Palm Makes WebOS 2.0 and Palm Pre 2 Official
Are you ready for the Palm Pre 2?
A few weeks back we saw pictures of what was apparently the Palm Pre 2. French blog Mobifrance said it was a WebOS 2.0 device and that it could launch as early as November. Well, Palm just made it official, and while the exact release date for a Verizon launch has yet to be confirmed, the company has confirmed that it will be hitting Europe this coming Friday.
Slightly curvier and slimmer than its predecessor, the Palm Pre 2 packs a 3.1-inch 480x320 HVGA multitouch display, a 1GHz CPU, Exchange support, GPS, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and 16GB of integrated storage. The battery is said to be good for around 5.5 hours of talk time and it's got the same slide-out, portrait QWERTY keyboard, which should please fans of tactile keyboard.
Of course, the most interesting part of all of this is that this is the first WebOS 2.0 device and Pre Central has released a WebOS 2.0 walkthrough that showcases the new features, which includes improvements to multitasking and search. Unfortunately, judging from some of the comments we received about the Pre 2 last week, many Pre users love the software but have issues with the hardware. Still, it's nice to get a look at Web OS 2.0, especially when you consider HP's plans to put it on tablets and other mobile devices.
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It looks interesting, I'd like to see them succeed with this, I used to really like using the palm OS.
Ditch the bulky keyboard and give me a 3.7" screen. Slide out keyboards are prone to breaking and they add unnecessary bulk. No thanks again Palm.
If that thing pictured is the Palm Pre 2 then it's ugly as sin!
cmon, that phone is so ugly my granma will never touch it
As a current Palm Pre user, I'd like to have a phone with a bigger screen. I'll buy a Palm again if it comes with a bigger screen and they get the hardware right (which they seem to have done).
Nice OS, but an uglier phone than that would be hard to find...
Ditch the bulky keyboard and give me a 3.7" screen. Slide out keyboards are prone to breaking and they add unnecessary bulk. No thanks again Palm.
Some people like slide-outs. Agree on the screen though.
Most new Androids and WP7s are coming with 3.5in+ screens and 840 x 480 resolution... no reason for Palm to be so behind the times. HVGA is way 2008.
A lot of people like slide out keyboards, you can easily offer two phone options. Like the HTC EVO vs the Samsung EPIC Sprint offers for Android. Comparable phones, one with and one without the keyboard.
The small screen and tiny hard to use thumboard are killing this device, though. My last phone was the Palm Treo Pro, the tiny thumbboard is a nuisance. There are other phones with similar design who have an easier to use thumbboard. The keys are too small with larger space in between and are too hard to press down.
I'm glad to see webOS still going because I would love to see it on an Evo/iphone style phone. This tiny screen and small keyboard and all plastic design is just bad.
Actually if there's a way to get webOS running on an Android phone then that would be awesome... webOS mod for the HTC Evo anyone? hahaha
seems like a dove soap!!
Sorry, not interested in webOS. The device doesn't help either - the first Pre wasn't exactly beautiful and this looks like more of the same.
Also, 3.1" screen? My flip phone has bigger screen than that, at FWVGA resolution too...