IDC forecasts that worldwide shipments of smartphones, will surpass 390 million units, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.9% for the 2009–2013 period. In a market that was once dominated by a handful of pioneers, such as BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile, newcomers touting open standards and intuitive design and navigation have garnered strong end-user and handset vendor interest.

Palm Developer Network Blog has recently stated that the official Mojo SDK would be delayed to at least end of summer. Some effort would however be put on the early access program for those who really want to access it as soon as possible.

Before fall 2009, Nokia will release n900, 3rd generation of "Internet Tablet" (previous ones where 770 and n8x0) ... Major features are : 3G Support (WiFi / WiMax only for previous ons) , GPS, accelerometer

Palm was very shy since they announced the Pré and the phone itself could only be seen by some happy few at Mobile World Congress. Anyway, here is a small video to demystify the product and demo a couple of applications.

O'Reilly and Palm are presenting today a webinar about Palm WebOS development. In this one hour online event, Mitch Allen, Palm's Software CTO and a member of the Palm webOS(tm) design team, will recap the material included in the introductory chapter of "Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo(tm) Framework,"

One of the most important mobile event is taking place in Spain now , the world mobile congress.... But as you expected, Linux has also its place ...

The new palm pré was presented at Palm Press Conference for CES 2009. This phone is the first device running the new operating system : Palm Web OS

Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) today announced that Elevation Partners has agreed to make an additional $100 million equity investment in Palm. This should allow Palm to continue the development of its products for 2009.

Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. In addition, of all mobile device sales, smartphones' share remained stable at 11 percent. Symbian OS is still far ahead of competition but looses almost 9% market share.