Verizon Palm Pre Plus Drops Below $30

Is there no jailbreak for Pre, or can't it get around that activation?

hkkklife: the only place Palm still has 'brand loyalty' is on the this site with the few remaining bloggers....HP may use 'Palm powered' on the backs of their new iPaq devices but that's about it IMO.

I would bet the farm on anything coming out of hp will not have a Palm or WebOS decal on it. HP is hp and no one else is going to get the credit.
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I just hope HP takes webOS (or whatever they end up calling it) and makes it off-cloud like Palm OS so I can get a phone that syncs with Outlook running on my desktop. Garnet-quality PIMs would be nice too. Otherwise, I'll stick to my Centro until it dies.

Exactly.

And I hope they will provide users with: easy tools to remotely sync with their own home computers/servers, SD card slots for easy on-device expansion/backup/recovery, a COMPLETE software bundle including TealLock-quality phone security application, MS Office compatibility, remote device locking/wiping/tracking, solid multimedia applications, bulletproof email with easy MS Exchange (and Blackberry - dream on) integration, high quality + reliable hardware and better-than-Garnet PIM.

I have my Sprint Centro 2, all my apps and registration codes backed up, and another brand new Centro 2 stored away. I'll try out the HTC EVO and iPhone 4G and see if they relegate the Centro to PDA-only duty. Either way, I'm not planning to rely on whatever happens in this latest chapter of the Palm drama (tragedy?).

FJH

Slay? Lol - well we will see how HP bungles things soon enough!

for the billions M$ spends on research, they sure don't have much to show for it on the hardware side at least.

MS needs to stick to software. That is were their niche is. Even sometimes they screw that up but with a couple patches and updates they luck out. For all the geniuses they have I sometimes wonder what they all were thinking about. There has been a lot of wasted money spent on research at MS that they never saw a ROI.
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We use M$ at work primarily for Outlook integration and certain apps like AutoCAD but Apple at home. The transition to an Apple environment from M$ is no sweat and I will shift 100% to Apple at some point soon when I no longer need the work apps (retirement). I think most consumers would make the transition w/o any problems or regrets (my wife complained like crazy when she needed to use my Toshiba while we travel so she now carries a Macbook!).

The crazy thing is that afterover 20 YEARS of dominating the world computer industry, Microsoft could be made irrelevant within 2 years if Apple, Google and HP execute effectively with their mobile OS strategies. Microsoft has become too big, too bureaucratized and just plain dinosaur-like. They need to start taking chances and growing Microsoft in new directions if they hope to remain relevant in the next decade.

Apple was near death and reinvented itself with the iPod, then the brilliant iPhone and now are more a mobile phone/electronics company than they are a computer company. If the iPad builds on that, Apple may be able to leverage the iPhoneOS success to make Apple a serious threat to Microsoft Windows. Microsoft needs to get hardware as stylish and as functional as Apple's out ASAP, before people start asking, "Microsoft who?". It's ironic that Bill Gates himself has talked in the past about how companies that fail to continue running scared and innovating will quickly fall by the wayside.

Buying successful companies like Danger and then destroying their products is not a good strategy. Palm showed us all where this can lead. Microsoft needs to focus on doing thing like making Windows Mobile 7 the best mobile OS available, making XBox the premiere gaming platform, making handwriting and speech recognition reliable and commonplace options for data entry and bringing revolutionary form factors like the Courier project to the market. Once they refine their focus they can press their advantages (inertia, familiarity, installed user base) to lock up every niche market like sales, real estate, health care, education, publishing, etc. Perfecting voice recognition would be a quick way to show off the advantages of Windows over other platforms. But if Microsoft waits too long other platforms will figure out how to use competing software to make every Windows feature redundant. It's already happening with iPhone and if Apple was to add near-perfect voice recognition and a few more features like front-facing camera + 4G to the iPad Microsoft may find its non-business sales drying up overnight.

FJH