HP Touchpad, Veer and Pre 3 hands-on videos #MWC11
Last week HP had showed the world how they are going to get back into mobile game with WebOS products that they have acquired with Palm Inc. Their new offerings – the next generation of WebOS, Touchpad tablet, Pre 3 and Veer smartphones looked pretty cool. We’ve covered the new device specs and features already, [...]
Verizon Palm Pre 2 pre-orders have started, it costs $99.99 and will ship on February 17
HP has started taking pre-orders for the Verizon Palm Pre 2. Contrary to what we found out yesterday, the phone will only start shipping on February 17 (a week from now), in line with previous rumors. We also know the price now. It will be $99.99 if you sign a new two-year contract. Getting the [...]
Palm Pre 2 will finally be available on Verizon tomorrow
Tomorrow, February 10, will be a big day for Verizon. The iPhone 4 will finally become available in stores for those who aren’t already Verizon customers. Also, Big Red will finally release the Palm Pre 2. No, that’s not a typo. Verizon will not be selling the just-unveiled HP Pre 3, but the Palm Pre [...]
HP TouchPad, HP Pre 3 and HP Veer with WebOS officially announced
HP and its subsidiary Palm have just announced no less than three new WebOS devices: one tablet and two smartphones. Curiously, none of them bears the Palm brand – it’s all about HP from now on. The new tablet is called HP TouchPad – although some may have expected it to be called HP Topaz [...]
Verizon will launch the Palm Pre 2 on February 17
The Palm Pre 2 was always going to eventually be sold by Verizon, but perhaps no one anticipated just how long it would take for that to happen. The device, the first one to run webOS 2, was unveiled back in October, and has since become available in the US in unlocked form. Now it [...]
Palm teases new HP WebOS devices (smartphone and tablet?) before next week’s announcement
HP and Palm will host an event next week, on February 9, where new WebOS products are going to be showcased. But before that, Palm has posted a video teaser and a countdown timer which provide a glimpse on what we should expect from the upcoming event. While the device seen (well, almost seen) next [...]
HP Palm Topaz tablet specs leak
On February 9, HP is going to unveil new devices running webOS, the mobile operating system developed by Palm, which HP acquired last year. And as we get closer to that date, we get more and more details on HP’s upcoming tablet range. At this point, it’s quite clear that there will be two tablets [...]
HP / Palm tablets detailed, one of them may be called HP Touchpad
Just yesterday, we’ve heard that HP plans to unveil two new Palm tablets next month, which will be called Opal and Topaz. Now we have more info on the upcoming tablets, courtesy of Engadget. Reportedly, the HP Palm Opal has a 1024 x 768 pixels TFT LCD display and measures 180 x 144 x 13 [...]
HP to launch two Palm WebOS tablets this year, one of them will be out in September
HP is hosting an event on February 9, and basically the entire world already knows that they’re going to announce something tablet-related, Palm-related, and WebOS-related. But until today no one knew any hard details about what’s going to be unveiled. Everyone assumed that there will be at least one HP Palm WebOS-based tablet, but it [...]
HP to host a Palm WebOS event on February 9, may launch new smartphones and tablets
HP will host a WebOS-related event on February 9. The event banner, as received by LaptopMag, has the following written on it: “Think big. Think small. Think beyond.”. First of all, this ensures that there will be no HP, Palm or WebOS-related news to come out of CES, contrary to past speculation. Second, the ‘big’ [...]
HP to launch PalmPad during CES in January?
CES is only a couple of weeks away, so speculation has started on what we’ll see during said trade show. Today, Fox News (of all places) is reporting that we may actually see some PalmPad-branded devices from HP. Not one, not two, but three. Three PalmPads, differentiated by minor tech specs. And apparently they will [...]
Palm Mansion may have a 5-inch or larger touchscreen, launch in Q1 2011
While we’ve already seen the first smartphone to run HP’s new WebOS 2.0 – the Palm Pre 2 – more devices are reportedly still in the works. One will clearly be the PalmPad, HP’s WebOS-powered tablet. However, we’ve heard rumors before of another device, codenamed (or possibly named) Palm Mansion. The only details we’ve had [...]
Palm Pre 2 now available in the US, unlocked for $450
The Palm Pre 2 has become available in the US. Not through any carrier (although Verizon is expected to add it to its smartphone lineup at some point in the near future), but direct from HP. This is the unlocked GSM version of the Pre, and as such won’t work on CDMA networks such as [...]
Palm Pre 2 gets priced in the UK, won’t be sold by any operator
As we’ve heard before, the Palm Pre 2 is about to be launched in the UK. HP’s first WebOs 2.0-powered smartphone won’t, however, be offered by any UK operator, at least at first. Orange, Vodafone and O2 have all told Pocket-lint that they have no plans for offering the Pre 2 – which is especially [...]
Palm Pre 2 will hit the UK SIM-free on November 12
When the Palm Pre 2 was officially announced, the release only named three countries as having the honor of receiving HP’s new smartphone: France, the US and Canada. But rest assured, for it looks like the Pre 2 will definitely be coming to other territories as well. Today HP has confirmed to Pocket-lint that the [...]
Palm Pre 2 pre-orders will begin in the US on November 8
According to previous rumors, the Palm Pre 2 will be released by Verizon on November 11. And it now looks like HP’s new WebOS 2.0-powered smartphone will get a short three-day pre-order period before that. Those interested in the Palm Pre 2 will be able to pre-order it starting November 8. That information has been [...]
Confirmed: Palm Pre 2 will be on Rogers
The Palm Pre 2 is coming. And while the original announcement mentioned it will be coming to SFR in France, Verizon in the US and Canada. The lack of details as to which carrier will sell it in Canada has been interesting, but a rumor from a few days ago suggested it may be Rogers. [...]
Palm Pre 2 may be going to AT&T and Rogers as well
The Palm Pre 2 was officially unveiled by HP yesterday, and it’s going to be available in France from SFR on Friday. HP’s announcement only mentioned that the first smartphone to be powered by WebOS 2.0 will be on Verizon in the US and will also be sold in Canada – but no timelines were [...]
Palm Pre 2 will be on Verizon
The Palm Pre 2 is coming soon. That much is clear. We already know its specs, we’ve also seen some live hands-on pictures, and today’s leak is about its presence in the United States. Previous leaks either came from French carrier SFR or were related to the device it will sell. But now it looks [...]
Palm Pre 2 launch imminent, live pictures leak
Just yesterday we saw French carrier SFR inadvertently leak some details about the upcoming Palm Pre 2. Not even a day has passed and now we have the first live hands-on pictures of the smartphone, courtesy of MobiFrance. Along with the pictures came reconfirmation of the specs we heard about yesterday. As such, the Pre [...]