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HP and Palm quietly released a new logo for the merged companies. The new logo debuted on HP’s Facebook page and Palm’s website earlier this month and appeared with nary a mention from Palm or HP. The logo loses Palm’s traditional orange coloring and replaces it with a grey that matches HP’s blue. For those…
Although Rogers nor Palm have said anything on the record about offering the recently-announced Pre 2 (even in light of some poorly-spelled comment code within a Palm site), some shots of the phone’s retail box and the device itself running on Rogers pretty much seals the deal. Attached with the fresh pictures is a highly-tentative…
According to Asian sources, Palm has contracted Foxconn and Compal to produce six new devices for launch in 2011. The report claims that Foxconn has secured five of the contracts, including one for the rumored PalmPad, and Compal has picked up one contract for a single unknown device. The devices are expected to be produced and…
Smartphone adoption is growing rapidly if you hadn’t noticed. In fact, smartphone adoption is growing so rapidly that 19% of all phones shipped today are smartphones. This is expected to grow even more, and much faster than it took to get where we are today. Smartphone shipments have gone up 12% since the first quarter…
It’s a little disappointing that webOS never took off. It has design elements in there that to this day have yet to be matched by other platforms. “Itching Thumb” is taking one of the webOS interaction metaphors, the use of cards to represent running applications, and bringing it to the Android platform. To use it…
The Wall Street Journal posted a poll to their site today for their readers to answer, asking which mobile operating system is the best. The results aren’t terrible surprising, but the margins between the winner and the runner-up are very surprising. The winner so far is Android, and it’s leaving every other mobile operating system…
HP has released an Apple iPad competitor but the Slate 500 may not be the tablet everyone is hoping for. We first saw the HP Slate in January at CES and it will be running Windows 7 with some optimization for touch. It also sports an 8.9-inch touchscreen, 1.86 GHz Atom processor, WiFi, 64 GB…
There wasn’t much fanfare for the Palm Pre 2, which is surprising given the long wait and the new backing that Palm got with HP. But alas, it got itself one, maybe two paragraphs in a press release that told us it was coming to SFR in France this week and will arrive in North…
This might interest some of you, since the Palm Pre 2 was officially announced today for SFR in France and Verizon in the U.S., but it’s also been spotted in the FCC’s listings. We’re seeing the CDMA and North American GSM versions above, knowing full well that Verizon is getting it and unlocked versions will…
HP is making things more official now since its acquisition of Palm with an official announcement for both webOS 2.0 and the Palm Pre 2. Initially, webOS showed us so much promise: it is intuitive, elegant, well-designed and has all the features that a modern smartphone OS should have. Unfortunately, the lackluster hardware that came…