A Touch HD Pro is a great idea. There are many situations where you’ll be much more comfortable typing on a keyboard than you would on a touch screen. Emails, for example, are best written on a keyboard. The BlackBerry Storm is supposed to revolutionize the way we type on a touch screen, but even they might be abandoning that format for the BlackBerry Magnum. The BlackBerry Magnum, for those who haven’t heard, is basically a BlackBerry Curve with a touch screen. Making it a heavy duty Treo-like device.
Size isn’t really a big deal for me because it usually means a bigger screen which is fine by me. That being said, I’m still curious to see how big the HTC Touch HD Pro will be.
[Via Slashgear]
News and rumor site Brighthand has discovered that Dell may soon reveal plans to release a smartphone.
The story comes from MarketingWeek, who were told by “senior industry sources” that Dell’s phone, which will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress next month, would be running Google’s new mobile OS called Android.
You can check the original article for some background on Dell’s previous mobile phone business and some more information on Android.
The gang at PalmInfocenter discovered that Palm has hired Mike Bell, a 16-year Apple employee, to be their new Senior Vice President of Product Development.
The move was done with minimal fanfare, and Silicon Valley news site Valleywag says the reason for the silence is due to some possible bad blood between Palm and Apple. Palm’s chairman, Jon Rubinstein, was on the team at Apple before leaving in 2006 and has been snapping up Apple engineers for Palm ever since, leading to “screaming matches and threats of lawsuits” between the two companies.
Apple is of course renowned for industrial design and innovative user interfaces, so this could be very good for Palm and their recent slump.
Palm rumors abound: hot on the heels of the rumor that Palm might be closing their retail stores, WMExperts finds an anonymous user on their forums that claims to have details on the Treo 800w.
The mysterious “anonuser” has made two posts on the WMExperts forums, claiming that the 800w is about as thin as the Centro, will ship with Windows Mobile 6, and will feature an EvDO Rev. A radio, Bluetooth 2.0, and 802.11g WiFi support amongst other things.
According to the user, who claims received his or her information a source inside Sprint, the device will ship in April of this year. Nothing to do but wait and see…