HP Exec Promises "Great Things" for webOS
HP's Rahul Sood has become something of a WebOS + "cool stuff" evangelist as of late, vocally and enthusiastically promoting the pending fruits from the collaborative efforts between HP and Palm. In his latest personal blog post, "This is not a test...", he clarifies the skewed speculation regarding some of his recent palm hyping Tweets and, most interestingly, reveals a few possible tidbits about the time line we are facing for new WebOS-powered hardware.
In short, Mr. Sood promises a variety of new hardware and form-factors over the next twelve months, some coming sooner than others. He asserts that HP & Palm's window of opportunity has not closed and they can easily retake lost ground with enough quality product and innovations. He states that even the WebOS defectors, many likely jumping ship to Android and iOS after the one-year release of the original Sprint Pre, "…will be back once they see the breadth of product coming out of HP in the future."
He concludes his rather lengthy blog post with a summary of his most pertinent points:
Once again I will summarize what I said above;
HP Palm is working on both smartphones and other web-connected devices.
HP Palm is committed to delivering webOS on a wide range of devices.
I don't believe the "window of opportunity" ever really closes in this business. As long as there's innovation, there's always a window in.
If you're a developer, why not take a day to port your game over to Palm for some additional gravy and a chance to win some big cash?
Verizon & AT&T 1.4.5 FTW!
Until a press release is issued, we can't talk about it.
Stay tuned, and thanks for the patience and support...and thanks for keeping the candle lit!
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RE: falling even further behind
yes - because HP and Palm are both known for releasing "game changing hardware". why would that change now?
look at all of the cutting edge killer innovative Palm and HP smartphones that are on the market now. i think you can expect more of the same.
and 1 + 1 = 9.
just keep the faith - "great things are coming" just you wait and see.
good night, Reverend.
RE: falling even further behind
Eejit! And i thought you were in Finance. Any damned banker will tell you that 1+1 = 11!
RE: falling even further behind
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RE: falling even further behind
Tut, tut, tut!
Any investment banker will tell you that 1+1=
4 for me
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-2 for the tax payer
RE: falling even further behind
RE: falling even further behind
comforted
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RE: PalmInfoCenter being listed as 'Attack Site' in Google & Firefox
I am no longer using the affected component and there is no malware on the site that I am aware of. I am still not certain what the exploit did when it was active but this is a known issue/attack going around.
I have sent a request into Google to clear out the warning but I am unsure how long this will take.
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RE: PalmInfoCenter being listed as 'Attack Site' in Google & Firefox
Have a nice day!
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->Pilot Pro->IIIe->IIIc->M500->M505->M515->TC->T3->T5->Treo 650P->Treo 700P->Droid>Pre Plus
I can't wait any longer
RE: I can't wait any longer
RE: I can't wait any longer
PIM on iPhone is pretty good. Not quite the Zen of Palm but not far off. Using Calengoo to sync with Google calendar and tasks works great, has pretty useful views on iPhone, and having the information accessible from any computer is handy too. If you need more functionality for tasks, Toodledo is a great application.
I do miss the hardware keyboard though, my thumbs are all thumbs on the on screen keyboard.
Mike
windows of opportunity
RE: I can't wait any longer
falling even further behind
this blog very nice keep it up wanna
david miller
whats on in Sydney
RE: Windows of Opportunity
If the BB Playbook does everything BB says it can, then BB has a real winner.... Looks like the best of webOS and iOS, mashed up to create their new UI... with webOS like card view system for multitasking. I'm surprised mikecane hasn't been gushing over this...
RE: Windows of Opportunity
no actual hardware was demonstrated - the commercial was not showing actual screenshots - just cgi effects shots.
Three big questions: battery life, price, and actual availability.
for something to be released in "early 2011" I'm a bit surprised.
HP webos sales target
http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2010/09/28/hp-we-will-sell-15-million-webos-printers/
RE: HP webos sales target
http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-stock-tanks-after-appointing-no-name-ceo-2010-9
RE: 17 days and no new posts
Have a nice day!
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->Pilot Pro->IIIe->IIIc->M500->M505->M515->TC->T3->T5->Treo 650P->Treo 700P->Droid>Pre Plus
dead platform
dead platform. what do you expect?
did you see the creep HP hired? he makes MikeCon look normal.
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RE: 17 days and no new posts
And of course there haven't been any posts. What's there to post about?!
I pop in every day, see no new Comments -- or ones worth replying to -- and pop out again, silently.
RE: 17 days and no new posts
waiting.....and watching....
RE: 17 days and no new posts
Its NOT that the platform is dead, its just that this site is dead.
What Palm enthusiast wants to start a discussion only to be greeted with...
"it's too late for Palm..."
"Palm is in a death spiral..."
"final nail in the Palm coffin..."
"everyone has moved on and so should you..."
Blah, blah, blah...
Its no fun here. Go to Pre|Central where there is lively discussion on the forums daily, hundreds of posts worth, and fresh news gets added multiple times a week. They report on the many new apps in the catalog and the tons of development being done by the homebrew community. For a dead platform there sure is a lot of action over there. It just goes to show you how well the WebOS community can thrive if not being shouted down everyday. Its a great place if you actually want to USE your PalmPre and get things done... grand standing "would be prophets" need not apply.
Sad 'cause PIC used to be my favorite site.
oh well!
Eric
RE: 17 days and no new posts
fun? you want fun? sorry that i'm not telling you want you want to hear. you want fantasy but i only have reality. Precentral is filled with a bunch of lowlife kool aid drinking bottom feeder bible thumpers so i bet you fit in just great.
RE: 17 days and no new posts
RE: 17 days and no new posts
it's a dead platform, pal. forget the horse & buggy. it's not coming back!
RE: 17 days and no new posts
I scour all of the usual sites on a weekly (sometimes more often) for ANY and ALL Palm OS news. Sad to say, it's 99% dead these days. No app updates, nothing new other than the occasional piece of total junkware from PalmGear. And there's certainly no new hardware or accessories coming out save for the PDA32. And nearly all of the longtime Palm OS stalwarts such as SplashData, Dataviz, Kinoma, Normsoft, Handmark, Astraware have either closed up shop, stopped supporting/updating their Palm OS stuff. Some sites have removed all of their old Palm OS stuff completely!
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but that's just how it is nowadays.
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Centros also make great little PDAs without a data plan.
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RE: Centros on Boost Mobile
RE: Centros on Boost Mobile
IMHO, the Kyocera Zio is the frontrunner for desirable prepaid Android devices. However, I have to say that seeing all of the small but near-constant data usage that goes on in the background with Android, I'd have to be paying per Mb for my data usage. If I was using a pre-paid Android device, I'd definitely probably keep as much as possible turned off and use it with wi-fi whenever possible. My data usage with a Droid 1 has been hovering around 2.5GB each month and in the one month I've had my Droid X, it's around 3Gb, primarily due to do Pandora/Slacker/YouTube streaming when in the car.
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