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Palm Goes All In With The Pre

by Jason Wilk on January 8, 2009

Introducing the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen Blackberry killer (because we know it won’t touch the iPhone), has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display.
As we have said before, it has a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out from underneath the phone. Contains an accelerometer for landscape viewing. The phone is running Palm’s all new Nova platform, and also includes Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3 megapixel camera, all with laptop style power.
No one has gotten a hands on demo yet, so stay tuned for the important stuff like mail, screen responsiveness, app store, etc. There’s already one downside to the phone, it is exclusively with Sprint for the first half of 2009 with no price tag yet. Just lost one potential customer. Thanks to Engadget for the photo.
Is there something oddly familiar about that dial screen and the bottom Nav bar?

by Jason Wilk on December 24, 2008

February 18th, 2009 comes the highly anticipated follow up to the first Blackberry Curve. The Curve 8900 will lanch with T-mobile.
Key features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, microSD slot good for up to 16GB, GPS, Wifi, WAP 2.0 browser and stereo Bluetooth.
Lets just hope this gets better reviews than the Storm.

by John Jorgensen on November 26, 2008

HTC plans to launch the Touch HD in Taiwan in December.
Suggested retail price: $776 USD.
Its touch screen is 3.8 inches, compared with iPhone’s 3.5 inches.
Uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1, just like the Touch Diamond.
5MP camera, 3G, GPS, WiFi, GSM/GPRS/EDGE.
Cliff Lai, CEO of Taiwan Mobile, urges his country to buy the phone instead of sending money to the US with an iPhone purchase.
The Touch HD sounds alright but for $800 I could do a lot of things like, for instance, not buy the Touch HD.

by John Jorgensen on November 8, 2008

Mark Zuckerberg stated his version of Moore’s law at this week’s Web 2.0 summit: “The amount of information we disclose about ourselves will, like the number of transistors on a slice of silicon, double every year.”
Really? I’m already getting Twitter updates every time someone takes a shit.
Mark’s law sounds good on paper but I doubt this prediction will come true. We’ll hit an information plateau as a society as soon as location-based messaging apps become ubiquitous. Then, not only will I know when one of my friends takes a s—, but thanks to the wonders of GPS and WiF I’ll also know their precise physical location while they are taking a s—. Thanks technology!
Nicholas Carr got this one right. See his post below.

by Jason Wilk on November 7, 2008

Friend View is Nokia’s experimental mobile location and micro-blogging service that also works via standard web.
The application uses the built-in GPS, network triangulation, or manual updates to decide where you are.
Once logged-in, it pinpoints you as well as all your friends who are on the service.
Instead of Twitter’s ‘What Are You Doing’ question, Nokia asks ‘What’s Up’.
I’m guessing this will roll out in Japan first as a test.
With Nokia as the smart phone leader, and also having the power to move this app onto every deck they manufacture, will this become an immediate threat to mobile social networks like Loopt and ever-growing Twitter?