Video: HP's TouchPad caught on video

A video from Tinhte.vn shows the HP TouchPad which is checked out, manhandled and placed side by side with an iPad. From the video, we can see that the HP TouchPad has a lot in common with the Pre but boy does it attract a lot of fingerprints.

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HP Palm's video teaser for tomorrow's big reveal event

Think big. Think small. Think ahead. Think beyond. This is what the countdown page  that's taken over Palm's webpage is promising for tomorrow's event. This is Palm's big coming out party after HP took the reins. We're so stoked as it looks like aside from the Opal and Topaz WebOS tablets hinted at last month, there may be a new smartphone and possibly more.

Oh, woe is Palm

We can't help but feel really bad for Palm, whose situation has apparently gone from bad to worse. This is the company that redefined portable computing with the PDA in the 90's, then pretty muh invented the smartphone soon after that but now the company is sinking because no one is buying their phones, what went wrong?

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The Palm Pre and its Possibilities

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla A few weeks ago, it seemed that Palm as a company and most importantly, as a mobile platform, was done for. In the world of Blackberries, iPhones, Windows Mobile phones and Symbian smartphones — Palm, which could be credited fro creating the smartphone, was just played out, moribund and lost. Its operating system harkened back to the pre-millenium it showed. The inability to multi-task, the flaky Wi-Fi implementation and and it got to the point where the best OS to run on a Palm Treo was Windows Mobile. For loyal Palm users everywhere, this was an outrage and they began to seek the comforts of alternative smartphones. Now Palm is back and in surprising fashion has unveiled the Palm Pre and a new OS. More impressions on the Palm Pre after the break The Palm Pre, which was designed and developed in part by Apple engineers responsible for the iPod and which were subsequently hired by Palm brings a lot of features and functions as a camera phone, a portable media player, a mobile Internet client and relies heavily on Palm’s own WebOS. Great Revelation The Palm Pre seems to be a strong contender and may just be the device that puts Palm back on the map and we are happy about this since Palm has always been a nostalgic favorite of ours since the days of the Palm III and even as they acquired Handspring to absorb the very first Treo, the last product that really kept Palm in business. The Pre integrates multi-touch features and a full tactile keyboard, which is a powerful statement to make in the wake of products like the Blackberry Storm which is trying to offer multi-touch to an established thumb-board market. The Pre, its seems, is giving its users all options. Right now it will only be available in the US Sprint network — a 3G GSM model is in the works but no news on when it will be available to networks outside of the US. Canadian users will likely see a version on Bell or Telus networks. Innovation In Effect What do you get with the Pre? A 3.1 inch 24-bit color screen, a 3-megapixel camera with an LED Flash, 8GB internal memory, EV-DO, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It also features an innovative wireless charging system that uses electromagnetic induction system which uses a ‘Touchtstone’ dock that charges the device upon contact. The new OS is based on the cloud and doesn’t seem to have a desktop equivalent, it should be interesting to see it in action. For now we have to content ourselves with the reviews from the US. We hope Palm has a few more of these in the works, maybe even a non-smartphone version for those who are clamoring for a PDA with Wi-Fi. We’re watching with great excitement as this story develops further.

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