Yagottabe Kidding

Garmin Plans to Launch Android Phone

IOW - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

Weekly Shorts Review: Garmin, TomTom, Nintendo, Palm

Nokia isn't going to pay billions of dollars for Palm.

No one is.

It's WELL past time to put this silliness to rest.

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A few years ago when Palm actually had some pretty good-selling devices, like the Centro and Treos (planned or out), Palm's BoD decided the BEST future for Palm was to sell the company.

And they could not even though they had hundreds of millions in cash, no debt, and said devices. [this is all revealed in Palm's SEC documentation about the original Elevation Partners transaction]

NOW Palm is heavily in debt, has massively more shares outstanding, has Preferred Shares that have priority over common, and have a weak product that apparently didn't even live up to expectations.

And the stock price suggests billions upon billions of dollars to buy it out.

Why does ANYONE reasonably think any company would NOW be insane enough to buy Palm anywhere near the current price if they weren't insane enough to buy it really cheaper a couple years ago?

PALM: Ready to Break Out?

> ...Rubinstein is a brilliant engineer, will he also shine as CEO?...

Though the "brilliant" part is a reach, the rest is something very few have even brought up much less seriously discussed.

Being a SVP in charge of hardware (not software) does not a CEO make.

PALM: Ready to Break Out?

> ...Palm has sold almost 500,000 Pre units in the first month of its launch...

Uh huh.

Don't Close the Line on Nokia Just Yet

Let's try those two Engadget links again:

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Here's Engadget non-mobile, then mobile, for example:

engadget.com

mobile.engadget.com

Sorry about that.

Don't Close the Line on Nokia Just Yet

Admob gathers statistics on MOBILE web site traffic, not regular web site traffic (mobile web sites are those with drastically reduced content - often JUST text, that fit "better" on small phone screens as well as using considerably less data transfer). Here's Engadget non-mobile, then mobile, for example:

www.endgadget.com

mobile.engadget.com/

Furthermore, Admob gathers statistics ONLY for those mobile web sites carrying Admob's ads.

Thus you're talking a small percentage of a small percentage of actual phone web site browsing from which statistics are being gathered.

The iPhone, for example, is known for its good web browsing capability. THAT phone would be visiting NONmobile web sites while a reduced-capability phone like, say, the RAZR would be visiting MOBILE web sites.

So drawing ANY general conclusion about phones from Admob's statistics is simply wrong.

Period.