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Palm Pre coming to O2 ?

Numerous Spanish media outlets are reporting today that Telefónica’s Movistar will exclusively offer the Palm Pre in Spain, UK and Latin America. The Spanish newspaper Expansion reports (Translated) that Telefónica will offer the Pre in Spain "before summer."
In addition, the paper also reports that Telefónica’s subsidiary brand O2, will exclusively market the Pre in the UK, beating out its rival Vodafone. Movistar will also have the exclusive on the Palm Pre in many Latin American counties.
A GSM version of the Palm Pre is in the works and was recently spotted at the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. At that time the Pre’s in use at MWC were seen running on the Vodafone network, however Palm refused to talk about any specific carrier deals during the show.

It’s unclear at this point if the "before summer" timeframe given in the source article is an artefact of translation or simply a rumour. Palm has yet to issue an official statement, however numerous sources and articles have been published in the Spanish media.

If this turns out to be the case it will be a major coup for O2 in the UK to sell the iPhone alongside the Palm Pre, what a killer device line up.

via Palm Infocenter

Paid for Android Apps coming to UK tomorrow

T-Mobile has let slip that paid-for applications will be debuting on the Android Market tomorrow. Speaking at an Android developers forum in London, Regan Whitehead from T-Mobile confirmed that paid-for apps will be coming very shortly. "From tomorrow, UK customers will have paid apps on the phone, and there’ll be a wide selection of paid apps on the market," says Whitehead, according to Pocketgamer.

The spokesperson also pointed out that developers will be getting 70 per cent of the revenue, with the mobile operator, in this case T-Mobile, getting the remaining 30 per cent.

T-Mobile’s Richard Warmsley, Head of Internet and Entertainment, also confirmed that not only is the company now promoting Guitar Hero: World Tour for the G1, but that T-Mobile will launch tablet and UMPC-style devices in the future.

via Techradar

Windows Marketplace for Mobile Developer Strategy

Familiar tools, large worldwide customer base and transparent policies allow mobile developers to innovate and generate new revenue opportunities with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Microsoft Corp. today announced new details about how developers can build and sell applications for Windows^® phones through Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the recently announced application marketplace available with the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. In its commitment to helping developers create new and exciting applications, Microsoft will provide developers with 70 percent of the sales revenue of their applications from Windows Marketplace for Mobile, transparency throughout the certification process, and guidance and support from the stage of development to the final sale to the consumer. Developers can get the tools to begin developing for Windows^® phones at http://developer.windowsmobile.com. More after the break with a video from Microsoft.

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast No 28

Our latest podcast is now available to download, in episode 28 we are again joined by our USA writer Micah and we discuss Windows Mobile Marketplace, the new Acer devices recently announced, HTC product leaks, HTC Magic and other Android devices, iPhone turn by turn GPS and much more.You can subscribe via iTunes, RSS or download the mp3 file here. Full show notes after the break.

Pocket Informant for iPhone has been submitted to Apple!

                                 Just received some information form WebIS, “We are very excited about finally submitting Pocket Informant for iPhone to Apple yesterday. We’ve spent a lot of time making sure that version 1.0 of our application has the quality you expect from WebIS and the features you need to manage your day. Pocket Informant is an exciting application on the iPhone and even though we’re really proud of this first version, we have a lot more coming!”

With over eight years of mobile calendaring experience, we have delivered simply the best personal information manager available on the iPhone. As powerful as this release is, version 1.0 is just the beginning of a much larger vision we have for this product. Take a moment to look over what we have delivered this release…and we’re just getting started.

Joshua Topolsky shows off the Palm Pre on NBC

“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” which is a US chat show had a special guest last night, none other than Engadgets Joshua Topolsky, and he brought along some how or other, a Palm Pre. He demonstrated it briefly and it is good to see the device in someone else’s hands apart from a Palm employee. He also pulls out the Touchstone wireless charger. We have the video after the break and it is worth a watch just to see the Pre in action and put a face to the voice of the Engadget Podcast.

First turn by turn iPhone GPS application reviewed

This one sneaked out without us even noticing it but you can now get a turn by turn GPS application for the iPhone. Its not a known supplier of GPS software like TomTom or Garmin but XROADS G-Map have got their application in the App Store and Kicking Tires have done a thorough review and it looks like it’s a winner. Only available at this time with USA maps which are split between East and West Coast however there is no subscription and the maps are stored on the iPhone so no data charges to worry about either. Cost of each version is a very reasonable $19.00. Now the downside, there is no voice guidance at all and this we believe is down to Apples restrictions. They also state that a European version with Country by Country maps will be coming first quarter of this year so watch this space.

Link to the review

Link to the Application

Panoramic Software announce the release of Panoramic Phone Genius

Panoramic Software Inc. a software development company, announces the launch of Panoramic Phone Genius. for Windows Mobile. Comprising of three applications, Contacts Genius, Call Genius and Area Code Genius, together with a customizable Today Screen plug-in, Panoramic Phone Genius has been developed to give you all of the calling features a modern Smartphone should have while making the experience intuitive and easy.  More details and a video demo after the break.

Motorola announced the MC55 Windows Mobile EDA

Motorola, Inc . today announced the MC55, the newest, smallest and lightest addition to Motorola’s family of Enterprise Digital Assistants (EDA) offering a 3.5 inch display. Designed for mobile workers inside and outside an organization’s four walls and leveraging Motorola’s mobile computing platform architecture, the MC55 EDA combines the power of a cell phone, two-way radio, bar code scanner, digital camera, and mobile computer into a compact and lightweight design. The new MC55 EDA enables mobile workers to improve productivity, customer response times and customer service levels by bringing business-critical voice, data and applications to the point of business activity.