Palm had its quarterly results conference call yesterday and although CEO Jon Rubinstein and CFO Doug Jeffries kept a pretty tight lid on the future product talk, they did say that licensing
webOS to third parties isn't "a religious issue for us." That's pretty vague, sure, but we can't help but immediately think back to the golden age of Palm OS, when licensees like Sony put out amazing devices like the Clie PEG-NZ90 that we've lovingly mocked up with a webOS screenshot above -- we're sure Palm's upcoming handsets will be interesting in their own right, but we'd love to see a manufacturer like HTC riff on webOS the way it's
tweaking Android. Of course, Jeffries also said Palm has "no plans at this time to even talk about" licensing, so this is all just a pipe dream for now, but let's not ruin the moment, okay? Hit the read link for the full call transcript.
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posted Jun 26th 2009 12:25PM
I say palm keeps it all to themselves. They lost out because their designs sucked in comparrison to sony (remember the palm s50 or whatever it was?). They should learn SOMETHING else from the iphone and just keep it under their lid and hire GOOD designers to make kick ass looking hardware - and GUI enhancements.
Of course, making hardware for both CDMA and GSM will, or can, put them ahead of the race for iphontasticness.
I agree, palm should make some kick as devices, I would like a pre style dual slider with a few color options. Hint Hint......
After spending a little time with Pre my Touch pro is jealous in many ways for instance it's user friendly and very responsive. I'm a geek so WinMob hang ups don't bother me so much but I'm getting sick of the lag just to do simple things like make a call. I'm rather impressed with the iPhone but absolutely have to have a physical keyboard.
You make me wanna pull out my old Clie. Still wish they made a phone version....they certainly schooled Palm on how to make a wicked PDA@
If there is one thing I am sure of is the Palm, Inc doe not make pretty phones. Sure they're functional, have great applications, and have a stable operating system, but pretty, NOPE! I suggest they either hire some Ex-Apple designers or subcontract the phone designs and focus on what they do best. I think the PRE looks like an egg that was flattened.