HP, Palm, and webOS are dead ducks, yes, I just said what most are afraid to utter, webOS will never get a sizable piece of the pie in the mobile market.
Ranting aside, a leaked image of what appears to be the next generation Pre, was posted by Pre Central recently, and it doesn't look half bad. The handset seems to be sporting a 4-inch screen and lacks a slide-out QWERTY keyboard which differentiates the device from all other Pre handsets before it.
Despite all the fragmentation, Android is racing ahead of the competitions like a donkey on wheels smoking a pipe. Android is now the number one smartphone platform in the US, and right now, there is nothing the competition can do about it.
In the year 2010, Android only accounted for 7% of the smartphone market in the US, BlackBerry sat on 42%, so how the hell did RIM managed to let the BlackBerry lose over 11% market share in just one year? It's like everyone at RIM are dreaming, or just sat on their asses watching Two And A Half Men all day. Not only did Android gain, they are now sitting on 31.2% of the market, which is slightly higher than BlackBerry's 30.4% share, and the way things are going, they should hit 40% before years end.
Everybody nowadays are launching their own application store for mobile phones, it is a lucrative market, but when does having too many app stores become a problem? We doubt that day will be too far off.
Opera today, launched the Opera Mobile Store, this is the place where you go to download apps, just like every other app store out there, the difference is, this store will feature in the Opera Mobile Browser and possibly, Mini Opera. Currently, Opera Mobile Store features apps for Android, BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. If you need apps for your iPhone, Opera plans to set up apps with a link back iTunes, makes you wonder, what is the point?
Unfortunate news for original Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi and Palm Pixi Plus owners, as HP unveiled new wonderful devices like the Veer, Palm Pre 3 and Touchpad, they are phasing out the older devices. The original four will not be getting the previously promised update to webOS 2.0, which brings many new features like Stacks, Just Type and more. However, though Jon Rubinstein delivered some disappointing news for older owners, he specifically said that owners of the four devices will get "something special" from HP when the TouchPad, Pre 3 and Veer it the market.
Following the Palm Pre and the Palm Pre 2, HP will launch the HP Pre 3, a totally redesigned smartphone, and, from the looks of it, a far more superior handset than previous webOS devices, including its younger brother the Veer.
The HP Pre 3 packs quite a punch as it's going to be a high-end webOS device you should be interested in: 3.6-inch toucshcreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor, GPS, 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus, LED flash and HD video recording, front-facing VGA camera, accelerometer, compass, proximity and light sensors, WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Mobile Hotspot support, 512MB RAM, 8GB or 16GB of storage space and webOS under the hood.
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A short while ago we showed you the first images of the HP/Palm tablets and it seems that the first specs and features of the device have been leaked before the official announcement.
The device, called the HP Topaz, is probably going to be unveiled at some special HP/Palm event in February, but the specs and features of the tablet have been leaked already:
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First pictures and specs of the HP/Palm webOS tablets are out, and I am not excited one bit, what the hell? The tablets are codenamed Topaz and Opal, both feature a 9 inch and 7 inch touch display respectively, devices appears to lack physical buttons.
Dual core tablets are where everyone is headed towards, so it comes at no surprise that HP/Palm webOS tablets would go that route. The chip inside is a 1.2GHz dual core processor, no idea on the name of the chip maker, but right now webOS fans could care less, they are hungry for some webOS fun.
What is it that Sprint has in store for us next month, February 7th? They have been issuing invitations to many of the well known blogs, with the promise to unveil "yet another industry first" according the Sprint themselves.
So, the questions on every bodies lips, what is that Sprint has up its sleeve? What new industry first shall they throw at us now? Will they announce another Android smartphone with the capability of washing our clothes, cooking our food and eliminating our foes? Or, to be more realistic, a handset with a new design, more powerful than the Motorola Atrix 4G, the first 4G enabled iPhone, or just something to let us down after all this hype, what say you?
News in regards to the HP webOS has been almost none existent for quite some time now, they didn't even make a showing at CES 2011, so one has to wonder, what are they doing back there? Well, it seems they are hard at work to bring us an all new webOS to rock our world on 3 type of devices.
According to HP, we will be seeing Smartphones, Slates, and Netbooks running webOS, a king of triple play if you will, so expect a big announcement at MWC 2011 from HP regarding all this. We hope not only to see a new webOS, but some kick ass hardware that would really let the OS fly, it is full time for webOS to feature on powerful devices like its Android cousin.
The PalmPad has been rumoured for years and years now, however when they didn't show up at CES with a webOS tablet, people were starting to get worried about what HP was doing with their purchase of the famous PDA company. However, all developers of webOS applications were recently sent an exclusive email, inviting them to a special even to see the future of webOS, as they said. Will we see the PalmPad on this date? Most likely, but along with the new tablet, we should also see the revealing of the Palm Pixi 2, a smaller and compacted Palm Pre 2, in a more BlackBerry style, with no sliding mechanism. There are a lot of Palm device rumours out, but none are confirmed as of yet. Stay tuned for the February 9 event as more leaks appear.
