If you followed our live-blog coverage of Sprint’s Palm Pre webcast, you’re probably wondering just how much of the webcast was new information. The answer would be a disappointing “not much.” The Sprint (NYSE: S) Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre webcast proved to be little more than a marketing stunt, albeit of high caliber...

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Following inventory leaks and early pictures, Sprint (NYSE: S) has gone official on the Rumor 2, available in stores as of April 19th for $49.99 on contract after rebate. It should be online in the next couple of days, and word has it Alltel also has a version available here. The original Rumor did very well for itself, and although the sequel doesn’t pack many features over the original.....

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This morning’s hyped-up Palm Pre webcast from Sprint (NYSE: S) proved to be little more than marketing fluff. We learned little more about the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre than what we already knew from CES and MWC, not that we’re disappointed or anything. But, isn’t it interesting that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) chose to announce the iPhone 3.0 OS on the same day that Sprint was supposed to wow the world with more Palm Pre specifics?

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Sprint has already locked up the Palm Pre as a Sprint-exclusive handset in the US. The world waits for the Palm Pre to bring the WebOS to life and hopefully bring Palm (NSDQ: PALM) back from the brink. Sprint (NYSE: S) is excited too, they’ve been busy telling the world how Palm is their soul-mate and all that. As for the rest of the world, new reports from Spanish-language newspapers point to Telefonica as Palm’s exclusive Palm Pre carrier in Spain, UK, and Latin America.

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O2 is launching a new proposition which offers customers up to four SIMs to connect to the O2 (NYSE: TEF) 30-day online simplicity tariffs. The first customer can give the three other SIMs to friends and family which, once connected, will give them unlimited O2 to O2 texts and unlimited O2 to O2

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With the auto industry lagging behind an even slower global economy that brought on Circuit City’s failure, Sirius XM’s revenue (which rely heavily on new car sales and Circuit City sales) has taken a bit of a downturn. But, with bankruptcy problems behind them, the satellite radio company is looking forward to a better 2009 - a year that should see the launch of a Sirius XM streaming music iPhone application in the second quarter.

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The Samsung Instinct Mini? No, that won’t do at all. Sprint (NYSE: S) has apparently decided to give their upcoming Instinct Mini a more grown-up model name. The Samsung Instinct Mini will go live as the Sprint Samsung Instinct S30, and it looks like Sprint’s got a Copper Samsung Instinct S30 in the works. Engadget Mobile got their hands on pictures of the Samsung Instinct S30 hanging.....

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The iPhone AppStore’s review system has been criticized since day one. In the beginning, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) allowed anyone with an iTunes account to leave a review of any iPhone application, even if they had never used the app. Harsh reviews, sometimes left by competing developers, dragged down some iPhone applications’ overal rating, while artificially inflating others.....

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I read with interest an interview with Endemol MD Peter Cowley, and his views on Mobile TV. For those of you that don’t know, Endemol have some extremely successful TV properties such as Big Brother, and Deal or No Deal - and in parallel have spent a lot of time and effort previously, feeding their content output over Mobile (both via Operators and independently).

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If you’ve got the means to make it to the San Francisco Moscone Center March 31, why don’t you enter for a chance to win a FREE all-access pass to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco? You’ll get a free pass (valued at $1945) to see the future of the mobile web and what is being done to increase usability and compatibility in that space

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A new MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) is set to start offering its no-contract, unlimited rate plans in the US, using AT&T (NYSE: T)’s network as its surrogate communications backbone. Unified Technologies Group has announced that they will be offering all-you-can-eat wireless service under the “Zer01″ carrier brand.

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New from Etsy seller ‘twoeggplants’ comes a simple hygiene product that every BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) addict will want in their shower. Introducing the ‘Gray BlackBerry PDA Phone Soap’. The bar weighs in a 2 to 2.5 oz and apparently smells like chocolate covered strawberries… Couldn’t they make it smell like, um… BlackBerries?

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The ultra-cool TouchWIZ-enabled Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 slider will be hitting Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK’s portfolio on March 19th, when interested buyers will be able to grab it as the Tocco Ultra Edition.
There are no doubts in my mind the UltraTOUCH S8300 is set to be a hit. It has everything a modern phone user needs, including a powerful......

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Samsung has recently informed the world that their popular all-touchscreen model, TouchWiz F480, has reached an important milestone. The Korean company said that more than 5 million units were sold since the F480’s introduction in May 2008. Best of all, the handset makers still ships 500,000 units each month!

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Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Sprint (NYSE: S) have an announcement today regarding the Pre, and we’re all pretty excited. Maybe a release date? Maybe some new features? And hey, how about the rest of the world - is this thing coming to Canada? As you can see, our main man Will is manning the tweets, and I’ll be liveblogging here on the front page, grabbing screenshots as needed.....

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