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Palm-branded Smartphones Could Return This Year (techcrunch.com)
Palm's smartphone return appears to still be on track for 2018. From a report: Last year, an executive at TCL confirmed that the dearly departed mobile brand would be making a comeback as part of the smartphone conglomerate's portfolio, and with a little under five months left in the year, the 'PVG100' has hit the FCC and WiFi alliance. The handset was spotted by Android Police, but we don't really have much more to go on than a name and a couple of WiFi bands. As the site notes, however, the absence of 5GHz support leads one to surmise that this won't exactly be a barn-burning flagship. The handset also looks to be running Android 8.1 -- not really a surprise, given that Android Pie is still limited to Pixel and a smattering of other devices.
The PalmOS and WebOS were the leading mobile OS's many of its aspects are still in Android and iOS today.
The problem with WebOS wasn't WebOS but the fighting with Apple with its hacked iTunes support, back in the days where the iPod was still king, and iTunes was the best place to get music. Palm hired a bunch of Ex Apple Engineers to hack their phones to look like an iPod so it can sync with iTunes. Causing Apple to block the hack for Palm to make a new one.
What this did with Customers is giving them a feature that didn't work consistently. And failed to differentiate WebOS from just an iPhone wannabe.
What made Android so popular is that it didn't try to be an iPhone but not by Apple, but a different type of device. And a different experience. Sure they may trade some features with Apple and Android but they are very different systems.
WebOS was poorly marketed as an iPhone with Beta features that havn't been fully thought out.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Really? I can't see it selling much maybe just people buying them for the nostalgic factor,
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WebOS is gone.
It has been out of commission for about a decade now. It will take a lot of R&D to bring it back to modern standards.
The mobile war is done. The OS winners are Android and iOS.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Their 'task manager' to do list was fantastic. I wish there was something as simple and powerful. You could make unordered lists so easily and sort them by priority. It was wonderful.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
TCL has burned a number of own smartphone brands, and threw them out.
TCL has burned the Alcatel brand, and threw it out.
Now they will do the same with Palm