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Palm publishes Q1 revenue

Palm just announced revenues in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended Aug. 28, 2009, were $68.0 million. Gross profit was ($2.8) million, and gross margin was (4.1) percent. These results include the effects of subscription accounting applied to Palm webOS products as required by GAAP. In accordance with this methodology, revenues and direct cost of revenues for Palm webOS products (currently Palm Pre smartphone) are deferred and recognized over the product’s estimated economic life.
Later in the announcement, they explain that "Non-GAAP Adjusted Revenues in the first quarter totaled $360.7 million, non-GAAP Adjusted Gross Profit was $100.6 million and non-GAAP Adjusted Gross Margin was 27.9 percent."
What does this mean?

Palm leaving Windows Mobile behind

Agh. More bullets for Windows Mobile. Today Jon Rubinstein, CEO at Palm, confirmed in a financial resultsconference call that Windows Mobile was no longer part of their future line-up. He stated that…
"Due to importance of webOS to our overall strategy, we’ve made the decision to dedicate all future develoment resources to the evolution of webOS. Which means that going forward, our roadmap will include only Palm webOS-based devices"
PreCentral reckons that the Treo line will still continue, but with the advent of the Palm Pre they’re heading in a whole new webOS direction.
Hmm. It looks like the 1000 people working on Windows Mobile 7 have an even steeper hill to climb.

[Source PreCentral.net via Coolsmartphone]

3D iPlane Pro for iPhone released

Here comes low budget flight simulator that costs just one buck and is also available in a limited free version.

T-Mobile increases roaming rates outside EU

T-Mobile has announced it will be increasing roaming charges for all customers outside the EU from 26 October.
The operator sent a text message to its customers to inform them of the changes last week, which will affect all pay as you go, contract and some business customers.
A steep increase in prices will take effect for calls made and received in Andorra, the Faroe Islands and Switzerland, where the price will rise from 55p per minute to £1 per minute.
The operator blamed the price increase on the fees paid to local service providers and the weak pound.
In June, the network increased prices for roaming in the EU by 6p per minute, to 44p per minute. At the time, the operator justified the change by saying it had to reduce the price of sending text messages on the Continent, in line with price caps issued by the EU.

[Source: mobiletoday]

Palm Pre, Sim Free, £450

Here is an article from Mypre.com that’ll get some excited. Seems you’ll be able to pre-order a Palm Pre for £450, sim-free. That’s an attractive price I must say. However, I’m wondering were these sim free phones are fitting into the limited stock levels Palm are talking about.

Nokia running out of stock?

Dealers and distributors have been struggling to source Nokia handsets for the past month and have complained of particular difficulties with the 6700.
The phone has been in short supply throughout August and is only just beginning to be available again.
Dealers and distributors cited a number of reasons for difficulties in sourcing the 6700. 
One distributor said: ‘There has been a shortage of Nokia handsets and we have been told there have been some component issues, but that they have now been resolved.’
One dealer said: ‘We waited eight weeks for some 6700s and received a delivery a few days ago, but only 10.’
Some believe the market has been ‘under forecast’ and there is a global shortage.
Nokia said: ‘The N97, 6700, 6303 and 5800 are currently selling strongly across all channels. On some occasions, there has been a short delay in supply arriving from our factories into the UK and being distributed to our customers.

[Source: Mobiletoday]

T3 review Motorola DEXT

T3 have gotten their hands on the Motorola DEXT from Orange. This highly anticipated Android phone looks the biz and seems to actually BE the biz. Packing the first qwerty keyboard on an Android device since the G1 read on for the complete review.

IS the HTC Leo Capacitive?

Here’s a little video showing the HTC Leo’s multi-touch capabilities. No sound, so nothing confirmed but it’ll be an exciting leap for Windows Mobile if it is. Video after the break:

Orange resolves broadband issues after outage

Orange has resolved issues with its broadband service and BlackBerry emails after an outage last week (11 September). The BlackBerry issues, where emails were down for around one day, were caused by vandalism of cables at Heathrow, according to the operator.
Orange broadband, which was previously known as Wanadoo, is also up and running again after going down for a period of time last Thursday (10 September).
The operator did not give a reason for the problems.

[Source Mobilenews]

HTC Hero update for UK

HTC has released the Hero update for UK users on the download page over on the UK HTC support site. The long-awaited ROM update is designed to cure a little lag and bring speed to the Android device, as well as a new focus feature for the camera on the Hero.

The ROM was released earlier to the Danish support site and better late than never; now UK Hero users can enjoy faster speeds on their Androids as well.

The update is PC-friendly, though it will remove any previous Orange or T-Mobile updates that the carriers may have made in the time you’ve owned your HTC Hero.

If you download the ROM update from the UK site, let the community here at HTCPedia know how it works out for you, as well as any feedback for the installation process.

[Source HTCpedia]