From our friends at blackberrycool.com:
Appears as though the Palm of the handheld world is getting all clammy. With recent news that Motorola has bought up symbol technologies, Yahoo Finance reports that the same fate could be handed to Palm. Jonathan Hoppes, an analyst at Think Equity, isn’t sure on who the buyer would be (leaning towards Motorola), but feels as though there’s definite value in picking up the company.
Hoopes says his belief that either Motorola or another company will pursue the company “is a major reason we did not encourage investors to sell shares despite management’s recent track record of mis-execution.”
A nice little sidenote from the article mentions that although Motorola’s been making/planning some purchases, Research In Motion still isn’t anywhere close to being unseated at the top of the handheld world. Ba-zing, Motorola. Save your coinage and spend it creating a new ringtone - anyone else tired of that “Hello Moto” jerk?
Computerworld.com.au has a great little overview of Sprint’s foray back into the Palm space with the 700WX. Some highlights:
- There is a 1.3-megapixel camera that also captures video, for example, and the Treo does a photo album and slide shows with pictures you take with it or load onto it. The pictures aren’t wonderful, but they’re certainly good enough for e-mailing.
- There’s audio and video playback courtesy of the Windows Media Player bundled with the operating system. It’s just fine, especially if you invest in an adapter for the 2.5mm headset jack and attach a pair of real headphones, or use a Bluetooth stereo headset. (The media-file library on the Treo can sync with Windows Media on your PC, something like iTunes and an iPod, but that’s the hard way. Just stick some MP3 files on an SD card and plug it into the Treo’s SD socket.) The sound quality through the unit’s small speaker is awful, but it’s not as bad as you’d expect.
- The Treo provides viewers for Office documents and PDF files that come as e-mail attachments or are loaded onto the device. Functionality is wonderful: You can edit Word documents and zoom into PDF files, but how much of that do you really want to do on a screen the size of four stamps?
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Google continues their world domination with the addition of Google AdWords to their mobile service. This will allow AdWord customers to reach their target market better than ever - and it’s not intrusive in the least, no. Check out the full report over at RCRNews.
The NY Times’ David Pogue reviews the Pearl in a style Ron Popeil would be envious over - he puts poor Bonnie to shame. Check out a more comprehensive (and slightly more entertaining) video review of the Pearl here.
Leave it to Boy Genius to get the sword out of the stone, and do so with some noticeably well-manicured hands. He’s dropped the Pearl to the wayside and is now giving press leaking information about another exciting handheld, one that we’ve spoken of before - the HTC Excalibur.
It was tough to rifle through all of the gushing, but we managed to find out some quality notables about the Excalibur. A sleek and compact design gives this device a sense of quickness and stealth-like abilities, which Boy Genius confirms with note of it being incredibly responsive and the “fastest Windows Smartphone” he’s ever used. Built-in Wifi, a “soft not squishy” keypad, and a clear speaker are other highlights of this HTC release.
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Thanks to Flickr, shots from the RIM’s rumoured September 6 Pearl press conference have made an appearance, albeit a lackluster one. Nothing new and exciting can really stem from these shots, but since someone took the effort to take the pics, we might as well do the same and post them.
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Pinstack.com admin Hydn has put together a comprehensive guide to the BlackBerry Pearl’s new features. We thought it would be prudent to give you the Pearl’s full media specs here; see it all after the jump.
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The official Pearl release has the tech world salivating. Check out what some other folks are churning out regarding the BlackBerry 8100.
MSNBC.com
“If you’re addicted to BlackBerry you’ve gotta try the Pearl. If you want a state-of-the-art smartphone, run to T-Mobile. And even if all you want is a wireless e-mail device, the Pearl was invented just for you. Highly recommended..”
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If you’d like to see one of RIM’s co-CEOs putting on his best infomercial face and trying to sell you the Pearl, you need look no farther than here. In the “Inspiration” section of the Pearl’s official website, Mike Lazaridis tells viewers that that Pearl project was 3 years in the making, and that it represents the first BlackBerry consumers will look at and say “I want one.” We couldn’t say it any better ourselves, Mikey.
CNET has a very brief video review of the BlackBerry Pearl up on their website. It’s not that informative (and in fact gets some things wrong, like saying the Pearl has a 2x camera zoom instead of 5x), but it did tell us one thing that we didn’t know before: the backside of the Pearl has a fairly large mirror directly underneath the camera, so you can see yourself while taking a picture.
Worth checking out to see video of the Pearl, though. Go here.