April 29 Archive

  • CrunchGear meetup this Thursday in Lexington, Kentucky

    CrunchGear meetup this Thursday in Lexington, Kentucky

    So a funny thing happened to me the other day. I ran a little contest to give away the Time is Money calculator and clock. A guy named Tim won the TIM clock, which was pretty funny. I asked Tim for his mailing address, and he lives in lovely Lexington, KY. Funnily enough, I'm heading there this weekend to visit a friend! So I offered to personally deliver the TIM clock to Tim. And then I thought, hey, let's make it a meetup!

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  • HTC Incredible Full Spec Sheet Leaked

    HTC Incredible Full Spec Sheet Leaked

    Jonesing for a bit more info on the hotter-than-hot HTC Incredible before its April 29 release? Well, you lucky devil, the full spec sheet has been leaked ahead of the Verizon launch, and it looks, well, you know... incredible. On top of the already-known Android 2.1 with HTC's Sense UI, the Snapdragon processor, the 8MP camera with autofocus + flash, and the 3.7" WVGA (800x480) AMOLED screen, there are a few nice surprises.

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  • Palm Pixie is real, but may never materialize

    Palm Pixie is real, but may never materialize

    Lots of excitement today over a second Palm WebOS device now that the Pre has launched. The only problem is that none of this is news. We broke the story about the device, code named Pixie, on April 29. A day later we had the Pixie name and additional details. As far as I can tell there are no additional details coming out now. So I'll supply additional information that we've gathered. Our sources in Asia tell us that Palm continues to push development of the device but is far from making a launch decision. "Palm has decided to put the Pixie on hold until they have better visibility into how its current models are selling in the market." Our guess is that low Pre sales rates make it less likely for the Pixie to hit the market this year. Palm's WebOS is the best mobile operating system in existence, in our humble opinion. But the hardware is, at best, a B.

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