German carrier O2 just revealed the price tags of their latest Palm gadgets: the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus. Distribution will start April 28th, 2010. Pre Plus: 509€ (or 29€ as down payment and 24mth x 20€) Pixi Plus: 389€ (or 29€ as down payment and 24mth x 15€) Both devices come [...]
[Pre] Prices For German Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Revealed
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
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[Palm] Pre Plus and Pixi Plus in Germany End of April
April 19th, 2010 · No Comments
German Palm.de site reports that the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus are going to be released in Germany on April 28th, 2010. The exclusive partnership between Palm and O2 in Germany is over, Vodafone is going to offer the Palms aswell. There is currently no information available about pricing. Read more on investor.palm.com…
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[Pre] Palm Pre’s Slider Oreo Issues
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Forum reports seem to be growing about this issue. A certain amount of first generation Palm Pre’s being sold all over the world seem to have slider issues. “It just wobbles too much, thus making it feel like a 500€ plastic toy.”, said a customer in a local O2 store. Our testing device received from [...]
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[Pre] WebOS 1.3.5.2 Released in Europe
January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Telefonica (O2/MoviStar) has approved Palm’s latest update. We expect they found some bugs that are on the american 1.3.5.1. The update will be installed automatically over the air. The 15 MB update brings Tethering via Bluetooth and 3D graphics acceleration to European Palm Pre’s, thus allowing us eventually to play Doom, Quake and Need For [...]
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[misc] Web Empfang von MMS mit Alice / Hansenet
December 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Wir alle kennen die Situation. Ein Freund sendet uns eine MMS und wir erhalten eine SMS stattdessen, obgleich unser Telefon MMS fähig ist. Warum eigentlich? Nun das ist sehr einfach: sofern man selbst keine MMS bislang versendet hat, geht der Provider davon aus, dass man kein MMS fähiges Mobiltelefon besitzt. Das ist einerseits ein guter [...]
[Pre] Re-Enable Full App Catalog in Europe
November 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments
The European Update 1.3.1 On Monday European Palm Pre users were just happy to eventually have the 1.3.1 update that has already been provided to U.S. customers two weeks earlier. Sadly the smiling in our faces didn’t last long. European customers rapidly found out that their App Catalog had been crippled. PreCentral explains why this [...]
[Pre] Update 1.3.1 for GSM to be Released Nov 23, 2009 ?
November 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
According to a posting to the german Nexave forums the european Palm Pre 1.3.1 update (for GSM phones) will be released on monday November 23, 2009. The update does not seem to include activation of the GPU. We recommend to remove custom installed homebrew patches. Features: Synergy: – Calendar and Contacts synchronization with Yahoo! LinkedIn [...]
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[Pre] WebOS Update 1.3.1 Coming End of November
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Palminfocenter is reporting that webOS 1.3.1 is coming to european Palm Pre’s by the end of november. They say they gotten this news from UK O2′s reps. Palm did not comment on this, though. » PalmInfoCenter.com: webOS 1.3 in Europe by end of november…
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[iPhone] O2 Unlocking UK Customers’ iPhones
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments
The competition in the UK seems to be getting hard around the jesus phone. Orange just released the iPhone 3GS for their network. O2 seems to be feeling they needed to come up with something that mostly only the iPhone Dev Team or GeoHot could provide: an unlock. The unlock is offered under the following [...]
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[Pre] UK’s O2 Palm Pre Unlocked using RebelSIM?
November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A video appeared showing that SIM locked Palm Pre’s from the UK seems to have been unlocked using a proxy SIM solution called RebelSIM. There is no further detailed information about if this is a safe unlock like with the proxy SIMs for the first gen iPhones or i RebelSIM cards use IMSI fake IDs. [...]
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[Pre] Rumors about SIM Unlock for EU GSM Version
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments
As of now the only factory unlocked Palm Pre’s are being sold here in Germany. German Palm Pre’s are of course being sold with a germany QWERTZ keyboard. Anyway some international customers prefer the international QWERTY keyboard. Now rumors in spanish forums have surfaced that the spanish GSM based Palm Pre sold by and locked [...]
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[Pre] Palm Pre Release Date for Germany
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments
October 13th will be the day many people have been waiting for. The official iPhone competitor by Palm will be released in Germany. The Pre will be exclusively available from O2 Germany. According to their latest information the Palm Pre will also be available without subscription for about 480€ (=700US$). There is currently no information [...]
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[Pre] Palm Pre Goes Europe
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments
There have been rumors in the last weeks which carrier which offer the Palm Pre in European countries. As of today we know the rumors were true. In Germany, Great Britain, Ireland O2 will be the exclusive distributor of Palm’s new flagship, in Spain the iPhone competitor will be offered by Movistar. As of now [...]
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[iPhone] HowTo Make MMS Work on iPhone 2G
July 5th, 2009 · 44 Comments
NOTE: This walkthrough is for iPhone OS 3.0 only! For MMS on iPhone 2G with firmware 3.1, buy SwirlyMMS on Cydia Store I. Abstract Many iPhone 2G users are not very amused about Apple’s update policy. As of iPhone OS 3.0, owners can eventually use MMS on their iPhones. All owners? No, not the ones [...]

