Palm announced it will no longer make Windows Mobile devices. Instead it will concentrate on its new webOS. Their current offering, the Palm Pre, runs it and has generated both praise and criticism. Most love the OS itself but are less pleased with the build quality of the device. Numerous complaints about the touchscreen and more »

Maybe you didn’t get the right smartphone for the holidays. Why not enter to win a free Palm Centro? This ruby red model normally retails for $79.99 with a two year contract. If you win, it can be yours for $0. Don’t want it for yourself? Why not give it to someone you love? To more »

Want a ruby red Palm Centro for absolutely $0? Normally, this Centro goes for $79.99 with a two year contract. Here, at Gadgetell, we’re in a giving mood. We’d like to give a thanks to our friends at Palm providing us with this great phone to give to you. Here’s what Palm has to say more »

How do you get the new Treo Pro free? Two easy steps: 1. Move to the UK. 2. Sign up for Vodaphone. In a move that is sure to have Treo fans jealous, Vodaphone is offering the new sexy black Treo Pro to its customers with different plans ranging from free to 340 pounds.

My hands on

Last week, we got to play with the Treo Pro. To see what Gadgetell thought of it, click more.

Palm has announced that their next-generation OS will be finished by the end of year and new handsets will be announced in the first half of 2009. The Linux based OS, which has been in development since 2003, is known as Palm OS II or Nova, and has been highly anticipated by Palm loyalists, many of who have been frustrated by the glacial pace of the new OS’s development.

Some further evidence that Palm is prepared to ride out the success of the Centro as far as it will take them, and the latest additions come in the form of a few new colors dubbed simply as “Green” and “Rose.” Both models were recently pictured (image above) over on the SprintUsers forum and offer more »

There was a lot of talk about who would take the biggest blow in the smartphone world with the intro of the iPhone. A Changewave study shows this chart. What’s interesting isn’t the data the graph is making obvious, it is the totals.

If you add up the % of the smartphone market, you’ll find the total market segment being served by Palm, Rim and Apple throughout this period isn’t changing. It is staying relatively flat at about 2/3rds of all smartphones. So this would suggest, the merry trio are not bringing new folks into the smartphone market, rather just cutting up the pie differently.

Palm is back? Perhaps. Today, Palm announced they sold their two millionth Centro smartphone. The $99 beauty is showing the world maybe Palm was just charging too much to gain some lasting market traction…perhaps that is too harsh. Indeed, Palm seems to have a hit on its hands: Admob Mobile Metrics shows the Centro making more »

In addition to that new electric blue model now being available for purchase, AT&T has also announced they have dropped the price on the Palm Centro. The offer, which is currently available and running through September 20 will drop the price of the Palm Centro to $69.99, of course that comes after a mail-in-rebate and more »

It looks like AT&T will soon be offering another flavor of the hot selling Palm Centro smartphone. The electric blue Palm Centro will be available beginning Friday and in addition to the new color, it will also get a drop in price. Palm however is keeping a tight wrap on just what the lowered price more »