Tag: palm

Palm – My thoughts on the mini-smartphone

This diddy smartphone is on Vodafone and you can get one here for £31 per month. In the USA this has been sold as a “companion phone” which I can sort of understand. See, I’m a little confused. It’s like Brexit in a way. There’s really no middle …

Palm – A hands on overview

Getting hold of one of these, right now, today, in the UK… is… tricky. But we have one, and it’s in my car, so you know what that means. CAR VIDEO! The Palm Smartphone is available right here on Vodafone. As we mentioned just this morning it’s available …

Get the Palm today

We told you about the upcoming Palm companion which appeared on the “Coming Soon” bit of Vodafone recently. It’s credit card sized and is great for slotting onto your bike, taking on trips, going to the gym or on nights out. Now available, you can get this one …

Kasamba Psychic Readings – Review

Want to know your future? Got some questions that you need answering? Well, if you’ve been to Blackpool or another one of our seaside resorts you might’ve seen a brightly coloured tent with various promises of answers to your questions – whatever those questions may be. I’ve never …

Open WebOS will not support any existing devices

The Open webOS project have announced on their blog that their upcoming open source version of webOS will not be compatible with existing devices. This has come as a shock to the small but dedicated community who have supported webOS through difficult times and were looking forward to continued …

Platform Wars

Platform wars, is Apples way the only way? With the enormous growth of the smartphone, and the never ending war between platform makers to be the dominant force, are we looking at a future dominated by the curated, closed platforms, and will Android have to become more regulated …

Palm announce the Pre and new webOS

Palm today announced their new phone and their new direction today. It's this, the "Pre". It's got a curvy slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3 megapixel camera with flash, EVDO Rev A (this isn't for Europe then), WiFi, GPS, gesture area (allowing simple fing...

Palm Treo Pro now for o2 customers too

The Palm Treo Pro has just popped up on the o2 website. It's been available for a while already to Vodafone customers but now o2 Business customers can also pick one up for absolutely nothing on selected tariffs. Powered by a 400Mhz Qualcomm CPU and ...

Palm Treo Pro now available on Vodafone

The Palm Treo Pro has just popped up on the Vodafone Business site. Prices range from nothing to £340.43 depending on contract. Running on a Qualcomm 400Mhz processor with 3G / HSDPA and WiFI it also packs GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, a 2 megaixel ca...

Palm Treo Pro goes official

Following more leaks than ever, the Palm Treo Pro is now official. A Qualcomm MSM7201 400Mhz CPU powers Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro whilst inside there's tri-band UMTS / HSDPA and quad-band GSM and 802.11b/g WiFi connectivity. There's also a 320x320 TFT sc...

Treo Pro leaked by Palm – Update – Real pictures found!

This, if rumours are right, is a new Palm handset which accidentally got leaked here. It's the Palm Treo Pro and it quickly got removed from the treo website, but not before the guys at treocentral.com managed to snap some screenshots. Things we kno...

Palm Treo 800w goes live on Sprint USA

The guys over at engadget have managed to get themselves a shiny new Palm Treo 800w. The device runs Windows Mobile 6.1 on a Qualcomm MSM6800A CPU with WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD card slot and 256Mb user memory plus 128Mb program memory. Sprin...

Palm Treo 850 specs get leaked

Following the spy shots there's now specs available for the upcoming Palm Treo 850. It's still early days yet, but aGPS and WiFi seem to be available, as does Bluetooth 2.0 EDR _ A2DP, 256Mb Flash, a 2 megapixel camera and a microSD slot. Powered by W...

Palm Treo 500 Review

It's been a bit quiet here at Coolsmartphone.com for the last couple of days. Usually that means that something big is about to happen, and in this particular case it's rather huge indeed. Check back over the weekend to find out what it is ;) In the m...

Palm 500 now available on o2 UK

The Palm Treo 500 is now available on o2. Previously available on Vodafone, o2 are selling the handset for a grand total of £0.00 in both their Personal and Business sections. The handset packs 3G connectivity, 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion, ...

Palm do some BlackBerry bashing

It looks like Palm are taking full advantage of yet another outage on the BlackBerry system in the USA yesterday. RIM blamed the outage on "a system upgrade which went wrong" and is the second major failure in less than a year. Palm have taken out ful...

Palm Treo 500v Video Review

Steve Litchfield has been pumping out his Smartphones Show for quite some time, with show 52 now being available. It features a look at the Palm Treo 500v on Vodafone, a phone we've not yet played with. Check out the latest show or subscribe to the v...

Palm Drucker – Treo 750v successor

A rather mysterious Palm handset called the "Palm Drucker" has fell out of the Vodafone line-up for 2008. This one is all set to replace the Palm Treo 750v that we reviewed. The new handset gets a square 320x320 screen, quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G +...

Palm Wanda appears – Treo 500v replacement

Here's the replacement to the existing Palm Treo 500v, currently being sold on Vodafone. TheBoyGenius has the details on this new Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device with QVGA display, 3G + HSDPA and a 2 megapixel. Oh, and how about a spot of GPS action...

