Filed under: Software, Palm

What’s better than a Skype client for Palm? A VoIP client compatible with any SIP provider, that’s what. Hampton Software has released Articulation, which appears to be the first true provider-independent client for any Palm 5.x device with a mic and speaker (though rumor has it the 700p doesn’t quite make the grade yet due to sound issues). The app may not have superstar looks, but the feature list is nothing to sneeze at with support for the GSM codec on low-bandwidth connections, echo cancellation for speakerphone use, touch tones for automated menus, and pretty much anything you could expect from a lightweight VoIP setup. If anyone gives this a whirl on their 650, be sure to hit us all up with the rundown in comments!

[Via VoIP & Gadgets Blog]

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Filed under: Handsets, Others, Palm OS, GSM, GPRS

It weirds us out a bit these days to see a Palm OS smartphone that doesn’t share the classic Treo look, but sure enough, Group Sense PDA is back at it with another Palm OS 5.4-based handset, the Xplore M70. We’re guessing we’re not going to see it in these parts any time soon — the QWERTY-less device sports Chinese input and lacks GSM 850 — but for the good folks that get a crack at buying one, you can expect a 220 x 176 display, 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, good ol’ fashioned SD expansion, and “exciting Palm games.” Data tops out at Class 10 GPRS, but you know, with those exciting Palm games, you may just forget to download your email anyway.

[Via TamsPalm]

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Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Cingular, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Dear Palm,

Why is it that you have such a devil of a time keeping a lid on your product pipeline? It seems like in those precious few moments when your carriers aren’t leaking documents describing unreleased Treos, you’re doing it yourself. No bother; we already knew darned well Cingular would be getting a pair of new handsets from you, freshly freed of their pesky external antennas, in Palm OS and Windows Mobile flavors — we just wish you’d make it a little more challenging to scoop the deets sometimes. Anyway, you’ve got a crowd of Palm fanatics anxiously awaiting your 680 and 750 here in the US, so let’s get this show on the road, shall we?

Love,
Engadget

[Thanks, William and Jon]

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Filed under: Software, Palm, Misc

Yes, the name “PalmSource” is going away; of course, we all knew that PalmSource’s days as a corporate identity were numbered when Japan’s ACCESS scooped up the former Palm subsidiary last year, so let us concentrate not on the death of one logo, but on the birth of another. Simultaneous with the rebranding, ACCESS has retooled its corporate logo (pictured bottom), apparently “signifying the Company’s evolution as a global corporation.” Ultimately, be they PalmSource, ACCESS, Be, or anything else, all we really care about is seeing that Linux goodness find its way into some devices we can actually buy, so how about y’all spend less time on your branding initiatives and more time heads-down in the code, mkay?

[Via Brighthand]

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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Palm, Cingular, Palm OS, Symbian

After initially announcing availability on a handful of devices last month, Cingular and TeleNav are expanding their partnership by bringing navigation to the recently-launched Nokia E62 (and, oh yeah, the Treo 680, too — though there’s no specific mention of Big Orange involvement on that one). The software package rings in at $6/month for 10 trips and $10/month for unlimited use, offering all the same navigational features that you’d find on TeleNav’s previous Cingular offerings — the 8125 / 8525, Treo 650, and HP hw6925 — with a couple of added bonuses on the E62: the new “fuzzy search” feature, as the name implies, completes user entries based on predictive logic and previous searches, while 3D maps also make an appearance for the first time. Sorry, 680 users… maybe next version.

[Via Slashgear]

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