palm pre
| 3:00PM 6/16/2009
Research in Motion Limited (RIMM) has crossed categories with its latest BlackBerry offering, the Tour. This new model is described as falling between the BlackBerry Curve and the BlackBerry Bold. The Bold targeted the high-end corporate BlackBerry user, while the Curve was aimed at the everyday...
| 6:30PM 6/10/2009
As buzz built about Apple's new iPhone 3G S and the cheaper iPhone 3G, and with the Palm Pre going on sale this past week, it occurred to me that as iPhone rivals mount, consumers win.
You want Windows with your phone? You'll get it. You want the Palm (PALM) or Google (GOOG) operating system? Here...
| 5:30PM 6/09/2009
With all the hype generated from Monday's introduction of new Apple iPhones, one item possibly overlooked is that Apple will be selling an iPhone for less than $100.
"There's nothing even close to an 8GB iPhone that's close to $99," said Ryan Jacob, who manages the Jacob Internet Fund, which owns...
| 5:45PM 6/08/2009
Two days after the Palm Pre went on sale to take on the Apple iPhone 3G, Apple introduced a new phone and cut the price of its current phone.
The new iPhone is called 3G S, Apple said today. Apple (AAPL) dropped the price of the current 3G 8-gigabyte phone to $99 from $199 with an AT&T service...
| 6:30PM 6/05/2009
There's a new kid in town, iPhone. It's the Palm Pre and it wants to fight.
There are many reviews of the Palm (PALM) Pre cell phone, which is being sold at Sprint (S) and Best Buy (BBY) as of June 6. Since I don't have a Pre to review, here's the bottom line from the reviews I've read: The Pre is...
| 1:00PM 4/30/2009
Motorola reported a first-quarter loss as mobile phone sales fell by 45 percent.
The biggest mobile-phone maker in the U.S. said revenue fell 28 percent to $5.37 billion, which missed consensus analyst estimates, as the company posted a loss of $231 million, or 31 cents a share.
Mobile device sales...
| 3:45PM 3/17/2009
Apple Inc.'s (APPL) public relations staff deserves a medal for whipping the tech press into a frothy lather about today's "major update" to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Major media outlets ran largely laudatory stories about the upgrade while investors could care less.
Shares of the maker of the...