Mobile

The Best Smartphone On Every Platform

The most important thing about your next phone isn’t what carrier it’s on, how big the screen is, or even who makes it. It’s the platform, stupid. So here are the best phones on every platform.


March 30, 2010
Mobile

Palm Pre Plus And Pixi Plus Headed To Europe Soon?

Europeans won’t have to wait as long for the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus as they did the original models, according to the documents passed through the Global Certification Forum allowing them entry through Heathrow, Charles De Gaulle and Schiphol.


February 5, 2010
Mobile

Verizon Emasculates The Palm Pre Plus In New Ads

Did you know the Palm Pre Plus is a phone for ladies? Specifically, for mums? Well, it is, you sissy! If you were a real man, you’d buy a Droid! That’s a phone for men!


February 2, 2010

Palm Pre Plus GPS Might Be A Little Janky

Reports are surfacing that GPS navigation on the Palm Pre Plus is a little janky, with full A-GPS only working with the (recently updated to 5.0) Verizon Navigator app, not Google Maps – locks are inaccurate and slow.


January 26, 2010
Gaming

Palm Pre Gets Its First Decent, Official Game: Assassin’s Creed

Whoa, whoever said Palm didn’t have any decent games will definitely be eating their hat for dinner tonight. Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles has just hit the Palm Pre app store, last seen on the DS, iPhone and Symbian phones.


January 22, 2010
Software

The Palm Pre Plus Can Run 50 (50!) Apps At Once

As mentioned in our review, the added RAM in the Palm Pre Plus means you can run “a LOT” of apps. You know, like 10! Absurdist logic site PreCentral asks the obvious question: why not 50?


January 21, 2010
Mobile

Palm Pre Plus Review

Sprint customers: If you’re worried that you bought a first gen Palm Pre only to watch helplessly as Palm released a better Pre on Verizon, stop. The Palm Pre Plus is essentially the same phone as the Palm Pre.


January 8, 2010
Mobile

Palm Pre Plus Hands-On: Super-Fast, Button Removal No Problem

Jon Rubinstein dropped the news only minutes ago that the new Palm devices – the slightly-upgraded Pre Plus and Pixi Plus – would be arriving exclusively on Verizon later this month.


Mobile

Mobile HotSpot Makes Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi Plus Like A Mi-Fi

The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus can hook up five Wi-Fi devices to the net, over 3G, after using the Mobile HotSpot app. That means you can use the two phones as a Mi-Fi hotspot.