A German supermarket chain has introduced a new way to checkout your items. In the new chain of stores, customers can pay for their purchases with a specially adapted mobile telephone.
"The Future Store" was recently opened near Duesseldorf. Customers pick up a specially adapted phone when they come to the store. When they pick something up for purchase they scan the barcode by taking a picture with their phone. At the end of their shopping trip they place the phone in a machine at the door...read more
Palm has posted a ROM update on its web site for the Verizon Palm Treo 755p. Precise details of what the update fixes aren't listed but Palm says "this software update is a tune-up that improves the phone application, stability and device usability."
The update is for Verizon's version of the Treo 755p only. Make sure you do the usual backups before installing the update. The process should take about 45 minutes.
Check the link below for the update....read more
The Sprint version of the Palm Treo 800w is just a few weeks away from release (July 13) and more pictures are leaking out. This time WMExperts has the pictures. These are blurry spy pics of the upcoming Treo 800 but it does look good. Can't wait to get our hands on this one....read more
A leaked document posted at Howard Forums shows that Sprint will release the Treo 800w on July 13. Business Partners should be able to pick up the device a little earlier, July 9, but most of use will have to wait for the 13th.
The full price of the Treo 800w will be $599 although you can get that down to $249 with contracts and rebates.
The document also makes clear that Sprint will release a red version of the BlackBerry Curve on the same date....read more
TreoCentral is reporting that Verizon's Palm Treo 700wx will get a Windows Mobile 6 Professional update. Someone apparently uncovered a set of Palm internal training slides that detail a number of upcoming rom updates and the Treo 700wx is on the list.
The Verizon Treo 700wx Update v1.24 is expected to come sometime during the spring or summer.
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Butler - is the assistant who thinks of everything. Alarms, Attention Grabber, Navigation, Launching, LED, Keyguard and Much More.
Butler contains 7 sets of utilities yet costs less than most single applications. Please note that Butler is only written for the Palm Treo.
Features:
Alarms - Repeating alarms with ringtones or MP3 (No need to buy an MP3 Player)
Alerts - Nags you like a pager to make sure you don't miss anything
Security - Remote lock allows you do lock or delete ...read more
For all those Palm users who are actually iPhone wannabes, TouchLauncher might be a solution. We're not sure Apple will stand by and let this application go forward without a challenge, but as you can see in this video your Palm can look a little more like an iPhone.
TouchLauncher lets you scroll through the icons on your screen as you would on an iPhone.
The TouchLauncher supports finger scrolling, dragging and dropping icons, and dropping web links onto the Palm desktop.
You can download t...read more
Palm Inc. has released a Facebook application for Palm OS. Palm's free Facebook application gives you access to Facebook's network from your Palm OS device. See the link below for more information.
"Stay connected to your friends on Facebook right from your Centro™ smartphone. Respond to messages, upload photos and video, and receive status updates just like you’re on the Facebook website. You can browse your friends' profiles and send out new friend requests.1
Download the application dire...read more
Palm Inc.'s Centro smart phone is finally launching on Verizon Wireless according to the companies. The blue Palm Centro will be available from Verizon Wireless' stores and Web site for $99 starting Friday. Sprint has offered the Centro for quite some time now but it's better late than never for Verizon.
The Palm Centro, a compact version of the Treo line of phones, is largely responsible for bringing Palm Inc. back to life in the smart phone arena. Palm's market share went from 7.9% to 13.4...read more
If you have a Palm Treo 755p from Alltel you have a firmware update waiting for you. Palm's explanation for the update is a little archaic but they say the update is "for a phone reset issue that occurs under certain specific and rare conditions."
Check the link below for the update....read more
We're all still waiting for the new Treos 800 and 850 to be release. Here's another blurry picture of the said 800w. It is expected to be released by Sprint on July 13 but that date is also a rumor. Pricing should be around $250 after contracts, discounts, etc. We can't wait!...read more
When I heard that Spb Software House had released a new mobile software entitled Spb Mobile Shell, I had to try it. The promise of better one handed operation of my Pocket PC phone was compelling enough to download it, and all the screen captures I saw looked great. I have to admit that my initial guess was that it would probably be sluggish because it appeared to be a new shell for my Pocket PC Phone. I am happy to say, I was wrong! It's fast and gorgeous.
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Google decided to show off the Android operating system at the Google I/O Conference last week. Andoidcommunity.com was there and took some video footage of the presentation. Check out the video of Google Android. Will Google be able to dominate the smart phone market? We'll see....read more
We're all waiting patiently for the new Palm Treo 850 to be released. We've seen leaked pictures of the new device but now comes a new report that the full specs have been released.
According to TamsPPC's Blog, a friend working at Palm has his hands on a Treo 850. The friend describes the Treo 850 like this: "It can be regarded as the evolution of the 750 line of devices. The unit is a little wider, but much slimmer than the Centro, it’s 175 MB for user), 32 MB SDRAM and Windows Mobile Pro ...read more
