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BillShrink has summarized the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the most popular Smartphones currently on the market. I hope you know what you are getting yourself into when you sign a 2-year contract. But it’s totally worth it!

In console gaming, there was a rule of thumb that says whichever gaming console sells over the 10 million units mark first, that gaming console will eventually win out. In the smartphone market, we think whoever can get car manufacturers to integrate custom accessories to work with their smartphones will win the war. Car manufacturers [...]

Word on the street is that Sprint, the exclusive launch partner of the Palm Pre, will be freezing all employee vacation for the whole month of May. That can only mean one thing – Palm Pre’s launch date is set for May. So it looks like Palm is keep on beating Apple to launch its [...]

webOS is the name of Palm’s new operating system that’s running on the Palm Pre. Although neither device nor the SDK is out yet, Palm is starting to prime the pump with its developer’s network blog and slow trickling of information. Last week, O’Reilly hosted a webcast that featured Palm’s Software CTO Mitch Allen that [...]

Today, Sprint posted technical specifications about the Palm Pre on their website, signaling that the Palm Pre is imminent. It looks like Palm will make good on its promise after all to release the device before June this year. It also looks like from Sprint’s website that you will be able to use your Palm [...]

This is a follow-up article to yesterday’s post, “Apple Threatening Nuclear Arsenal to Palm”. So why is Apple acting so defensively? In short, because Palm Pre really has the potential to be an iPhone killer. Palm has taken what’s good about the iPhone and improved on it. It is really the first touchscreen mobile phone [...]

Here is a quick rundown of what happened last month between Apple and Palm : On Jan. 8, Palm unveiled Palm Pre at CES 2009. Palm Pre was raved by many early reviewers and was even called an “iPhone Kller. The Palm Pre was named “Best in Show” for CES later on in the week. [...]

Only a few days after Palm Pre was proclaimed as the iPhone killer, we hear today that the Taiwanese mobile phone company HTC will be launching a brand new large touch screen phone that a senior executive at Telstra is calling “better and more functional” than the Palm Pre. According to the executives from Telstra: [...]

The market reacted very positively to Palm Pre’s announcement yesterday, and investors continue you pour money into Palm’s stock today. Palm’s stock was up another 34% today, despite the wider market’s downward trend with NASDAQ dropping 2.81%. This is obviously very good news to Palm, but several things may cause the Palm Pre to be [...]

As expected, Palm announced its new Nova OS today at CES. They also announce the imminent availability of a new device, but only a pre-production of it was available at the show. The new device is called Palm Pre. Engadget had a chance to play with it and gave it extremely positive reviews. Engadget said [...]