HP and Palm

With the death of webos devices, HP destroyed their ambitions for webos. When webos was first aquired from Palm in april 2010, HP were going into give their PC's a webos style media centre, heck they were even going to introduce their printers with a Webos interface and these printers were successfully brought to market. so you can kinda see they had big plans for webos.

Keeping already established devices by palm, HP promised that they'd bring continuous updates to the palm family 'Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, and the "Plus but since the hardware inside these devices wasn't good enough to support Webos 2.0. So What HP did was upgrade the hardware of similar devices by outrighting the entire Palm market. This became the introduction to the HP veer, which is a small webos device, roughly the same size as the Palm Pixi. It's got a 2.6 inch screen with a resolution that can pump up to 197 pixels per inch, as with any Palm/HP webos phone, it's got a full qwerty keyboard.

I might have said this before in another blog but this is one of the things that really really bug me with palm/HP, is that you don't have a on-screen keyboard. What if you want to send a quick message or just a quick web search, you've got to flip out the qwerty keyboard to do any tasks that require the keyboard. for years you'd think palm/HP would realise that some tasks could be easier if you had an on-screen keyboard. Granted they've got the jailbreak/Preware community to help and push the borders of webos.

I'll be honest, when i first saw the webos system, i wasn't really stricked by it, nothing wowed me enough to actually purchase the device but ever since the HP touchpad fire sale happened, i've become a lover of webos and want to get everything webos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Rdhf02uF8&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxk14xysFg&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active < It's a shame that this advert was broadcast in the UK, if palm broadcast this advert in the UK they would have got a lot more revenue for their products.