A company called KubeSail is introducing a compact network-attached storage device called the PiBox 2 mini which, as the name suggests, is powered by Raspberry Pi hardware. Up for pre-order through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for $250 and up with an expected ship date of March, 2022, it’s designed to work with up to two […]
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Lilbits: Amazon the knockoff artist, Dell’s rugged laptops, new OnePlus and Black Shark phones
For years critics have claimed that Amazon rips off the companies that sell their products through its online store by using data to determine which items are likely to be popular and then creating and selling their own knockoffs, undercutting the competition on price and by promoting its own products. Now a report from Reuters […]
LG will license webOS for use on third-party smart TVs (It’s come a long way from the Palm days)
WebOS is an operating system that was originally developed by Palm for smartphones, acquired by HP for use on tablets as well as phones, and when that turned out to be a flop, HP sold its webOS assets to LG, which uses it for smart TVs and other smart home products. Now LG plans to […]
Palm’s tiny smartphone now available carrier unlocked (for $350)
At a time when smartphone displays seem to keep getting bigger, the Palm has a distinctly old-school feel thanks to its 3.3 inch screen (and Palm branding). First sold as a companion device for Verizon customers when it launched last year, the idea was that you could add your existing phone number to a Palm […]
Now you can by Palm’s tiny smartphone as a standalone device for $199
Last year Palm re-entered the smartphone space. Sort of. A California-based startup got the rights to use the Palm name and revived the Palm brand last year by launching a tiny smartphone with a 3.3 inch display, mid-range specs, and Android 8.1 software with a custom user interface. But the Palm phone was initially sold […]
Palm’s new phone goes on sale next week (Verizon only)
The Palm is a smartphone with a 3.3 inch, 720p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and a $350 price tag. It’s the first Palm-branded smartphone to be announced since 2010, but this isn’t the same Palm that brought us PalmOS and webOS. The new Palm smartphone runs Google […]
The latest Palm phone has a 3.3 inch screen, $350 price tag
Palm is back… but not really. In November you’ll be able to buy a new smartphone called the Palm, and it’s designed to evoke some nostalgia for an era of smartphones past. But it’s not the Palm you knew. The Palm features a small screen in an age of big-screened smartphones, and it’ll sell for […]
TCL may be taking the Palm name literally: 3.3 inch Palm smartphone leaked
It’s 2018 and smartphones with 6.4 inch displays don’t really seem all that strange anymore. So how do you make a device that stands out? Give it a tiny screen… or something. That seems to be the approach Chinese device maker TCL is planning to take with a new Palm-branded smartphone expected to launch sometime […]
Report: TCL and Verizon to launch a new Palm smartphone (whatever that means)
Chinese electronics giant TCL is probably best known in the US for making televisions. But the company also sells phones under the Alcatel and BlackBerry brands. In fact, most recent phones sold under the BlackBerry name are actually manufactured by TCL. The company produces the hardware and BlackBerry licenses the name along with the BlackBerry […]
LG releases webOS Open Source Edition, looks to expand webOS usage
LG’s smart TVs ship with an operating system called webOS, which is the latest version of an operating system that was developed by Palm to run on phones, acquired by HP to use with tablets, and eventually sold to LG, which is still using it today. But now LG wants to expand the adoption of […]