The Palm Pre has been the center of the smartphone buzz for some time now, but with June nearly here, and the Palm Pre’s launch getting even closer, any little bit of Palm Pre gossip is music to our ears. Today’s news is the Palm Pre’s ringtone.
HP has said that they will commence producing new smartphones running WebOS in Q1 2011. HP who bought Palm earlier this year yearns to reignite the PDA market which it once used to dominate. According to an online report, HP, along with Palm is working on a tablet called PalmPad that will use a SCALED UP version of the webOS that currently runs on Palm Pre smartphones.
Hewlett-Packard’s first WebOS-running smartphone looks to be a Palm Pre 2. SFR, the second-largest mobile carrier in France, touted the device on its website Oct. 12, later apparently noting its faux pas and pulling the page though not before PreCentral.net grabbed a screenshot, pictured at right.
The Palm Pre 2, looking quite a bit like the original Pre, is said to feature a 1GHz processor (up from the previous 600MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3430), plus 512MB of RAM. It also features a flatter screen PreCentral guesses that means glass a more intuitive user interface, a faster boot time, an “overlayed” view of related applications, and a redesign of the Palm App Catalog. It will also run WebOS 2.0, which will features “push integration.”
The QWERTY keypad design also appears less recessed, and a PreCentral reader with sharp eyes points out that the Palm Pre’s USB door has been replaced with an exposed microUSB port. SFR offered no details on pricing or a release date.
One of the most anticipated unannounced devices is the Palm Mansion that will shun the physical keyboard, sported by the Palm’s current webOS smartphone lineup. It is said to have a generous WVGA display and will run WebOS 2.0
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