HP finalizes Palm acquisition

By on Jul 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM
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Today, HP announced that it has officially completed the acquisition of Palm. The former Palm business unit will continue with webOS development under the leadership of Jon Rubenstein who will report directly to Todd Bradley, the executive vice president of HP’s Personal Systems Group. Look for the new HP/Palm to further develop its webOS smartphone lineup as well as extend the mobile platform to slate PCs and netbooks. Anyone excited for the future of webOS now that it has some big guns behind it?

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  • MikeD

    This is a good thing. Trust me.

  • Ben

    yea can’t wait. WebOS is clearly one of the most powerful OS’s out there just needs some killer hardware

  • BP

    Cant wait for new webos device.. Prediction: Verizon 4G / LTE device to be new WebOS phone available for purchase on black friday

    • I told you so.com

      nope, Verizon has too much plus, and pixi overstock they didnt even buy any more last quarter. As well as they are only interested in Android, so you can only hope Hpalm releases something to them ever, exspecially how Verizon treated Palm. So far Sprint, AT&T are the rumors.

      • BP

        We will see…

  • Sheed

    It’s GIANT jpeg day!

    • http://www.bgr.com/ Michael Bettiol

      Fixed. :)

      • Sheed

        Haha, no big deal, I liked it.

  • I told you so.com

    here you go people inside information:

    HP/Palm C40

    http://ozcarguide.com/technology/cellphone-pda/3440-hp-palm-c40-webos-snapdragon

    (pictures just a mock up not the actullay device)

    full specs:

    3.8″ IPS Capacitive Touch Screen
    Cortex A9 1.0-1.2Ghz
    512MB RAM
    OMAP4430 – POWERVR SGX540 Graphics
    16GB – 32GB Internal Memory
    Improved Vertical keyboard – Larger Buttons, better design
    No MicroSD Slot.
    Gesture Area
    1550 MaH Battery
    WebOS 1.5 will introduce a horizontal virtual keyboard.
    4G will be optional, but it will have the modem present.
    This phone will be announced shortly before the closing deal with HP. Early July, For Sprint.

  • I told you so.com

    also for those that dont know, the palm pre and pre plus can be clocked to 1ghz now with the F105 thunder kernal. Easy to do through preware go to precentral.net forums to get the info. Test shows its faster then the EVO in some browser sites, and applications. Also battery life has been improved with the kernal, as well as the TMC error has been relieved with the compache script thats imbeded into the kernal. There is also a kernal for the PIXI, and PIXI Plus Enjoy for now, until the C40 and tablet is released.

  • Bugs

    Hell ya! Bring on some 4G WebOS handsets and tablets.

  • JayMonster

    I am excited only as far as tablets go. The Pre was disappointing hardware & the opaque hasn’t had good hardware since HP acquired it, so phone wise I am not expecting any better. BUT, the Slate HP showed off at CES running WebOS could be killer! By all appearances the WebOS looks ready to be ported to such a device NOW whereas Android needs some tweaks to jump to a tablet.

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id/ thea

    no big deal

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