2010
Hewlett-Packard to buy Palm for $1.4B in cash
(via)Palm Inc. a pioneer in the smart phone business that couldn’t quite make the comeback it needed, has agreed to be bought out by Hewlett-Packard Co. for about $1.4 billion in cash.
Handy Google apps you’ve never used
(via)By now, most know that Google is about far more than search. Gmail, Google maps, and Blogger are used widely.
2009
Nokia N-Gage (N96)
(via)N-Gage V2 washes away the bitter taste left by Nokia’s original, much-unloved handset. It’s now a gaming platform on an elite selection of Nokia phones, rather than a range of spectacularly hideous, underpowered handsets.
Moto Bling With Motorola Aura
(via)If your idea of luxury is a fine, handcrafted timepiece, then we’ve got the mobile phone for you. The Motorola Aura was inspired by luxury watches
Set to be huge Nokia N97
(via)What do you get if you take the touchscreen from a 5800 Xpress and slap it on a Nokia N Series mobile?
2008
Treo packs Windows, too
What’s Windows doing in a Palm? We’d like to think it’ll do very well, now that Palm’s smart phones come with another choice for the operating system.
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