Hot on the heels of our webOS battle between the Palm Pre 2 and the HP Pre 3 is our next installment – the Palm Pixi Plus versus HP Veer. The credit-card sized HP Veer will take the honors as the smallest webOS phone to date when it launches later this year, but is it worth the upgrade? Let’s begin.
Tagged ‘Palm Pixi Plus’
Palm hasn’t released a new smartphone since the HP/Palm deal saw it gobbled up by the big PC-creating beast. Most of the talk since then has been about the now near-mythical Palm Pad. But now rumours are ramping up that a totally touchscreen webOS 2.0 smartphone is on the cards. Tipsters are talking up a device with the codename, the Palm Mansion. Sounds classy!
Morning! It’s a wet and windy start to the week outside, but that’s just more of a reason to stick right here instead, where we’ll be bringing you breaking tech news like warm cups of coca all morning. Before we get started, catch up on everything you might have missed over the weekend with our round up right here.
HP has finally completed its purchase of Palm and got its hands on webOS. While we’ve been told to expect the HP Slate reborn with webOS and even HP webOS printers, netbooks looked like they were out of the picture. Put perusing the announcement trumpeting the Palm deal, we noticed that webOS netbooks are part of the plan after all and folk worried that the Palm Pixi Plus marked the end of Palm smart phones can breathe easy…
The iPhone 4 isn’t merely slim – at just 9.3mm thick, it’s no less than 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS, and as Steve Jobs pointed out yesterday, that makes it the skinniest smartphone ever made. But there are plenty of other mobiles that run it close in the slenderness stakes – read on for the full list of iPhone 4-rivalling beanpole phones!
When HP snapped up Palm we thought it meant that webOS smartphones were saved. Hell, we just said exactly that during our Palm Pixi Plus unboxing. But it seems we might have got the wrong end of the stick. HP head honcho Mark Hurd has revealed his plans for Palm and while webOS tablets are definitely on the way, it could be the end of the line for Palm smartphones. Read on for words that will cause Palm fans serious pain…
Happy Wednesday to you! We’re almost at the midweek tipping point, and to see you through to that milestone, we’re here with a gadget pick me up stuffed full of all the latest headlines from around the world. Want to know what you’ve missed? Catch it all, quick, here in techie breakie!
The Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus are headed to the UK next week! We knew that the follow-ups to the webOS-packing Palm Pre were coming to O2 but we didn’t have a date or pricing details. Now we do. Read on for the skinny on how to get your hands on the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus…