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The Palm Pre PC World A year and a half after Apple revolutionized smartphones with its iPhone, Palm released what it had hoped would be its big comeback product, the Palm Pre. … HP Buys PalmSkatter Tech (blog) HP – Palm Deal: Will it satisfy the consumers?Entertainment and Showbiz! BuyoutorSellout.com: Palm-Hewlett-Packard Merger – A Sellout?"MarketWatch (press release) IntoMobile (blog) -Business Standard all 2,139 news articles »

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Good news for those eagerly awaiting the actual launch of the AT&T Palm Pre Plus. Engadget reports that dummy units of the Palm Pre Plus have begun arriving at stores. Add that piece of evidence to the fact that AT&T’s promotional video for webOS from over a week ago ends with "Now available on AT&T" and it’s looking likely that those FCC filings that suggested a May 10th launch of the device are quite possibly accurate.

Hopefully AT&T employees are getting properly trained up, Project Jumpstart-style, on those practice Palm Pre Plus phones (we hear that there are some web-based ‘classes’ for them already). Hey AT&T, while you’re at it, we recommend an update to this snarky little Pre vs. iPhone document you sent out over a year ago, the Palm Pre Plus and webOS have come a long way since April 2009.

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HP has announced that they’ve taken on Richard Gerstein as the new SVP of the Personal Systems Group (PSG), the division of HP that include Palm when the buyout goes through.

Gerstein comes to HP after a few years in a similar position at Sears, before which he was in charge of marketing for Alberto Culver and also worked for Procter & Gamble. 

We’ve not saying that this is absolutely a sign that HP is preparing to fix up Palm’s up-to-now woefully underfunded marketing once the buyout goes through, since apparently the position needed to be filled regardless. If nothing else – we’re just saying it behooves webOS aficionados to get familiar with HP and their team in the PSG.

HP’s press release, via @Gartenberg

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Palm Pre Plus dummy handsets arriving at AT&T Electronista (blog) While the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus that are scheduled to arrive at AT&T haven't been dated yet, the arrival of the dummy versions meant for display of …

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Microsoft Won't Make Counteroffer for Palm, CEO Says BusinessWeek … had predicted would make an offer for Palm Inc., won't bid after Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to acquire the maker of Pre and Pixi phones this week. … and more »

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Palm has given developers the heads-up that a "webOS Update [is] Coming Soon" and developers need to be ready to test their apps on the new version. In "early May" there will be an SDK release candidate, giving developers a short week to test their apps, and two to three more "before the update lands on consumer devices."

In other words, Palm looks to be targeting a release of the next version of webOS for late May or early June. The good news is exactly what in-the-know webOS lovers would hope: as predicted, Palm looks to be ramping up native ‘PDK’ apps for this release. 

The email indicates that this won’t be a major update, and that timeframe is probably a little too early for the big, structural changes outline in Palm’s Dev Day keynote, but we’re excited to see what smaller / indie developers have been cooking up with the PDK.

Thanks to everybody who sent this in!

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We know that HP is hot-to-trot to get webOS up and running on a tablet/slate device and obviously webOS is going to continue to run on smartphones, but this article on Forbes has us thinking: is HP thinking bigger?

"Smartphones are a part of this, but this is really about the Web operating system," Shane Robison, HP’s chief strategy and technology officer, told Forbes. "It’s a change in our business model to a connected device model." HP, he said, is assuming a world in which almost everything needs at least the potential to connect to the Internet.

Long-time followers of mobility may remember that 3Com (former Palm owner and soon-to-be fellow HP-owned subsidiary) had just such a vision with the Audrey. It didn’t work then (the dot-com bust didn’t help) and in general the dream of every device in your house getting an internet connection has always been of the pipe-variety. Perhaps HP thinks that time is coming?

We’re not arguing that webOS should be slapped on any old thing – but it does raise an interesting question for us: what, at its core, is webOS? If it’s a great multitasking smartphone OS, well, then shoehorning it into other devices isn’t going to work so well. But what if HP buys into Palm’s argument that webOS is, at its core, the best way to take the web and modern, HTML5 standards and turn it into a touch-friendly operating system? If so, then HP could be making a play to make webOS the best way to put "the web" on devices.

It very similar to the ideas behind Google’s Chrome OS, but the direction that Palm has already said they are taking with the future of webOS sounds much more robust than Chrome OS.

Toasters? Bad idea. But HP is definitely thinking outside the smartphone box:

In his call to analysts Wednesday, Bradley identified vertical markets like health care and education in which devices might soon appear, sold through HP’s partners.

What do you think is the essence of webOS? Do you think that HP could help make it the de-facto way to get the web on internet-connected devices, supplanting Android and WinCE?

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