Palm and Verizon have announced that the carrier-specific version of the 755p is now available. This one features EVDO, a 1.3MP camera, and sports the internal antenna arrangement. Here’s the link for my ZIP. Price is US$349 after a US$100 online discount and with the obligatory 2 year contract extension.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: mobile, news, palm, treo, verizon

Palm isn’t doing so well, again. On recent news of a delay of a new product and lower than expected revenues from the popular Palm Centro device, Palm’s stock has been dropping like mobile network calls (that’s a joke). Yeah. Despite its brisk sales of the smaller, cooler, less expensive Palm smartphone, the Centro, its not pulling in enough revenue to make projections, and investors show their displeasure by selling stock. This MacWorld article also points out that they are also facing RIM, Apple, and Motorola with pretty much nothing.

I used to be an unabashed Palm lover, and in some ways I still am. I hate Windows Mobile since it hasn’t changed significantly since the days of Windows CE 1.0 and it still crashes with regularity. Symbian is nice, but too complicated, and nobody has come up with a decent, marketable Linux-based mobile OS yet, including Palm. Palm used to be the rock. Why can’t they get their act together?

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: business, news, palm