Palm Treo 500v to hit Vodafone this Friday

Our man Johnny De'Silva has spotted the Palm Treo 500v sitting proudly on the Vodafone Business site in a rather dashing charcoal colour. Launching on Friday (yes, this Friday), the Palm Treo 500v will cost between asbolutely nothing and £85.11, dep...

Treo 500v Goes Official

Well, just as we expected way back in June, the Palm 500v is now official and yes, it is coming to Vodafone. Palm UK have just put a full page online detailing the specs, which inclide pretty much everything... except.. WiFi (doah). The 500v does, how...

The new Palm handset – revealed!

Doah, don't you hate it when someone says, "See? We told you so?" Well, yes, we kinda suspected that the new Palm Smartphone would be Windows Mobile powered and here it is. This, we can assume, is the mysterious "third device" coming to Vodafone's Chr...

Possible Windows Mobile Palm approaching?

OK, standby for some interesting information. Palm have put this website online to prepare people for a "new Palm smartphone" coming 12th September. The images on the site seem to suggest a European version of the Palm Centro (Treo 800p), which runs a...

Possible new Windows Mobile Smartphone from Palm?

I don't know a better way to start the week than a blurry shot of a future handset, do you? It's rumoured to be a Vodafone-branded Palm device running Windows Mobile Standard (y'know, Smartphone), which would obviously indicate a non touch-screen devi...

Palm to launch a new WM6 device soon?

Palm could be bringing more Windows Mobile handsets to the market following rumours that a device like the Asus P525 will show up on a UK network. We're getting the feeling that a splash of red paint will be added to the device, pointing at a possible...

Windows Mobile 6 coming to Treo 750v

If you've read our review or bought a Treo 750v then you'll be glad to hear that Palm intend to roll out Windows Mobile 6 to these devices. How exactly this will happen with all the networks and network tweaks isn't clear, however Palm are promising i...

Palm 750v announced on Cingular

You may remember our Palm Treo 750v review. It's safe to say that we were more than a little impressed with this exceptional phone and it showed. Until recently it's been exclusive to Vodafone in the UK and Europe, however Cingular now plan to release...

Vodafone Palm Treo 750v Review Online

Many websites write what they call "reviews". Most of the time it's a three paragraph item with an image from the PR company. Let's face it, that's not a review, that's just plain rubbish. We however do things differently. When we do a review it's a p...

Treo 750v – Yes, even more pictures

I was lucky enough to grab hold of the Palm Treo 750v for a short while this afternoon. It's a heck of a lot smaller than I imagined and if I'm honest I would've loved to have had longer with it. Although I didn't get chance to meddle …

Palm Treo 750v – First Impressions

Yesterday we mentioned the launch of the Palm Treo 750v on Vodafone. Paul Ockenden managed to get his grubby mitts on one of these and has taken some snaps for us. Whilst we may be dwelling on the lack of 3G video calling and WiFi Paul states.. "Palm …

Vodafone Announce Palm Treo 750v

As expected Vodafone Uk have announced the Palm Treo 750v - a device we first mentioned almost 2 months ago. The 3G device will run Windows Mobile 5.0 (Pocket PC) and has 128Mb memory with 60Mb flash, Bluetooth and all the regular Pocket PC software y...

Pre-order the Palm Treo 750v on Vodafone UK

The Palm Treo 750v, due to be announced by Voda next week, is now available to pre-order on Vodafone UK. With prices ranging from absolutely bob-all to £127.66 this Windows Mobile 5.0 QWERTY device is 3G compatible and has a 1.3 Megapixel camera. It'...

More Treo 750v eye-candy

The Treo 750v we told you about back in July should be coming to Vodafone very soon indeed. MyPDACafe now have some pictures of gargantuan proportions. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the device next to it is called the Dopod 595 - the branded vers...

Treo 750v to launch September 12th

That Windows-powered Palm Treo we told you about last month (a day before The Register) should be getting it's full announcement on Vodafone UK on September 12th. You can still register your interest in this device before it goes live. The Palm, repor...

Treo 700wx confirmed – Launch August 31st

Any day now customers in the USA should be able to grab a Treo 700wx on Sprint. It's ready to roll, all boxed up and in stock, however shops have to get the go-ahead to start selling. Apparently this should be next Thursday (August 31st) and there's p...

Palm Treo 750v Pictures and Cingular launch to come?

Ahh look! More pictures of the Palm Treo 750v. You may recall our earlier story featuring a launch on Vodafone UK. Well, it looks like Engadget Mobile have blown the lid on a Cingular launch in the USA too. These blurry shots show the 750v running Win...

Vodafone Palm Treo 750v pictured

msmobiles have a blurry shot of that Palm Treo 750v we told you about last week. As you can see it's the same as our previous image but with the usual Vodafone red homescreen and a white Vodafone sticker. If you like the look of this and you're …