According to our buddies at Fonehome.co.uk, the Palm (Palm Pre, only’>NSDQ: PALM) Pre Plus, and Pixi plus have been passed by the GCF (Global Certification Forum), which apparently indicates that they will be heading to the UK soon. We all know the Palm Pre Plus has more RAM and repositing than its predecessor, along with some improvements to the slider – but fewer changes were made to the Pixi Plus – notably just the 1 big ticket item of wireless local area network being added.

All of this though is in the face of Palms fairly dire situation with its stock right now, which obviously was derived from the fact that not so many Palm Pre devices got sold (leading to the rumoured massive backlogs of devices distillery to be shipped). So let’s hope that Palm shifts some book when these devices smash – they could conceivably do just that if (and it’s the big if) the perfect violent storm of monetary value, network, duty, and incentives can be found. We wait with baited breath!

[Via: Fonehome via: TheUnwired]

When it comes to mobile internet search, alliances ar short-lived and loyalties are looser than, well, you get the distributor point. AT&T (New York Stock Exchange: T) recently kicked Google (NSDQ: GOOG) off the Android-powered Motorola BackFlip, in ordering to get in layer with Yahoo as the default hunt locomotive on the smartphone. Now, T-Mobile River (New York Stock Exchange: DT) United States Army has up and shuffled Google out the door to make quad for Yahoo. The 2-class correspondence between Yahoo and T-Mobile is apparently no more, and the twenty-five percent-largest US wireless aircraft carrier is look elsewhere for mobile search. That elsewhere is Google.

To keep with the search-is-promiscuous-business theme, net ball’s revisit T-Mobile’s not too long ago wedding to Yahoo. The partnership between Yahoo and T-Mobile River was supposed to be beautiful. It birthed a new T-Mobile vane portal vein, it spread to many handsets, but alas, the union did not last. Today, things are different. The Magenta aircraft carrier has apparently decided that there’s nonentity keeping it tied to Yahoo and has already turned to Google’s waiting coat of arms.

The deal should boost Google’s bruised self, coming off the “burn” delivered by AT&ere;T, by means of the BackFlip. It’s not clear what the terms of the deal were, but mobile hunt deals aren’t anything to scoff at. It recently cost Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) a sang-froid one-half billion (with a “B”) dollars to get Bing on deck as the default search engine on Sprint (NYSE: S) phones.

It’s not open how long T-Mobile’s commitment to Google is at this point, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see them look for a new search partner in the not too distant future tense. That’s how things go in the crazy mobile hunt biz. Hey, father’t hatred the playa, hate the game.

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For Canadian mobile goers, WirelessWave has been the place to go if you’ve wanted to save a few bucks on the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Palm Pre?’>Pre. First they discounted it to $99.95, this it was $49.95, and then they dropped it (not so long ago) to a ridiculous $24.95. Now, they’ve dropped the monetary value again, and me thinks this unity is departure to be just a little hard to beat. How does FREE sound to you? Pretty darn goodness doesn’t it? That’s exactly the price you’ll wage to choice up a Pre at WirelessWave, on a new 3-class contract bridge at Bell. Sure, getting locked into a 3-class deal does kind of sucking, but if you were contemplating a new Pre for yourself or that special person… You might as wellspring choice it up for free people and then settle into that monthly part/information beak for the next 3 years

For all the inside information, smash up WirelessWave.

Note: In lawsuit you were wondering, Alexander Bell distillery lists the Pre at $99.95 on a 3-year terminus.

[Via: MobileSyrup]

“Bell is only the second flattop in the world to fling the awarding-winning Palm Pre, which is acquiring rave reviews for its uniquely attractive design and subversive Palm webOS(TM) mobile chopines. We’ve seen exceptionally strong advance interest in Palm Pre and wealthy person worked closely with Palm to ensure we wealthy person sufficient stock on hand to satisfy requirement,” said Wade Oosterman, Chief Executive of Alexander Graham Bell Mobility and Chief Brand Officer for Bell.

Palm Pre is the first base earpiece based on the all-new Palm webOS platform, which brings mobile applications together in a unique and intuitive multi-tasking surroundings that is integrated with the most popular mixer networking tools and powerful search functions.

Palm Pre is now available at Alexander Graham Bell stores, Bell.ca and Bell retail partners Best Buy, Future Shop, The Telephone John Wilkes Booth/La Cabine Tйlйphonique, Walmart, WIRELESS etc. and Wireless Wave, or by calling 1-888-4mobile. It costs as little as $199.95 on a three-year contract bridge or $599.95 without a contract bridge with a lower limit 500 MB data architectural plan. For more entropy, please visit gong.ca/mobile.

