So finally it’s official, the 16th of October is the day UK residents get hold of the Palm Pre. The device, which is exclusive to O2 will be available free on 18 month contracts starting at £45 a month, or 24 month contracts from £35 a month. You will be able to get the phone from either O2 stores direct, Carphone Warehouse or Phones4U as well as O2 online.
I’ll be there in line (if there is one) will you?
Thanks to Dave M for the snappy heads-up on this breaking news item.
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To backup predictions featured in my previous post, Engadget Mobile have worked their magic again and come-up with some sources that have given up some pictures and specs on the Palm “EOS”
Engadget Mobile state:
We just got the full spec list. And yes, it’s definitely coming to AT&T (if it’s really coming).
- 4GB storage
- Price: $349 (pre-rebate)
- Camera: 2 megapixel fixed focus digital camera and flash / video capture
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 w/ A2DP and EDR, USB 2.0 via micro USB
- Removable 1150 mAh battery (4 hours 3G talk time)
- Messaging: SMS, MMS (picture and video only), integrated IM client
- Contact sync with AT&T Address Book
- MediaNet
- Cellular Video
- Email: POP3, IMAP4, and EAS support
- A-GPS
- Audio: WAV, MP3, AAC, AAC+ ringtones
- Video Playback: MPEG4, H.264, H.263
So a second device seems ever more likely now, not sure how this will pan out with the Pre, I fear it may drop sales in the device while people wait to get reviews of it and then buy then second gen one, however the specs seem different enough to maybe not cause that.
We’ll see
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So since Palm announced the Pre huge amount of rumors have been floating around the Internet about things such as carriers, release dates etc etc. I thought I would round up some of the more recent and interesting developments.
Firstly we have the release date:
Next on the list is the number of devices available:
Lastly we have another Pre:
Mike Arrington of Techcrunch wrote today that:
One of our better sources indicated to us that Palm is “very far along” on a second Pre-like device and currently has plans to put it on the market in the late part of 2009, possibly as early as the Fall.
If this is true then maybe Palm will put the device price a bit lower and limit the number handsets available, this would leave room then for a more expensive device later on this year once public approval of the Pre comes through (assuming it does).
I think you’ll agree there are some interesting and some strange rumors floating around at the moment. I wait with baited breath to see what’s next!
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You might notice on the right of this page that a new gadget has appeared, stating my current location. This little thing was created for me by Dave Marsland using FireEagle and some .Net coding. I can update it from my mobile phone at anytime using GPS or triangulation between cell towers.
It is the starting point for a project I want to do (with the aid of Dave for the coding) that will allow me to be tracked when I run the London Marathon (entry pending online ballot). For more info on my progress to running the marathon checkout www.2menandamarathon.co.uk a site developed by me and maintained by myself and my friend Jamie (who is also looking to do the Marathon). The FireEagle service and some coding from Dave will hopefully allow us to be tracked using GPS the whole way round the course!
Thanks a lot to Dave for this!
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It seems like only a few days ago I was blogging about my bad back and all the things I wanted to post over the following weekend and all of a sudden right out of nowhere it’s June the 20th and I’ve posted nothing for 20 days! That’s bad, work has been so demanding it seems to have absorbed most of my time and the time it hasn’t sucked away from me, has been spent either sleeping or resting as a result of being tired from all the work!
I am training at the moment to hopefully move into a vacant management role, there is a bit of competition from someone else so I’m having to work pretty hard to make sure I am the one they choose!
Anyway as a result my online life has been put a lil bit on the back burner. Google reader has 381 items for me to sift through, my emails are mostly junk at the moment so that’s fine and as you have probably noticed the blogging got left behind.
Right that’s enough explaining on with the news.
Looks like the Yahoo MSFT deal is totally off, the new 3G iPhone was released (snore). Yahoo partners with Google to allow Google ads on Yahoo search pages. Firefox 3 was officially released (yay). Nasa finds Ice evidence of ice on the surface of Mars! The WiMax Forum certifies it’s first 2.5GHz products. WiMax will be the future, and I want to discuss that much more but it deserves a post all to itself!
Other than what’s above there has not been much else major that has happened, not that I have noticed on my radar anyway! I did go and see a physio about my back yesterday though, apparently my posture is appalling, my spine bends in the wrong place and I don’t exercise enough! I think most of that I knew already, She’s given me exercises to do so we’ll see if they help.
Right, that’s enough for now!
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