I'm one of those early adopters of the original Pre on Sprint. I put up with the crappy hardware (all three replacements of them), the slow laggy software, the lack of updates, the lack of apps, the reneging of getting webOS 2.0 and finally the promise that we'll get something special in return for our "loyalty". Well, today Palm (HP) announced that we can qualify for a $50 mail-in-rebate for just the $599 32GB TouchPad (not the $499 16GB version). I know people will say that this is better than... Read more →

For a long time, they've been promising Pre and Pixi owners that the webOS 2.0 upgrade would be available for their devices "in the coming months." This was the vague message repeated at their developer events, in interviews, and through their social media channels — much to the chagrin of their customers, who were holding out for the update with decreasing patience. http://www.precentral.net/webos-2-0-will-be-releas... Read more →

Not a deal-breaker but still. The webOS is really great. So much better than my iPhone iOS I had for 3 years.

1) I work for HP and I thought I would at least give webOS a try since I have a professional stake in its success. 2) I bought a pixi plus unlocked on Ebay for 150 Euro, which is 1/6 the cost of an unlocked iphone4 for me. 3) the Android phones I was considering (desire, galaxy s) were also substanitally more $$ and difficult to find in stock near me. I was a little nervous given some of the reviews I read on the Palm pixi plus, that the device was slow, underpowered and sluggish. I have to say,... Read more →

My stingy carrier Optus tried to charge you $10 or something a month to get internet tethering on the iPhone... just one of the great things of webOS :-)

So addictive its annoying

why couldn't they have juiced this baby up a bit more? This is and always will be my DREAM form-factor for a cellphone. It's incredibly thin and has a more-than-usable, full-QWERTY keyboard, and a totally usable touchscreen. I'm a pretty simple dude, I just want a phone that fits me. I'm hoping that with the new funding from HP that Palm will kick out a new phone with a similar form-factor but more juice! *dreams*

Sad to see Palm's time as an independent company come to an end, but all in all probably the best chance for webOS to fulfill on its promise as a mobile platform. Very curious to see what HP ends up doing with it, esp. since buying Palm certainly addresses the gaping hole in their mobile strategy.