The Palm webOS chopines takes multi-tasking to a new level. Customers will love the ability to tally multiple applications such as Internet, textual matter messaging, email and music at the same metre, and move easily between them exploitation cancel finger gestures. When they no longer need the point, they tin can closing curtain an activeness by simply flicking it off the top of the screen.

The smooth, rounded ergonomic design makes Palm Pre a comfortable fit in your helping hand or pocket. The physical keyboard that slides out from beneath a large touching screen provides fast access to content on the twist or vane.

Palm webOS also features Palm Synergy(TM), which brings the user’s entropy from all the places it resides into I logical sight so they don’t wealthy person to headache about trailing multiple calendars, contacts, e-mail accounts and electronic messaging applications. The Synergy lineament pulls information from a guest’s Outlook, Google and Facebook accounts, including Facebook profile pictures, into the contacts application – a compelling lineament for the 85% of online Canadians that wealthy person a Facebook account.

Palm’s unique universal hunting allows customers to uncovering what they need easily – just coast surface the keyboard, commencement typing to get minute results. Results ar pulled from the twist apps, contacts and popular Internet sites including Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia and Twitter.

2.63-in multi-touch blind, 18-bit color, 320Ч400 solving Global Positioning System 2 megapixel fixed focus photographic camera 3.5 mm headphone jack Bluetooth 2.1 8 GB of repositing built in Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) MSM7627 chipset 55 mm x 111 mm x 10.85 mm; 99.5 grams

I’d be curious to see what the price distributor point is departure to be like, mainly since it will be downgrading the Pre’s camera and blind size, as well as pickings out Wi-Fi. Is anyone holding out for this that didn’t just go out and buy a Pre already?

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In the latest Palm Pixi custody-on video, FoneFrenzy takes quite a goodness looking at the little sib of the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre. Not too much else to say here, this makes for some interesting Fri good morning wake

The Palm Pixi of course volition be coming to Sprint (NYSE: S) sometime in Q4 of this class… so we’ll be hearing much more on this unity before the class is out.

Here’s a few key specs on the Pixi in lawsuit you’ve missed ‘em:

Runs Palm webOS (duh) 2.63″ touching blind (18-bit color and 320×240 Sub-HVGA) GPS 2MP camera with LED flash bulb Exchange email with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Direct Push Technology POP3/IMAP Ambient light source detector, proximity sensor and accelerometer built in Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP 8GB memory microUSB 3.5mm earphone jackass Palm Touchstone compatible weighs only 3.51 ounces

For more on the Pixi, hit up Palm.

Aside from this, we’ve no detailed specifications. There is some camera on the back, and we see Samsung’s appliance-friendly TouchWIZ UI run on that large touchscreen. Release date is unknown quantity and the same goes for pricing. We do, however, think it will be released by the end of this year…

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Like the G1, myTouch 3G was also designed by HTC and boasts of a 3.2-inch HVGA touching blind display with portrait and landscape manner, a 3.2MP camera, music actor, 4GB microSD memory card, enhanced video recording capabilities, Wi-Fi and T-Mobile River’s 3G net.

myTouch 3G would also lineament quick access to various Google services including direct video upload to YouTube and Picasa, easy approach to Google Search by part, and Google Maps with Street View. For its email features, myTouch 3G supports corporate e-chain mail run on Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, and other Pop3 and iMAP email client. Synchronization to Google Contacts and Calendars is also a breeze with myTouch 3G.

For its moment electronic messaging lineament, the phone supports Windows Live Messenger, AOL, Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger.

myTouch 3G would also feature new applications including Sherpa which is a learning locomotive for customizing the earphone based on user preferences – such as likes and dislikes, favourite retailes, restaurants and other attractions. The app also features a customization locomotive and location relevant selective information.

myTouch 3G volition be available in on July 8, 2009 for $199.99 with a 2 year overhaul correspondence with T-Mobile River. It volition be available in three colours – red, white and black.

While I’m still a bit pumped about Android officially advent to Canada, I figured I should post a little more Android love for everyone today. Above I’ve got an functionary video tour of the Android 1.5 Cupcake update. The update is coming down feather the tube OTA next week, so T-Mobile River (NYSE: DT) users can looking forward to everything you see here… Next workweek. Cupcake looks sweeeeet.

For more information on new features and highlights included in Android 1.5, you can smash up the Android Developers Blog.