http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/ Engadget Comments for Who should buy Palm? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/This.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
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HTC has a track record of buying companies and letting them be themselves with very little interference while fully leveraging their core strengths (Think One & Co). It would be great to see Palm purchased by HTC.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
I think Palm and Web OS should just die out already... Addition of another mobile platform to this crowded market is just plain stupid... Though right now I think HTC, RIM or Lenovo are the most likely candidates to buy Palm and they are not in it for Web OS, but for the numerous patents Palm owns. ]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
+1 for a poll

As much as I like HTC hardware with Android, there's a part of me that wonders how awesome HTC hardware with WebOS would be :D

Also, there's that whole patents thing, you know, about Palm having them. Lots of them.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
Yep, HTC by a mile. But wouldn't that be quite a blow to Android? It seems like it would be.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Not only would HTC would be the best but doing so would produce a most unique company if it maintains its portfolio of phones/OS. It would represent a fundamental change in the way we buy a smartphone. Generally, users pick their OS and then pick the best hardware they can afford. However, with HTC one could choose both hardware and software completely independently. Basically pick your design/spec sheet and then choose between Android, WebOS or WinPhone7.
Just imagine the possibilities!]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Maybe but remember that HTC makes Windows phones. What would be nice for some Palm patents for HTC mind. But imagine they bring out these phones and you get to chose the OS as your ordering.]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Woot! +1 for the engadget option!]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
Any HTC made phone, whether WP7, Android or HTC WebOS would be covered by HTCs newly acquired patents, which would put a damper on the legal machinations of Cupertino's lawyers. :)]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/-1 for no "Lord Vader" option.]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
But we can dream, can't we. Steve giving his next beat down with all of these clowns in one room at one time. And let's not forget to add Roger "No one will be using an iPhone post-Pre launch" McNamee to the party.

This and Adobe wanting another $800 bucks to upgrade to CS5 all in one day. Sorry clowns, I spent all my upgrade cash on an iPad.]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
Why, so you can continue to shit all over Sprint and just leave WebOS off of CDMA devices all together? HELL, NO.]]>Apr 12th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
That would be cool. But I would miss my apps....]]>Apr 12th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
You are very misinformed. Have you even used one or even watched a video? Scrolling is the same as the iphone, you drag your finger across the screen. The gesture area is for navigation, App menu, and other advanced functions.]]>Apr 12th 2010 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
However, assume for a moment none of that is true and HTC buys Palm to make WebOS devices. What do you think will happen to their WM and Android offerings? You think they will allow them to eat sales of WebOS devices that will cost them as a company significantly more to develop?

The move just doesn't seem to make a whole lot of business sense for HTC. It makes much more sense for RIM, Apple, Microsoft, or Google to buy them up and wind down WebOS, saving only bits and pieces. The only reason I could see HTC buying Palm is for the name.]]>Apr 12th 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
I wish you could go online and build your own phone a la carte. You choose the carrier. You choose the hardware and the OS and then It's sent to your door.

I would love a choice between Android, WM7, WebOS. Someone make it happen!]]>Apr 12th 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/HTC or Google can make good use of palm software and PATENTS]]>Apr 12th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Some reasons HTC would acquire Palm here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-rumored-to-be-interested-in-palm-2010-4

Basically, as a defense against Apple's suit, Palm's brand, the people, and Palm is cheap. Note, no one, except gadgetheads think it is for WebOS. Also, even though Palm is "cheap" at about $1 bln, it would still eat half of HTC's cash.

I think the reality is that WebOS is dead.]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
I think with Sense digging so deeply into both Android and WinMo 6.5, HTC is already in the software business. With Microsoft no longer allowing any skinning of WP7 and basically dictating the hardware requirements you'll be left with few ways with which to distinguish yourself as a handset maker. They'll continue working with Microsoft to release WP7 devices, but they won't be as special as when you could kind of take a different track with them.

Android will still offer a fairly open spec sheet of course between the upcoming Evo 4G and the Galaxy S, HTC and Samsung have pretty much cornered the market on "Awesome!"

Obviously, the purchase of Palm offers the big patent portfolio and litigation protection, but also, WebOS would give them something that doesn't belong to everyone else.There are a lot of WebOS fans and possibly others on the fence due to the current state of Palm. ]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
I like the Blackberry-style form factor, large portrait keyboard (NOT a slider, though) and touchscreen.

Basically, the Pixi... but good.]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/
Hell YEAH!!

HTC SHOULD buy Palm so stage by stage and across time they can just conveniently forget to include drivers for each component in the Palm phone until its a hollow shell of a device.]]>Apr 12th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/HTC and Palm hooking up would mean beautiful babies and a great OS, coz lets face it - Android is good, but webOS blows it out of the water.]]>Apr 13th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 13th 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/who-should-buy-palm/Apr 12th 2010 11:37AM