Well, rumor (see, I got the spelling right this time) had it that Palm were going to release the Palm Pre by April 30th. This upcoming Palm unit has been the talk of the mobile device world in the last couple of months and it’s been a case of “who’s getting it? When is it coming out?”.  Here’s the latest from mypre.

Sorry to kill your hopes. It turns out that Palm and Sprint have no plans to launch the Pre on April 30th. It seems our Twitter friend was spreading inaccurate rumors.  First things first; Palm says the launch date is more of a window, with the only thing set in stone is that they will have the phone out by the end of Q2.  More importantly, the 4/30 date didn’t sit with me because it’s a Tuesday. Sprint launches products on Sundays, not Tuesdays. Our Twitter culprit is a fake, thankfully.

So…….while rumor still abounds, it looks like we need to wait for the official press release from Palm and/or Sprint.

Ooooh, here at JAMM, we like a good rumour (sorry, rumor – I’m way tooooo English sometimes). This one dropped into our inbox today.

BGR has it on good authority from one of their ‘ninjas’ that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is working hard to launch a rotating/swiveling QWERTY device on Verizon (NYSE: VZ) for July or August.

You can read the full link here but you know we’ll be on top of it when we get more information

Apparently, Amazon has a new policy regarding their books.  LGBT material is now considered ‘adult’.  So, what does that mean?  Well, first it means that the books will no longer show up in the best seller list, which many people use a tool to figure out what to buy.  Also, it means that this material is no longer searchable, even if you type in the exact name, the book may not appear.  I have been trying to use my calm voice as to not just spew forth my complete and utter rage at this whole situation.  Let’s do a quick translation – when someone says ‘adult’ material, what do you think?  X-rated movies, pin-up magazines, basically porn.  If I understand this correctly, Amazon thinks that material with LGBT content is porn.  Did the Pope buy Amazon and I missed something.  Amazon is acting like a homophobic idiot, clear and simple.  In the last few weeks, we have seen the Iowa Supreme Court say that it is unconstitutional to ban gay marriage, and had the state of Vermont legalize gay marriage.  We are trying to move towards a more tolerant world, and we run into this kind of discrimination.  What right does Amazon have to ‘ban’ material?  They are a store, not a censor.  Why don’t they just burn all the LGBT books?  From CNN, here is a list of books that are considered ‘adult’ LGBT vs. books that are just normal books.

Still in the Ranking System:

• “Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds” by Chronicle Books (pictures of over 600 naked women)
• Rosemary Rogers’ “Sweet Savage Love” (explicit heterosexual romance)
• Kathleen Woodiwiss’ “The Wolf and the Dove” (explicit heterosexual romance)
• Bertrice Smal’s “Skye o’Malley,” (which are all explicit heterosexual romances)
• Alan Moore’s “Lost Girls” (which is a very explicit sexual graphic novel)

No Longer Ranked for Being ‘Adult’ Material:

• Radclyffe Hill’s classic novel about lesbians in Victorian times, The Well of Loneliness, and which contains not one sentence of sexual description;
• Mark R. Probst’s YA novel “The Filly” about a young man in the wild West discovering that he’s gay (gay romance, no sex);
• Charlie Cochrane’s “Lessons in Love” (gay romance with no sex)
• “The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience,” edited by Louis-George Tin (non-fiction, history and social issues)
• “Homophobia: A History” by Bryan Fone (nonfiction, focus on history and the forms prejudice against homosexuality has taken over the years)

I don’t know about you, but I am pretty offended by those adult books.  I am SO glad Amazon saved me from reading those titles.  Needless to say, I am DONE with Amazon.  I am telling all of my friends and family to boycott Amazon.  I look forward to all the protests that are coming from the Human Rights Campaign and others condemning Amazon.  I will also look forward to an apology.

UPDATE:  Amazon is saying that the blacklisting of LGBT material was a glitch in its ratings system.  Is this true or just a PR save?  Well, one author said that his book was re-branded in Feb.  Hmmm…that’s quite a glitch. (via Gizmodo)

If want to see what Amazon had to say to one of its own writers/clients, continue after the break.

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Twitter is slowly taking over the universe as we know it, in the last couple of months it usage has skyrocketed, and with that escalation, the need for better ways to incorporate it in your mobile life have been developed. Not long ago, after using a couple of Twitter apps, I came across another that eclipsed anything I had seen before, Pocket Twit. 

Of course I came across Twikini via a tweet, but don’t get me started, who comes up with these names anyway. Twitter is so hot at the moment that there have been multiple worm attacks over the last couple of days. I fortunately have avoided infection, but many haven’t, the best way to avoid it is with a good client, be that PC/Mac side or even more effective on your mobile/iPhone!

Twikini has popped up at just the right time to be taken advantage of, but of course you want to know how it performs…

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I’m excited. I mean really excited … because there’s A LOT of cool giveaways coming up for you folks. Just Another Mobile Monday has been teamed up with 25 other sites and we’re ALL giving away a brand new never been touched Pantech Matrix Pro for AT&T! For you math majors out there… that’s 26 phones all being awarded over the next month (give or take a few days)! What’s even better is along with a great new phone, we’re all offering up a $100 gift card to use to help pay for your AT&T service! How cool is that?

So we’re perfectly clear – JAMM is not giving away all 26 phones, just one of them. The other 25 sites will have their own giveaway and their own rules – so definitely make sure you check out all the sites and enter as many of the contests as you can. After the break you’ll find a full list of the sites, along with the dates they will be running their giveaway. I recommend you at least take the time to stop by, grab the RSS feed and add it to your reader. While you’re at it check and see if they have a twitter account listed and give them a follow. Who knows how and where they’ll announce the rules…

For those of you who haven’t seen the Matrix Pro yet, I posted a pair of videos HERE, Julie and Judie did a great write up at Gear Diary, and I’ll be posting my review a little later this week. Along with those links, I really want you to stop by and check out the Matrix Pro on its fancy new website – www.pantechmatrixpro.com. They have some good videos on the site, some specs and other details, along with one more thing… a chance to win $25,000!

Finally, in the one more thing category, even if you don’t win one of the giveaways, there’s a special deal from AT&T exclusive to this contest:
Buy an AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro and receive a free Jabra BT4051 Bluetooth headset.

Alright, that’s my pitch. You’ve got a ton of ways to win, a chance at 25 Grand, and even a free headset if you end up buying one. You just can’t go wrong. Hit the jump, check out the list… and keep watching JAMM. I’ll post more details on the contest in the coming days, and we’ll try to keep up with all the other sites so we can post some reminders for ya! GOOD LUCK!

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