After two phones (and two spin-offs) running webOS, you’d think Palm and its new owner HP would be keen to get some new devices to market. All we’ve got to go on for now is a Palm rep’s comments, confirming that they “are working on future devices” and a “new version of the OS”. Apparently, we’re “going to find the next year very exciting”.
I think most of us are in agreement that one of the nicest things about the Palm Pre was its wireless charging Touchstone dock. At $US20, you too can try your hand at modding one for your HTC EVO 4G.
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iPhone OS is on perpetual lockdown. Android hacking’s boring, considering the platform’s Linux credentials. It’s webOS, Palm’s Linux-based OS, where some of the best gratuitous, for-the-hell-of-it hacking is taking place nowadays. Exhibit A: OpenOffice, running on a Pre. A Pre!
Europeans won’t have to wait as long for the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus as they did the original models, according to the documents passed through the Global Certification Forum allowing them entry through Heathrow, Charles De Gaulle and Schiphol.
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Why, what a nice ad this is for Palm’s webOS! Let’s see, you’ve got the clearly communicated feature set, the driving soundtrack and no creepy lady heads talking at you. If only it’d been made by Palm.
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The stock Palm Pre has an adequate but ho-hum 500MHz processor inside with 256MB of RAM. And even the Palm Pre Plus simply doubles the RAM. So how would the Pre run with a much faster processor? Now we know.
Unreal Engine 3? The graphics engine that powers many, many games (Gears of War, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum) on consoles today? Ported on to Palm’s webOS? Neat, but not as neat as you’d think.
When Palm issued a release announcing lowered guidance and sales expectations for this year, Jon Rubinstein didn’t even try to cushion it, admitting, “driving broad consumer adoption of Palm products is taking longer than [he]anticipated”. So, uh, now what?
TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz has an exciting exclusive: Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar learned that Microsoft’s working on a Microsoft-branded phone based on Windows Phone 7 Series OS. It’ll be manufactured by HTC, and software problems postponed its release into 2011.
