Palm on Thursday at CES 2009 unveiled its effort to rejoin the battle for a stake of the mobile smartphone market with a completely new device running Palm's new webOS. The company seems to have learned a thing or two from Apple's iPhone. Click below for images of the Pre and tell us what you think: Is Palm back in the game?
Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash is (unofficially) here, with prospects of higher-speed, higher-resolution video and for the first time, 3D.
T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, launched Wednesday, will be followed by two more Android phones later this year, but neither of them will be HTC's Hero.
A new alliance will place the retailer's own brand alongide the manufacturers, and could also lead to future partnerships on services.
The 4G Wireless standard that Verizon hopes to show off before this year is out is still at a loss for (spoken) words.
Lockdown with Angela Gunn In the middle of a 15-page plea not to get regulated, a spark of smart thinking.
With a trio of Android phones now in the pipeline for 2009, T-Mobile hopes to break the iPhone's emerging stranglehold.
If Internet media services don't step up and build an attractive way for users to start paying for downloads, a commissioner says, government may do the job instead.
Though it's coming in behind LG, Samsung, and Microsoft, Sony will begin to offer Netflix streaming, too.
Carmi Levy: Wide Angle Zoom Don't start the revolution just yet, says Carmi, who isn't so certain Chrome OS will be the "Windows Killer."
But are the computers to blame for the contract-guard fiasco at FPS?
Also: South Korea takes another round of DDoS abuse, and Neelie Kroes and Steve Ballmer may shake hands before she exits stage left.
A ZDNet blogger did some serious digging for clues as to a reported price break on multiple Windows 7 Home Premium licenses, and may have found it.
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I've had a Storm for 2 months, just mailed it into Colorware. But if this Palm was on Verizon, I'd be in the Store tomorrow.
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This new smartphone is the BOMB! I'm a loyal Palm user who's been waiting a long time for a device like this. Unfortunately, the Sprint obligation is a dealbreaker for me. I have no interest in getting tied down to Sprint for two years. I would be very willing to go from AT&T to Verizion if that were an option, but not Sprint. Guess I'll have to be patient till later in the year...
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I'm on Verizon and I refuse to move off it. Sucks that the best network doesn't necessarily get the best phones.
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