Sprint Releasing Palm Centro in New Colors, More Storage

By Ed Hardy | 10/14/2008

Palm, Inc. has just announced that Sprint's version of the Centro will soon be available in two new shades: olive green and vibrant rose. These devices will also have twice the storage capacity of Sprint's earlier Centros.

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First ALP-Powered Smartphone Debuting this Month

By Ed Hardy | 10/13/2008

The first smartphone running Access's ALP -- one of the successors to the Palm OS -- should be out in October. This device will have a very high-resolution screen and other high-end features.

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Widen Your Choices with Unlocked Smartphones

By Ed Hardy | 10/10/2008

Brighthand's Editor-In-Chief uses his latest editorial to try to be sure those who are in the market for a new smartphone are aware of a little-used option: unlocked devices.

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iPhone 3G Tops the U.S. List of Consumer Smartphones

By Ed Hardy | 10/6/2008

The latest from Apple was the best-selling smartphone sold to consumers during the summer of this year. This was followed up by devices from RIM and Palm.

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SanDisk Will Soon Release 16 GB microSD Cards

By Ed Hardy | 9/29/2008

SanDisk has just announced it will bring its 16 GB microSDHC card to market next month. At launch, this will be the highest capacity microSD card available.

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Astraware Introduces Platypus for BlackBerry and Symbian Smartphones

By Ed Hardy | 9/27/2008

Following a release for Palm OS and Windows Mobile earlier this year, Astraware has launched its Platypus shoot-em-up for three more smartphone platforms: BlackBerry, Symbian S60 and UIQ.

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Touchscreen Next?

By AWright | 9/25/2008

New technologies like projection displays have the potential to revolutionize mobile computers, and Antoine Wright has been thinking hard about the future of touch-based user interfaces.

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Arrr! It Be Time for Talk Like a Pirate Day

By Ed Hardy | 9/19/2008

September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and several companies have made it easy for smartphone and handheld users to celebrate it.

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Palm Promises Next-Generation Operating System by Mid-2009

By Ed Hardy | 9/19/2008

In a conference call with industry analysts yesterday, Palm's CEO promised that devices running its next operating system would be on the market by the middle of next year.

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SDHC Driver for Palm Handhelds Now Available

By Ed Hardy | 9/19/2008

PalmPowerUps has released its much anticipated software that adds support for high-capacity memory cards to many of Palm's handhelds.

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FileFind 4.0 for Palm OS Introduced

By AWright | 9/18/2008

Tamoggemon Software has released an update to FileFind that streamlines performance and addresses issues users have had across various Palm OS devices.

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Palm Still Losing Money as It Works to Reinvent Itself

By Ed Hardy | 9/18/2008

Palm, Inc. had some good news to share about its most recent financial quarter: it sold over a million smartphones. But the company still reported a significant loss.

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