After being off the press radar since before the acquisition by HP, former CEO turned GM of Palm Jon Rubinstein is set to appear for the first time in a talk with HP’s Todd Bradly.   The session begins tomorrow at 3PM at Brainstorm Tech (where in-person registration will set you back a cool $3500) where the topic will undoubtedly be Palm and webOS, and HP has invited you to join in on the web feed for free by using coupon code BTVTWT at the event’s website.

Will we see a product announcement or any insight into the company’s roadmap?  If recent presentations at other tech conferences are any indication, probably not, but it’ll be great to see one of the catalysts behind webOS’s presence in the market place back in action.

Via: @hpnews

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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse sat down at the Fortune-sponsored Brainstorm: Tech conference in Pasadena, California this week to talk about the future of mobile computing. And of course, the Palm Pre came up (would we be talking about it if it didn’t?). On the device, Hesse said that the launch was a success, but sales numbers were until recently very constrained by supply issues, not a lack of demand. And because of the initial limited launch, it’s going to take a while before they can declare the Pre a smash hit or not: “You won’t know if we have a real hit on our hands until its been out three months, four months, five months … It’s too early to tell.”

Hesse also took up the defensive against claims of inordinately high return rates, taking the analysts to task for their speculation, “Most of the speculation I read is wrong.”

Lastly, there’s that other Linux-based mobile phone operating system: Android. Hesse commented that Android was not ready for prime time when it was released, and it’s taken to the latest 1.5 iteration and HTC’s fancy new UI for it to be up to snuff for Sprint. At least one new Android model will land on Sprint this year.

[via: CNET and Reuters]

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