Rebel Simcard II updated to work with Pre

by Shawn Brown on November 9th, 2009

If you couldn’t wait to get a GSM version of the Palm Pre and picked up yourself a locked handset have no fear. The Rebel Simcard II had just been updated to be compatible with the Palm Pre. If you picked up your Pre from O2 in Germany you have nothing to worry about to [...]

Bell Canada offering the Pre for just $99

by Shawn Brown on November 6th, 2009

Bell Canada is in a bit of trouble with the Palm Pre and how well it is selling. With all the changes going on over there they need to move the Pre at all costs even if that means discounting it which is why you can now go pick one up for the new low [...]

Daylight savings time causing webOS bug to act up

by Shawn Brown on November 2nd, 2009

The Pre has been experiencing a few issues since late last night with time and the switch to daylights savings times. Here in Arizona messages have been coming in with a timestamp of an hour earlier than the time sent even though the phone shows the correct time. Others briefly had calendar issues such as [...]

Official fix for GSM APN entry problem on the way

by Shawn Brown on October 31st, 2009

For those of you who waited for the GSM Palm Pre to release so that you could have it in all of its unlocked goodness you may have run into a roadblock along the way with the APN. Turns out that the Pre was never programmed for the entry of an APN but the customer. [...]

iTunes 9.0.2 breaks Pre sync

by Shawn Brown on October 30th, 2009

Again Apple has broken any syncing capability the Palm Pre had when the new firmware was released. If you haven’t synced in a while and would like to do so without purchasing and 3rd party apps we suggest you do it before updating to iTunes 9.0.2. For some odd reason still unknown to us iTunes [...]

Google brings visual voicemail to the Palm Pre

by Shawn Brown on October 27th, 2009

Many of us who have picked up the Pre have come down with a mad case of the visual voicemail blues. Luckily for us Google and Sprint (not so much Sprint) have come up with a great work around for the time being but maybe for good. Think Google Voice voicemail for your Sprint phone [...]

Palm Pre makes PCWorld’s top 100 best products of 2009

by Shawn Brown on October 27th, 2009

With Christmas and the end of the year coming up quick PCWorld has released their top 10 most brilliant products of 2009. While the Pre did not make the list it is hot on the heels of those that did at number 14. To make the list consumer electronics were rated on design, functionality, how [...]

Palm Pre takes a hit and keeps on going

by Shawn Brown on October 27th, 2009

Why is everyone so mean to the Pre? Just the other day a guy tried (very unsuccessfully) to drown his Pre in a beer in order to get his boss to purchase him an iPhone. This week a guy named Zack decided to enact violence upon his Pre and tried to decapitate it Despite his [...]

Movistar adopts US Pre commercials

by Shawn Brown on October 27th, 2009

We all remember Palm’s Pre commercials here in the US and how it had such a negative response from the majority of us yet it somehow hit the target audience just right. Well Movistar in Spain has decided to adopt the same ad campaign with a cut and paste version of the commercials. The same [...]

Pre spotted in FlashForward and Lie to Me

by Shawn Brown on October 24th, 2009

The Palm Pre is getting a lot of face time on primetime television and I mean a lot. I don’t believe that I have seen any one phone so many times on so many shows at once in the past. The latest shows to have a Pre appearance include FlashForward and Lie to Me. Now [...]