Pre Central reports on an interesting tip that has come in from an anonymous tipster concerning Palm’s next smartphone, codenamed “Mansion”. Whether this Mansion has many rooms, apparently none of them will be locked—because unlike the Pre, this device will not have any keys—making it the first Palm device without a hardware keypad since the company phased out the last of its original line of PDAs. Certainly, leaving out a keyboard might be a good way to lower the price on the already inexpensive Pre line. And Palm is no stranger to making devices without hardware keyboards,...

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Fifteen years ago, the device that singlehandedly created the PDA market, and also probably did the most to start the e-book ball rolling, was the humble Palm Pilot. It was truly a marvel for its time—which is why it is so sad to see Palm floundering today, an also-ran in the smartphone market behind Apple and Android-powered devices. Palm’s stock prices hit a 52-week low on Friday after a lackluster earnings announcement, and analysts have downgraded their opinion of the stock to “sell”—with two analysts even lowering their price target to $0 (meaning that they think Palm’s stock prices will...

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