Just one day after Amazon dropped the price of the popular Palm Pre smartphone to $100 USD, Wal-Mart has begun selling the phone for $80 USD with two-year contract with exclusive carrier Sprint.
The phone has a 3.1-inch touchscreen with 480×320 resolution and a slider design which hides a full QWERTY keyboard. More notably, the phone uses Palm’s own WebOS Linux-based operating system, which offers multitasking for applications and “Synergy” for contacts integration.
$80 is the cheapest the phone has ever sold for, and will likely help boost sales headed into the holiday season.
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Just one day after Amazon dropped the price of the popular Palm Pre smartphone to $100 USD, Wal-Mart has begun selling the phone for $80 USD with two-year contract with exclusive carrier Sprint.
The phone has a 3.1-inch touchscreen with 480×320 resolution and a slider design which hides a full QWERTY keyboard. More notably, the phone uses Palm’s own WebOS Linux-based operating system, which offers multitasking for applications and “Synergy” for contacts integration.
$80 is the cheapest the phone has ever sold for, and will likely help boost sales headed into the holiday season.
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LG Electronics has announced the launch of their first ever Android-based mobile phone, the LG-GW620.
The LG-GW620 has a 3-inch touchscreen and a full slider QWERTY keyboard. The camera is 5MP but otherwise, details were scarce.
“The LG-GW620 will appeal to first-time smartphone customers by offering a new and different kind of user experience,” adds Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company via the press release. “Our objective is to provide a wide selection of smartphones to satisfy the diverse preferences of today’s consumers. This Android phone is just one of many smartphone models we plan to introduce worldwide in the years ahead.”
Interestingly, the press release spoke more about LG’s upcoming Windows Mobile-based smartphones, which will use 6.5 and should be out before the end of the year.
The LG-GW620 will hit the EU in the Q4, with no US date set.
