Ever since the Apple iPhone came out, there’s been a steady stream of new phones with large touchscreens coming into the market. The latest is the nuvifone from GPS maker Garmin. The nuvifone is around the size of an iPhone. It has a 3.5 inch touch screen, HSDPA support, camera, integrated media player and of course GPS. No other details (including pricing) are available at the moment, but Garmin expects to release the phone in 3Q this year.
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A few years ago, Palm seeked to emulate the success of Apple’s retail stores. Unfortunately, Palm just doesn’t have the strength of the Apple brand, and retail real estate is incredibly expensive. As a part of the ongoing consolidation effort by Palm’s new management, they are going to close down all 34 retail outlets. Eight of these are Palm-branded locations and 26 stores were inside Airport Wireless outposts.
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One of the new features of the recent firmware updates for the Palm Treo 680 smartphone is the ability to use MP3 files as ringtones. As Palm puts it : “MP3 and other sound files purchased from the web or sent from friends can now be set as ringtones and alerts.” The thing is, Palm never really explained how all this works. Fortunately, we now know how to do it.
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Palm has released an update for Versamail to address support for Gmail’s IMAP feature. While Versamail supports IMAP, Gmail apparently addresses IMAP differently enough from other services that it doesn’t work out of the box.
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