Next WebOS smartphone by Palm to be called Palm Eos

Seemingly designed as a successor of the Palm Centro, the rumored next WebOS device by Palm has finally received a name and a face - enter the Palm Eos. At only 10.6mm thickness the QWERTY-equipped handset packs quad-band GSM support and dual-band HSDPA (more or less its US flavor frequencies).
The Palm Eos has a 2.63-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 320 x 400 pixels, 4GB of storage, and a GPS receiver. The final touches on the specs sheet include a 2 megapixel fixed focus camera with a flash, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) and a microUSB port.

The Palm Eos should be announced for AT&T in the US at a price of 350 US dollars before any rebates. And since perhaps we didn't make ourselves clear up until now, the Eos is still a rumored device - though all the information seems rock solid.

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Nokia 5800 Star Trek edition warms up the UK for the movie

As trekkies dust off their costumes and prepare them for the long wait in line for the premiere of J.J. Abrams' reboot, Nokia are offering something to help them accessorize - Nokia 5800 Star Trek edition. It will come preloaded with Trek-related content like a phaser app, which will definitely help fend of people with lightsabre applications.
The Nokia 5800 Star Trek edition will be available in the usual color versions - red, blue and black/silver. Remember now, red uniforms are for tactical/engineering, blue are for science officers and silver… Okay, here our treknoledge betrays us.
Other content that will come preloaded with the Nokia 5800 Star Trek edition includes Trek wallpapers, screensavers and exclusive ringtones including "Phazer Shot", "Red Alert" and "Kelvin Communicator".
Nokia 5800 Star Trek edition will be available in the UK starting May 1st for free with a 25-pounds-a-month contract with either Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile or Orange. It's just in time for the movie, which opens on the 8th of May.
Another interesting 5800-related piece of news today is that the phone will launch with Nokia's Comes With Music service in Brazil. During the first month after the launch, it will be available only through Brazilian operator TIM.
There's heavy accent placed on Brazilian artists with several domestic labels signed up to deliver content. The phone will be offered for 399 Brazil reais (181 US dollars) with an unlimited data plan. Some promotion-related perks offered by TIM include two months of free download of content and free access to the Internet and email.
Nokia 5800 Comes With Music is available in Brazilian stores starting today and everyone who preordered from the online store should get theirs by the end of the week.

iPod Touch Is Apple's Sleeper Hit (AAPL)

Apple (AAPL) blew out expectations for March quarter sales and earnings. The iPhone was especially strong. But Apple's iPod touch -- its most expensive iPod -- is also crushing it, and that's a big reason that Apple will top 1 billion iPhone/iPod touch app downloads in the next day or two.
Apple sold about 3 million iPod touches last quarter. Compared to 3.8 million iPhones shipped, that is pretty excellent.

 

How'd we get that number? During today's earnings call, Apple revealed that it's sold 37 million iPhones and iPod touches to date. But separately, it said it has sold more than 21 million iPhones to date. Last month, Apple said it had sold about 13 million iPod touches through the end of last December. So that's about 3 million from January through March.
This -- combined with the success that PC makers like Acer are having selling cheap "netbook" PCs -- tells us one thing: That Apple could probably be successful selling a larger "iPod touch HD" later this year that fits somewhere between the iPod and the MacBook.