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HP ready to licence WebOS, is "the Palm OS" set to repeat history?

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Follow through the chain of thought here. HP buy up a promising mobile operating system from a small company with "Palm" in their name. They get ready to use it in a device or two, but are also ready to licence it to other manufacturers. Other handset manufacturers think this is nice, but would rather HP don’t know what they had planned for a new product (eg Samsung. Speculation but does that sounds a fun idea?). So HP set up a chinese wall between the WebOS software engineers and the WebOS hardware engineers. Which becomes two separate departments. Which work

This Is An Ex-Operating System

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PalmOS is dead. That’s Ed Colligan’s assertion, and given he’s Da Man at Palm, I think we can call that case closed (yes Centro’s will still be sold, but no new models. From here on in you can go Windows Mobile or webOS – so make sure you hold the shift key down on the right letters. To be honest this doesn’t surprise me. If handspring had bit the bullet when it was formed all those years ago and started with a blank page rather than licence PalmOS back from 3com, they wouldn’t have hit the dead end they did

Not Your Father’s Palm – Impressions of the Palm Pre

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So at CES today, Palm unveiled their new phone, the Palm Pre. This is a tough time for Palm, they’ve not had luck with their recent devices and software. The assumption is that this device had to hit it out of the park for Palm to survive the recession. Form the initial looks, I think it’s going to struggle. There’s nothing especially new in the smartphone space here. The screen is 320×480 in portrait mode; it’s running on EV-DO for data 9so it’s effectively US only), it has a multi-touch screen that has support for ‘gestures’; a Qwerty keyboard slides