No sooner did we report the outlandish statement from Palm backer Elevation Partners head-geek Roger McNamee that come June, every iPhone 2G owner would ditch the platform and AT&T to become Pre-verts on Sprint, than our sibling site PreCentral.net went and updated. Seems McNamee thinks iPhone Mobile Safari ain't all that, compared to the Pre (even though the Pre uses Apple's open-...
With our editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn off in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the inmates site editors are left running Around SPE this week. So, while he'll be breaking news and giving us some hands-on observations on all the new software and hardware on display, we'll be keeping you covered here at home, starting with a quick recap of where we are right now: CrackBerry.com In...
Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes A smorgasbord of iPhone news, from Apple's quarterly financial to patent fights to the 3rd Gen iPhone. Listen in! News iPhone margins are huge, AT&T is happy, Apple had a decent quarter themselves Deets on apple and music companies Flash saga, part ...whatever part it is now Papermaster is in Shiny: Apple's...
Our best frenemy forever, CrackBerry Kevin Michaluk was gracious enough to join us on TiPb's iPhone Live! podcast a while back to talk BlackBerry Storm, so this week I returned the "favor" by invading the CrackBerry.com Podcast to talk all things iPhone (and some Palm Pre): Here it is folks. Another four-person CrackBerry.com podcast! We had a lot of positive feedback to our last...
What's the one thing worse than bloggers offering opinions about the likelihood of an Apple vs. Palm patent fight? That's right! Analysts! (Where's our magic 8 ball for a dissenting view when we need it?!) PreCentral.net picks up just such a story on how one analyst thinks Apple's IP claims against Palm just might be -- wait for it! -- fruitless: Though the review of granted and...
Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Joined by special guest, Mickey Papillion, the Cell Phone Junkie, Rene and Chad FINALLY get into some iPhone vs. Palm Pre (technical and legal!) action with Smartphone Expert's editor-in-chief -- and resident Palm expert -- Dieter Bohn who was live at the keynote and got quite a bit of hands-on time with the Pre at CES....
Following up on Apple Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook's comments during yesterday's Q1 conference call, and the supposition that he was hinting that Apple may just take legal action against the Palm Pre for violating Apple's intellectual property (i.e. patents), PC Mag quotes a reaction from Palm: A spokeswoman at Palm said Thursday that the company has not been contacted by Apple...
As I've said many times before on TiPb, I'm a Palm guy going back to the Palm V, and Treo guy going back to the Treo 600. When Palm essentially abandoned that user-base (see my Palm Treo Pro Round Robin video and review) a few years back, I abandoned them and dove headlong into the iPhone (and now the iPhone 3G). I still have a very warm spot in my heart for Palm, however, their...
Confession: I'm just leaving Macworld and haven't had a chance to form much of an opinion about the Palm Pre yet (see pics). TreoCentral (and our new baby sibling site, PreCentral.net) absolutely KILLED it on the first impressions, and make sure you check out the live blog (and congrats to Dieter on the trifecta of Schiller, Balmer, and Colligan all in one week! Superstar!). The Treo...
TiPb isn't the only Smartphone Experts site working our tails off this week. Our editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn is pulling the live-blogging trifecta, going straight from Macworld to cover Steve Ballmer's CES kickoff tonight at 6pm PST for WMExperts AND for the (very much anticipated) debut of Palm's next generation NOVA hardware and OS for TreoCentral -- not to mention everything...