Palm took something of a risk by advertising

By Andrew Williams, itpro.com
Palm took something of a risk by advertising the Pre's ability to sync with rival Apple's iTunes software. Sure enough, Apple kicked it off the platform within weeks, issuing an iTunes update that denied the Pre access. Now Palm has come back with a webOS update that gets Pre back on board. How long will this cat and mouse game last?
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Just over a week after Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Apple Store Discount on Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition . Click here. More about Apple cut off the Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) More about Palm Pre's ability to sync with iTunes, Palm has restored that capability with an update to its webOS operating system.
In announcing the update on the Palm blog, Palm vice president of business products John Traynor was somewhat circumspect, focusing first on the platform's enhanced support for the enterprise, then slipping in the news about restored iTunes synching.
Palm's announcement has triggered a mix of responses by readers of its blog.
Meanwhile, ChangeWave Research's figures show that the Pre is gaining some ground among consumers.
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Palm sells 300,000 iPhone killers in June

Palm sold more than 300,000 Palm Pre handsets in June, the company announced today.
This compares to one million new iPhones sold in the first weekend of sales and Samsung's claim of two million pre orders for its Jet phone.
The Palm Pre smartphone went on sale on 6 June. It is up against tough competition from the iPhone 3G S, which is expected to launch next week, the Samsung Jet and the Nokia N97.

Battle of the 3G Networks

by Sascha Segan, pcmag
If you're eyeing a Palm Pre or a new iPhone, you're not buying just a phone—you're buying a network. We can help you figure out if the switch is worthwhile.
June is a blockbuster month for smartphones. Incessant buzz has made the Palm Pre and Apple's next-gen iPhone red-hot, but there's one thing that may cool down these super smartphones: their networks.
In the U.S., the Pre is only on Sprint for now, and the iPhone is exclusive to AT&T for the foreseeable future. Trouble is, although both carriers have large nationwide 3G data networks, neither has placed well in two independent nationwide surveys ranking call quality, network quality, and customer service. In all three categories, both Sprint and AT&T are bested by the third national 3G data network: Verizon Wireless. (T-Mobile is still building out its 3G network, and Cricket and MetroPCS, though solid choices, aren't fully national carriers.)
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Palm Pre Smartphone Is a Live

by Ginny Mies, pcworld
The long-awaited Palm Pre lives up to the hype with a responsive touchscreen and an engaging interface, but a few hardware design flaws keep it from being the perfect smartphone.
The Palm Pre smartphone ($200 with a two-year contract from Sprint as of 6/4/09), along with the company's much-anticipated webOS operating system, has had quite the buzz building up since its splashy launch in January. While the Pre isn't perfect, it definitely does not disappoint: I found the WebOS interface clean, engaging, and intuitive. My main issues were with the hardware itself.
Social Networking Synergy
One of the most important components of webOS is its ability to synchronize, and synthesize, information from various sources into one seamless, integrated view. Palm calls this concept "Synergy," and it is incorporated into the contacts, e-mail, and messaging applications. For example, you can sync the Pre to your Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Exchange accounts; it will grab your contacts from those accounts, and all of them will appear in the Pre's Contacts app.
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History of Palm Inc.

by Matt Reichman, pcmag
From the first Palm Pilot onward, Palm, Inc. has been up, down, and sideways. Bouncing around between U.S. Robotics, 3Com, Handspring, and other offshoots before finally coalescing into Palm, Inc. as it stands today, the company's glory days seemed all but over last year—that is, until January's announcement at CES of the forthcoming Palm Pre.
The Pre smartphone and its accompanying webOS, to be launched June 6, have the mobile market in a frenzy, and the company's widely predicted death knell has been silenced, at least for now. Here's a look back at PC Magazine's coverage of the pivotal products that shaped Palm's evolution, beginning with the U.S. Robotics Pilot that started it all in 1996.
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How to Buy a Cell Phone

by Sascha Segan, pcmag
These days, smartphones get all the buzz, but the vast majority of handsets sold in the U.S. are actually feature phones: camera phones, music phones, rugged phones, messaging phones, or just plain voice phones.
Unlike smartphones, feature phones are a matter of "what you see is what you get." They don't receive magical software upgrades or run thousands of additional apps, as does the iPhone, for example. That doesn't mean they only make calls, though you can find phones that only make calls, if a basic phone is what you want. But most feature phones include some combination of a camera, a basic Web browser, e-mailing and text messaging apps, and music and video players.
Feature phones are typically less expensive than smartphones. They're available in a much wider range of shapes and sizes, and on a broader range of plans, including prepaid options. Monthly service fees for feature phones are generally cheaper too, which can make a multipurpose feature phone a good bet.
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World see Palm Pre

by Ina Fried, cnet
In one of the more anticipated chats at D: All Things Digital, Palm Executive Chairman Jon Rubinstein showed off the Palm Pre and talked about several features for the first time.
Rubinstein showed how the device can search Amazon's MP3 store and download songs directly to the device, a feature I hinted was coming back at the product's launch at CES.
He also showed a "media sync" feature that lets you grab non-protected media files directly from iTunes without any special software. In addition, the universal search feature will not only search Google and Wikipedia, but also Twitter.
Palm also demoed an App Catalog that the company says will launch with the product in beta form. About a dozen programs will be there at launch, Palm said. Among the applications shown on the device were Fandango and the New York Times.
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O2 to get Palm Pre exclusivity in UK?

By Maggie Holland, itpro
O2 has remained tight lipped on reports suggesting that it has nabbed an exclusive deal to sell Palm's new Pre handset.
The mobile network has previously been linked to the device based on Palm’s new webOs platform, but a Guardian report published this weekend added further weight to the rumours.
Just last week, Sprint announced that it would be making the Palm Pre available in the US from 6 June, but there has been no official word as yet as to when UK users can get their hands on the device.
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Smartphone competition: Palm Pre vs iPhone 3.0 vs Blackberry Storm 2

PC World, by Daniel Ionescu

In the next few months four smartphones are going to battle it out. The Palm Pre, the iPhone 3.0, the BlackBerry Storm 2 and the Nokia N97 are all going for the crown title this summer. But which one should you choose?While not all of these four smartphones have been officially announced, rumors have been flying around for weeks anticipating the new Apple iPhone and the second iteration of the BlackBerry Storm. And there are enough leaks out there to put head to head some preliminary specs.I'm not going to run you through all the features of these phones, you can check that in this specs table I put together. However, there are a few interesting issues that I'm going to mention.

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