HP Offering Free 6-Pack of Apps for TouchPad Owners Until August 31st
HP has decided to gift the new wave of TouchPad owners with a free 6-pack of apps designed to best take advantage of the tablet and is offering a selection of different apps, from interactive storybooks, games and a camera app to a birdwatching app to assist birdwatchers in their pursuit. The following apps are [...]
HP Fire Sale on TouchPad Starting Tomorrow: $99.99 for 16GB and $149.99 for 32GB
Not even a full 24 hours after confirmation that HP would be discontinuing development of webOS hardware, memos sent to HP dealers have confirmed that the manufacturer of the TouchPad has authorized a massive discount on the TouchPad from its first price cut just one week ago. Beginning tomorrow, all dealers and resellers have been [...]
Breaking: HP to Discontinue webOS Mobile Hardware Development
In a press release issued ahead of its earnings call later today HP has announced that it will discontinue development of dedicated webOS hardware such as the Pre phone series and the TouchPad tablet series, following this morning’s Bloomberg report that stated that the company would be selling off its PC manufacturing business while acquiring [...]
HP Demotes Jon Rubenstein Upward, Out of webOS Group
HP has announced in a purely shareholder focused press release that it has moved former Palm CEO and now former Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Palm Global Business Group Jon Rubenstein into a new role with a new title within HP, more specifically a “product innovation role within the Personal Systems Groupâ€. [...]
Sprint Offering $50 Credit to Select Customers, Rejects Pre 3
Sprint is currently offering select customers that are out of their contract or close to contract completion an incentive to stay with the carrier with a $50 account credit after renewing with a new 2 year agreement. The idea behind the credit is to reduce the carrier’s churn rate and improve its quarterly results, but [...]
FCC Reveals CDMA Pre 3 with Added Global Roaming Support
The FCC has revealed the first information on the specifications of the HP Pre 3, slated for launch later this Summer. Of note is the quiet addition of global roaming capability, with support for quadband GSM and dual-band HSPA on the 900/2100 bands. When the Palm Pre 3 was originally announced this year, no executive [...]
HP Rolls Out webOS 2.1 for Pre 2
HP has begun to roll out the long awaited webOS 2.1 update to unlocked versions of the Pre 2. The 32MB includes the Exhibition Mode first demonstrated during its keynote presentation last month, but a more complete changelog has yet to be posted. It is not clear what bug fixes or other issues webOS 2.1 [...]
Deal: Palm Pixi Plus for Verizon Wireless – $44.99 Shipped
The Palm Pixi oversupply that Verizon sold off to wholesalers continues to diminish. But it has surfaced yet again at a much lower price, $39.99 plus $5.00 shipping. Daily Steals is selling the phone this time, as the supply appears to shuffle between popular one-sale-per-day sites. The phone continues to work on 5 GB of [...]
HP Palm webOS 2.0 Upgrade Debacle, Timeline Edition
We like Palm, and we like HP. We’re even partners with them on some levels. However, the failure to properly follow through on their commitment to deliver webOS 2.0 for all webOS devices keeps getting worse. We can only bullet-point the chain of events at this point, in “graphic” detail below: * Palm commits to [...]
Verizon Rolls Out LTE in Detroit and Confirms HP Pre 2
Verizon Wireless has announced that it has expanded its LTE network to Michigan with the roll out of LTE service in the city of Detroit, with the carrier stating that the network covers 80% of the metro Detroit population. Read More for a list of cities covered by the network. In related news, Verizon has [...]
