Verizon Wireless Pre 3, touchscreen-only webOS smartphone leak

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Enthusiast blog PreCentral has revealed images of two of HP’s latest smartphones, including one unannounced device that would be the first webOS phone without a hardware QWERTY keyboard. There’s little in the way of known specs about this touchscreen-only phone β€” possibly codenamed “Stingray” β€” but it does appear that the screen is in the 3.2-inch to 4-inch range, although it’s hard to tell based on the angle of the picture. There also appears to be a front-facing camera on the device, and that would also be a first for HP. The Palm Pre 3 was announced in February β€” and we’ve already gotten our hands on one β€” but a new image shows it running on Verizon’s CDMA network. Verizon Wireless hasn’t specifically said whether or not it will carry the Pre 3, but it did offer the first two iterations so we’re keeping our fingers crossed that we’ll see this one soon. Hit the jump for the Pre 3 photo.

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18 Comments
  • i told u so.com

    ok first for the BGR people who dont read comments on the precentral insider the slab device as stated is bigger then the Pre 3, so its not between 3.2 and 4 inchs. It has to be atleast 3.7 inchs period. Second the Pre 3 has a front facing cam on it, so no its not the first time HP will be having a front facing cam. SMH bad update on the best OS on the market, but its what I expect since everyone are puppets for Android, and IOS the worst OS’s out the bunch just the more popular at this point.

    • Intomobile

      Ur a little whinny baby.

    • Anonymous

      “…so its not between 3.2 and 4 inchs”

      3.2 < 3.7 < 4.0

      yes it is

    • Anonymous

      Also, Verizon did not carry the first two iterations, necessarily. There are three iterations of Pre before the Pre 3, they are of course Pre, Pre Plus, and Pre 2. VZW did/does/has carry/carried two iterations though, the Pre Plus and Pre 2.

  • http://www.techno-update.com techno-update

    Bet it will be popular, seen lots of the other pres where I live.

    • Dragon

      I have been extremely impressed with the WebOS platform. In fact, the only OS I’m anticipating to be better is the QNX powered offering from BlackBerry, which appears to be sort of a WebOS clone tbh. If this phone lands as a 4 inch high res screen running LTE, I may get it.

      • Anonymous

        RIM’s QNX-based OS is indeed a poor clone of webOS.

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    Nice hardware. If only it had a real OS with widgets like the Droid OS that is open and free.

    • robnhl

      Widgets do not a real OS make. Try using webOS 2.1 with card stacking and then talk to me about widgets. Completely changes (for the better) many experiences you use your phone for, especially Twitter. Throw Exhibition mode into the loop and webOS 2+ offers a fantastic, unique experience.

      • Scott

        WebOs is the bomb!! I wish my iPhone had webos on it.

      • Dejan Jancevski

        While I am an admitted iDEN fanboy (esp. b/c of the PTT), I have to say that I did like the webOS by Palm. Now that there is webOS witha Palm Pre 3…I will say that if HP made it so that the phone had iDEN PTT on it (along with WiMAX or LTE), I’d jump at dropping my current iDEN phone in a heartbeat!

  • Anonymous

    It’s going to be humorous to read how ex-Palm guys (now HP guys) are going to explain away the lack of a physical keyboard when that was THE thing about the Palm line.

    Oh! I know! They can say they’re HP now and simply ignore that little factoid.

    Differentiation anyone?

    • Anonymous

      Have you tried using a palm pre? The physical keyboard isn’t exactly it’s trump card. I know they tried to market the keyboard as one of their selling points, but the keyboard sucks.

      There were homebrew hacks specifically for an onscreen keyboard, which wasn’t exactly anything to write home about either. IMO, webOS provides hands down the best user experience. Too bad there is a tiny application ecosystem. Go try out a webOS device if you haven’t and you might come away impressed. All touch is just one step in the evolution of webOS,

    • serpentor

      I don’t see why they have to explain away anything. Hard KBs were the only practical way to go back in the day. Technology evolves.

      And I think putting out a touchscreen only phone is less sacrilegious than putting out a Palm device with Winmo instead of Palm OS, which they did.

  • http://twitter.com/BrSwa Brandon

    Please be a 4″ screen…

  • Anonymous

    Why cant they go for the gusto and put it on a 4.3″ screen..keyboard or no keyboard?

  • reekfish

    I really would like to own a web os device, but if there is no LTE offering this summer i won’t purchase one. Why are we only seeing droid based LTE handsets? No ammount of features can make up for how LTE blows 3g speeds out of the water, and my next handset will be LTE capable first, then I’ll decide who’s phone i want.

  • Anonymous

    Going to be so many choices for phones running different operating systems, you have apple on verizon now. You have a lot of android phones and blackberries out there, more windows 7 phones and now palm pre’s coming out. I wonder how ordinary consumers will pick out their new device.

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