Windows 7 Slate Video Out in the Wild

Via webOSround.com we have a video from someone who’s gotten their hot little hands all over HP’s upcoming Windows 7 Slate: It’s just a prototype, and we don’t really know how close it is to release. But, it certainly has some things the iPad doesn’t have including the cameras and expandability we saw earlier in the year. As a user of a Tablet PC running Windows 7, I have to admit that I’m not at all...

HP Photosmart Printer Includes Wireless Digital Companion

The HP Photosmart eStation Printer C510 doesn’t run webOS, because it was designed and produced well before HP’s acquisition of Palm, but one can easily imagine how webOS might fit in here. Check out HP’s description and just try to stop your imagination from going wild: Overview Combine full Web browsing with high-performance printing, faxing without a phone line, copying and scanning. The detachable,...

Sprint Lowers Pre and Pixi Pricing – What’s Next?

Precentral reports that Sprint has finally matched Verizon and AT&T in reducing the price of the Pre and Pixi. The news comes from an internal Sprint playbook, and is interesting relative to all of the rumors floating around about potential new smartphones coming in the late Fall. If there’s inventory left when the next smartphone launches, I can see the Pre and Pixi representing low- and no-cost alternatives...

Palm Job Alert: webOS Audio Improvements in the Works?

Pretty much every webOS enthusiast is looking forward to improved audio support in webOS 2.0, by way of a microphone API to allow for audio recording and the apps that utilize it. Some folks are also hoping that HP and Palm one day produce devices (perhaps standalone media players) supporting HP’s Beats audio initiative, which provides outstanding audio fidelity in their line of notebooks and desktops. It looks...

Rahul Sood Hints at Future webOS Design Direction?

Precentral.net member “GodShapedHole” put two and two together nicely with a recent comment at the Precentral forums: I also liked what Mr. Sood said [in the most recent Precentral Palmcast] about that designer who he’s worked with now being on the Palm team – not because I know the designer, but because it satisfies a bit of curiosity: it’s quite likely that the Pre Pebble designer who...