworks Engineer, Palm-MMN. Check out the description: Mary-Margaret Network has partnered exclusively with Palm Inc. to find [...]