Comments on: Palm Pre 2 Coming to Verizon on Feb 17th?
The long-awaited, long-delayed Palm Pre 2 on Verizon may finally be a reality, according to a pair of separate photographs sent in to Engadget this morning. The elusive handset looks to be hitting the market four months after its initial unveiling this past October. After being initially promised "in the coming months", the Pre 2 will be hitting Verizon in the aftermath of the iPhone launch as well as HP's big WebOS event on February 9th.
According to the leaked screenshots and anonymous tipsters, the Pre 2 is set to hit all Verizon channels on February 17th and cost $100 on a two-year contract. This will apparently be the device's out-the-door price tag with no mail-in rebate attached, despite last week's confirmation that Verizon devices ringing in at $150 or less would still carry a mail-in rebate. There is no word on full retail pricing, unfortunately, nor if the previously rumored VZW roadmap still calls for this device's EOL after two short months of availability. Another sign confirming that this may indeed be a real occurrence is that the Pre 2 has been spotted in Verizon's in-house CelleBrite contact info transfer system
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RE: Red Herring?
-Entry-level "free" small touchscreen device (think Moto Citrus or LG Vortex)
-Pre 2 (or future derivatives) w/ physical keyboard & slider design for $100 midrange (competing with BB Bold/Torch, Droid Pro etc)
-Large-screen (4" presumably) 800x480 all touchscreen candybar device to compete with the iPhone and the many Droid versions. I see this as the area where it will be hardest for HP/Palm to differentiate against the competition. Ensuring a stable and fast rollout of WebOS 2.x for ALL existing Palm Pre & Pixi users will also be a tremendous show of goodwill, especially with all of the endless biotching and moaning about Android fragmentation and many handsets being orphaned by their manufacturer before they even hit the market.
Like it or not, HP's best bet at this stage is to target WebOS primarily as a "Friendlier than Android but more flexible than iOS" tablet alternative and push like crazy. The smartphones will basically benefit from trickle-down goodwill and OS improvements. As it currently stands, WebOS is simply NOT small-screen friendly. You'd really need something like a 4.3" smartphone screen to begin to truly do it justice. And to be honest, the hardware Palm threw at it wasn't able to handle it very well at all. The Pre2 is, IMHO, the first handset with enough oomph to "really" handle WebOS. Hopefully HP can optimize the OS and offer stuff like hardware acceleration etc in the process. Again, tablets 1st, smartphones 2nd!
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RE: Red Herring?
My Pre+ runs about the same as a 2, thanks to Preware and the 1ghz (I use 800mhz) kernel. But,the avg user knows nothing @ homebrew options. I feel sorry for anyone who buys a Sprint Pre b/c it looks nice in store, but is not a geek.
Pat Horne
RE: Red Herring?
Dubya911 1 hour ago
Buy one get one free by the 20th, Free bowl of soup and a hat with every purchase by March 1st!
Can HP take on the iPad?
Here come the HP WebOS tablets
Posted by Michal Lev-Ram, contributor
February 7, 2011 12:27 PM
We know HP is looking at WebOS as its competitor to Apple iOS and Google Android. But is HP cool enough to take them on?
This Wednesday Hewlett-Packard is expected to spill the beans on its new line of WebOS tablets. But thanks to leaked photos and specs and a teaser video from the company, we already know a lot about the upcoming devices, reportedly code-named Topaz and Opal.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/07/here-come-the-hp-webos-tablets/
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