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It’s Official! Palm Pre To Be Released June 6

May 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones, smartphones

It’s official! No more rumors or speculation as to when the Palm Pre will be released. Sprint will begin selling the Palm Pre on June 6th. It’s about time!
The details of such glorious event are as follows

When: June 6, 2009
Where: Sprint stores, Sprint.com, Best Buy, Radio Shack, some Wal-Mart stores
Cost: $199.99 with [...]

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The Rumor of Verizon Offering the iPhone

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones, smartphones

Today’s rumor mill is abuzz about Verizon possibly picking up Apple’s iPhone when AT&T’s exclusive deal runs next year. I must say I’m rather skeptical about this right now. I’m noticing most of the rumors credit the same source and all look the same. It just takes one rumor…
So let’s think about this. The iPhone [...]

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AT&T Must Be Afraid of the Palm Pre

April 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Business, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless, smartphones

Ha! You’ve gotta love it. I just read this article on Engadget. Based on this leak of an AT&T internal document I’d say AT&T execs are fearing the release of the Palm Pre. They put out this little memo to their peeps pretty much saying the iPhone is vastly superior to the Pre. That’s fine…I [...]

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Palm Pre To Be Launched By May 17?

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones, smartphones

The rumor mill concerning the Palm Pre is going nuts right now. A few days ago there were two differing rumor opinions as to which “early” date the Pre would be launched. The first was Tax Day (April 15) and the other was May 17. As Tax Day rapidly approaches this seems a bit far-fetched. [...]

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What’s Not To Love About Sprint?

April 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Hardware, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones, smartphones

Recently a friend posted a link to a video of one of the new Sprint commercials to our little newsgroup. This of course put me on a quick little rant of all things groovy about Sprint. This then led to someone commenting “…you went there. We won’t be able to get him to shut up [...]

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Barnes & Noble and Sprint to Develop eBook Offering

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless

You know I couldn’t let an interesting story (just a rumor for now) concerning Sprint pass me by. Rumor has it that Barnes & Noble is working with Sprint Nextel and an unnamed device maker to offer eBook services similar to the Amazon Kindle. Hm…interesting. Barnes & Noble tried this a few years back working [...]

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Eager for the Palm Pre

February 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Gadgets, Technology, mobile phones, smartphones

It’s been a while since the Palm Pre was announced at CES and I’m still buggin’ for it. I tire of looking around and seeing everyone with their fancy little iPhones and I’m using a phone that you’d see Sonny Crockett talking on back in the ’80s. I try not to read too much about [...]

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Palm Announces the Palm Pre

January 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Business, Gadgets, Technology, mobile phones

Palm unveiled the Palm Pre at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) yesterday and wow…I must say I’m impressed. After watching them release weak update after weak update, I wasn’t sure what to expect out of their next phone. I’m more than pleased with what I see so far and am willing to stick with Sprint [...]

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Walmart and Sam’s Club to Sell Apple’s iPhone

December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Technology, market share, mobile phones

So it’s official, Walmart and Sam’s Club will be selling the Apple iPhone. Yes, I know I’m a little late to the game but maybe some of you haven’t heard the news yet. So here I am…keeping my readers informed.
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Apple’s iPhone Now Ranks 2nd in Business Smartphones

November 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless, market share, mobile phones

And there you have it…Apple’s iPhone has just overtaken Palm for the number two spot in business for smartphone penetration. We already knew the iPhone was taking the consumer market by storm, but this jump to number two in the enterprise is big news for the people up there in Cupertino.
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