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
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
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
BGR is at it again with new pictures of the real Palm Treo 850. This looks like a slick device although the keyboard looks very cramped. When the original Treo 600 came out the keyboard was so cramped they had to expand it and curve it a little. Why would they go back to a cramped keyboard? We'll see how bad it is when it's released, but the rest of the device looks good.
BGR says the Treo 850 is sporting a 400 MHz processor and 100 MB of RAM. We can't wait to get our hands on one....read more
According to Bloomberg, US cell phone carrier Sprint may start selling assets to help improve a bad situation for the company. After losing more than 1 million customers last quarter things are looking down for Sprint. In fact, Sprint's quarterly net loss was $505 million.
Some options include selling of Nextel or finding a buyer for the company. They will also be closing Sprint stores and lowering prices.
Customers have been leaving Sprint for other carriers due to poor service. Have ...read more
Palm has sent a letter out to their developer community confirming the existence of two new phones. The letter asks their launch developers to submit applications for participation in the launch of the new devices. The new devices, Zeppelin and Skywriter could come out later this year as the application deadline is May 30.
One of the devices is rumored to be a Centro-like Windows Mobile phone.
The picture that was included in the email is a mock up but surely Palm's phone will look more li...read more
The Washington Post is asking the question about the aging Palm OS. Now owned by Japan's Access Software, Palm OS has been in serious decline for a long time. Without even a new paint job in recent years, the Palm OS has seen many users flee to other more advanced devices like the BlackBerry, iPhone, or AT&T Tilt.
PC World Contributing Editor James A. Martin calls Palm, Inc. a "third-tier smart phone vendor." That's quite a slam for the company that started the hype in the PDA space so many y...read more
T-Mobile is preparing to ship its first cell phones based on Google's Android operating system this year. The release of the gPhone is expected to bring an "avalanche of innovation from users - and radical changes to what customers expect and demand."
Joe Sims, vice president and general manager of T-Mobile's broadband and new business division, said he had already seen prototypes of the company's Android-based phone and says he's "impressed." Sims also says they will have more than one produ...read more
Palm has launched the Centro in Columbia through Comcel and Movistar. The Centro will be available in blue and red in Columbia.
With a fun, new compact design, Centro is Palm's smallest and lightest smartphone. Centro helps users manage email and text messaging, keep track of their schedules, stay up-to-date on the latest news, capture and share pictures, and get directions on Google(TM) Maps -- all in one small, fun compact phone.(1) Its full keyboard also makes it easy to quickly type text m...read more
Palm is adding another color to its Centro lineup. We've already seen white, pink, red, black, an charcoal. This time the Palm Centro will appear in Blue. The only problem with this release is that it is hitting Mexico via carriers Telcel and Movistar. The US won't see this Blue GSM Centro for awhile....read more
Palm has announced that the Palm Centro will be released in Mexico via Telcel and Movistar.
The Palm Centro has proven to be one of Palm's most successful devices selling over one million units so far.
With a fun, new compact design, Centro is Palm's smallest and lightest smartphone, now available in Mexico in red and blue. Centro helps users manage email and text messaging, keep track of their schedules, stay up-to-date on the latest news, capture and share pictures, and get directions on G...read more
