Usually when we hear the phrase “contract-free developer phone” the words “unlocked” and “GSM” follow shortly thereafter, but apparently Palm didn’t get the memo — it just announced discounted hardware prices for its devices, but they’re carrier-locked to Verizon and Sprint. Yeah, that’s a big sad face out of us — it’s not…

Likely a direct counterstrike to Verizon’s $79.99 Pixi Plus , Sprint has dropped the retail price of its original WiFi-less Pixi all the way down to $49.99 after $100 mail-in rebate on a new two-year contract. As you might recall, the Pixi debuted at $100, but now that the …

Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman just pulled off a little surprise here at The Engadget Show: he brought out LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! The QWERTY slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world’s ever seen, and while the hardware and software are both obviously early, we can tell you…

The life of a gadget lover tends to involve a lot of waiting , so it’s always nice to be surprised by a roadmap getting shorter rather than longer. Sprint has told Forbes that its very first WiMAX phone will be arriving in the first half of this year, which will…

We’ve seen our fair share of unattractive leak photos in our day — Mr. Blurrycam is an extraordinarily busy, well-traveled individual, after all — but this might very well take the cake. What we see here is allegedly the first live shot of HTC’s killer Supersonic for Sprint, a phone that we’ve heard would feature HD…

It’s been a white hot minute since we’ve seen a snazzy new timepiece from the labs at Timex , but it seems that the outfit will finally be dishing out a new GPS-laden watch a year after introducing the Expedition WS4 . Set to debut next month, the Ironman Global Trainer with …

Hoping to raise money for the Haiti earthquake relief effort , Bono, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, and Coldplay and somewhere around 100 other stars will entertain viewers on both the web and traditional TV tomorrow night at 8pm ET in a benefit called Help Haiti Now: A Global …

Sprint customers: If you’re worried that you bought a first gen Palm Pre only to watch helplessly as Palm released a better Pre on Verizon, stop. The Palm Pre Plus is essentially the same phone as the Palm Pre. Sure, there are minor hardware differences—most notably the doubling of the …

We had a chance to sit down with representatives from Skiff and Sprint to get a first-hand look at the new Skiff Reader , and came away suitably impressed. In an increasingly crowded eReader market, Skiff distinguishes itself by taking a more platform-oriented approach than a device-specific one. With a large, 11.5-inch…

You may have soaked up every tiny little bit of CES news on http://engadget.com yesterday, but one thing you HAVEN’T done is listened to some of the world’s preeminent technology journalists chat about what they REALLY thought of the day under the influence of three XXL trays of eggs …