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By: UK Embedded » Blog Archive » HP buys Palm for smartphone and tablets

UK Embedded » Blog Archive » HP buys Palm for smartphone and tablets — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:22:51 +0000

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By: regularpcuser

regularpcuser — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:51:43 +0000

Well…
Now who’s your daddy?
HP

By: HP Buys Palm for $1.2 Billion, But What Does it Mean for Android? « Droid Freaks

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:09:05 +0000

[...] the market? Outside of Android even more speculation flew around, with some going so far as to say Facebook should and could acquire Palm to create their own brand of social-networking phones. Now all the speculation can be put to rest [...]

By: regularpcuser

regularpcuser — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:23:31 +0000

I'm happy with my Pre, I like better than the iPhone my wife has and I'll never buy anything from Google. I heard Cisco was interested but I was hoping for HTC. The fundamental platform is solid and would blow the iPad away on a tablet. Windows Phone 7 looks very WebOS like and might be the best platform out there. This market is still young and there's plenty of room for different platforms.

By: jbrandonf

jbrandonf — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:44:20 +0000

Sure. At a time like this Palm can definitely afford to flush all the R&D money that went into webOS and spend more to skin Android.

There was some kind of rumor about this a month or so ago and Palm engineers literally laughed it off.

By: twalk

twalk — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:40:59 +0000

The value of Palm really isn't WebOS. It's the patents. Palm has a lot of the fundamental patents covering many of the most basic smartphone technologies.

Palm can't really use them, because of the mutually assured destruction of a patent war would bankrupt them quickly.

However a patent troll company could probably take Palm, rip it up and sell the parts, then use the patents to make a lot more than $1B.

By: Parambyte

Parambyte — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:49:17 +0000

As someone pointed out correctly, the value is in the OS. And Palm has a distinct and full fledged OS. But not worth a billion dollars, me thinks. Palm needs aggressive advertising to build the brand as desirable for consumers. And contrary to what a lot of tech friendly people think, most consumers wouldnt care how many apps the phone has. If its cool and available, they will buy it with basic apps like FB, Twitter, YouTube etc to begin with.

By: John Catao

John Catao — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:08:41 +0000

There is never too late. There is always a chance.

By: Is Palm Crumbling Before Our Eyes? | DAILY BREAKING NEWS UPDATE

Is Palm Crumbling Before Our Eyes? | DAILY BREAKING NEWS UPDATE — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:57:34 +0000

[...] we’ve heard rather far-fetched ideas such as Facebook rebranding WebOS as the Facebook Phone, we think it’s far more likely that Palm is acquired at a far cheaper price than the company [...]