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Palm Pre Plus Sold Out on Verizon and AT&T’s websites
Aug 16th
We don’t want to get our hopes too high with this one, but it’s certainly worth noting that the Palm Pre Plus is currently sold out on both AT&T’s and Verizon’s websites. While we absolutely want this to be an indicator that new webOS-toting hardware is ready to roll in for these two carriers, we can’t leave out the possibility that both carriers happened to run out of stock at the same time. Plus, while the phone may be sold out online, as far as we know stores are still selling Pres as usual. For now feel free to speculate, but for me, until Sprint follows suit with the older original Palm Pre I’m not convinced.
[Via PreCentral.net]
HP Partners with Vidyo, webOS Video Conferencing to Come?
Jun 16th
With HP’s upcoming acquisition of Palm, the company has been making a few interesting partnerships including its most recent, that with the video conferencing company Vidyo. Now before we start going bonkers thinking about the possible implementations in Palm’s webOS, realize that HP has announced that the first signs of the partnership will show up on its TouchSmart PC. That said, they didn’t leave us completely hanging to guess whether it will find its way onto mobile devices. Darren Podrabsky from HP dropped a little wisdom on the subject of video conferencing on mobile:
No official statements from me, but this is a software-based technology. We’ve talked about the desktop. Think mobile. Think about your phone. HP just acquired Palm. Think about how many legs something like this has. Feel free to speculate.
Lucky for Darren we love to speculate, and to add to the speculation I’d like to highlight the fact that Vidyo has a SDK to bring it’s services to Android, Moblin, and MeeGo, devices so it can be too far of a reach to extend similar functionality to the webOS. Let’s hear it! Who’s ready to do some video chatting on their phone? You know, that or your printer.
webOS Heading to HP Tablet PC’s and Printers?
May 19th
The dust has settled from the HP buyout of Palm, and Palm enthusiasts have been patiently awaiting word on what will happen to their beloved webOS. There was some Twitter chat about possibility of HP using the beleaguered OS on their aging iPaq devices, which to me would be quite interesting to use.
Today, Mark Hurd, CEO of HP released the following statement:
“in order to enhance our intellectual property…in the connected-mobility space. We expect to leverage WebOS into a variety of form factors, including slates and Web-connected printers,”
“With a whole series of Web-connected printers, as they connect to the Web, they need an OS,” he added
HP plans to invest “heavily” into webOS, and focus not only on mobile phones, but also on up-and-coming tablet PCs and printers. To date, the only other operating system showing the potential expansion outside the mobile realm is Android, which itself is growing faster than any other mobile platform. webOS, in my opinion, is an acquired taste for those who aren’t too concerned about apps (though that may change), but more in need of a fast, reliable alternative to iPhone or Android. webOS never gained the mainstream popularity that Palm had hoped for, which in turn, led to their eventual demise and buyout.
But as of late, with HP pushing online connecting printers that have their own apps available for download, could its expansion into peripherals be what webOS needs to really gain momentum? Could it be more popular running on a microwave than the cell phone that it was developed for?
Only time will tell, but kudos to HP for trying to innovate instead of duplicate.
[Via CNET]
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HP Acquires Palm for $1.2 billion
Apr 28th
So this is still new, and likely more info will emerge, but what we know is that HP has purchased Palm for $1.2 billion in change.
Whether there will be a large shakeup within the company as a result (or more than has already been) remains to be seen. Apparently Jon Rubinstein, current Chair and CEO, will remain with the company to run the day-to-day business.
“We’re thrilled by HP’s vote of confidence in Palm’s technological leadership, which delivered Palm webOS and iconic products such as the Palm Pre. HP’s longstanding culture of innovation, scale and global operating resources make it the perfect partner to rapidly accelerate the growth of webOS,” said Jon Rubinstein, chairman and chief executive officer, Palm. “We look forward to working with HP to continue to deliver industry-leading mobile experiences to our customers and business partners.”
More info to come…
(source Yahoo News)
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