Gram, the new name of Palm

After HP Acquire Palm and changed his name to WebOS, Global Business Unit (GBU) under the company, Palm again changing. This time in the form of reincarnation brand name to "Gram".

The focus of the business is also changing from consumer devices to "software, user experience (UX), cloud, engineering, and partnering".

WebOS GBU is a business unit under the HP, but Gram will be made into a separate company, is wholly owned by HP but leaning seeking outside investment.

Still unclear what the product will be made by this company. About that, Martin, Chief of Staff of HP worried ordered the employees to shut up about the products that will be offered by Gram.

Palm was once a manufacturer of personal digital assistant devices (PDAs) are known through leading products such as the Palm Pilot and Palm Treo. WebOS is the operating system name of the device is made to replace an earlier version, Palm OS.

The company was acquired by HP in 2010. Mid-2011, HP stopping production of all webOS-based hardware devices, including smartphones and tablets

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HP Touchpad, WebOS with big screen

Finally, HP's entry into the tablet market. With the latest release tablet that is named HP Touchpad. The presence of these products increasingly fierce competition in the world confirms the tablet-not just from the product side, but from the side of the platform as well.

HP Touchpad will carry the operating system called WebOS. If you remember, WebOS is an operating system developed by Palm and is introduced through a mobile phone, Palm Pre and PalmPixi. However, since Palm bought HP last year, WebOS like missing. Well, this is the new touchpad, WebOS comes back.

From the screenshots shown HP, WebOS appearance relatively unchanged. On the front page there are the Quick Launch bar contains shortcuts to frequently used applications, such as web browsers, mail, instant messenger, and gallery. While the application is currently active and is in the background (WebOS already supports multitasking) is displayed in the form of "cards".

HP Touchpad itself has a size 9.7-inch screen with a resolution of 1024x768. These specifications are the same as Apple iPad, but not as high as Motorola Xoom which has a resolution of 1280x800. Processor using Qualcomm APQ8060 which is a two-core processor with a speed of 1.2 GHz. Touchpad itself is not a mobile device, because it only relies on WiFi as a connection to the internet. But HP promises Touchpad can synchronize to the device based smartphone WebOS.

Speaking of smartphones, at the same time HP also released two new smartphones based WebOS, namely Pre3 and Veer. HP Pre3 is a smartphone for the business segment that offers 3.58 inches and a physical keyboard. While HP Veer is a tiny device the size of the hand with a handful still has a physical keyboard.

HP TouchPad features and specs:

• HP webOS
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 242 mm x 13.7 mm (7.48 inches x 9.53 inches x .54 inches)
• Weight: approximately 740 g (1.6 pounds)
• Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-CPU APQ8060 1.2-GHz processor
• 9.7-inch diagonal XGA capacitive, multitouch screen with a vibrant, 18-bit color, 1,024 x 768 resolution display
• The option of either 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage
• High-performance browser with full access to the web, including support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta for access to rich, Flash-based web content
• Wireless connectivity:
  • Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication
  • A-GPS (3G only)
  • Bluetooth® wireless technology 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
• Multimedia options, including music, photos, video recording and playback, and a 3.5 mm headset/headphone/microphone jack
  • Internal stereo speakers and Beats Audio
  • Front-facing 1.3-megapixel webcam for live video calling
• Email, including EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers) and personal email support (Google Gmail push, Yahoo!, POP3, IMAP)
• Robust messaging support
• Light sensor, accelerometer, compass (magnetometer) and gyroscope
• Rechargeable 6,300 mAh (typical) battery
• Micro-USB (Charging and PC Connect) with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
• Built-in HP Touchstone technology for easy charging (HP Touchstone for TouchPad sold separately) and HP touch-to-share to share web addresses between TouchPad and compatible webOS phones

   

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HP Pre 3 webOS Smartphone, The Pre 2′s successor

Other Smartphones successor of Palm Pre 2, which was launched this HP comes with a platform other than webOS, recorded with some specifications such as WVGA touch screen is 3.6 inches with a resolution of 480x800 pixels and a slider QWERTY keyboard. For business pengabadi picture, HP Pre 3 has a 5 megapixel main camera with autofocus and LED flash. Also, supported a 1.3 megapixel secondary camera located on the front, which allows you to do video calling.

In order to best performance, HP Pre 3 also armed with 1.4GHz processor Snapdragon 8x55 and 512 MB of RAM memory. For storage media, HP Pre 3 comes with two options ie, 8GB or 16GB. As for business connectivity, the HP Pre 3 comes with facilities like Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and A-GPS module.

From its HP Pre 3 is similar to the HP Veer just bigger with Width 64mm (2:52 inches) Height: 111mm (4:37 inches) and Thickness: 16mm (0.63 inches) seems so bulky compared to the HP Veer, but of course will be convenient to use.

For information, HP Pre 3 originally was designed to be a dual mode phone. This means that this smartphone will be present as a mobile GSM / HSPA + and CDMA on-board. However, this smartphone is expected to be present with only GSM mode only.

Here's full specs of HP Pre 3:
- HP webOS
- 3.58-inch multitouch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color, 480x800 resolution WVGA display
- Slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard
- Qualcomm MSM 8x55 (1.4 GHz)
- Microsoft® Exchange email with Microsoft Direct Push Technology
- POP3/IMAP (Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, AOL, Hotmail®, etc.)
- Integrated IM, SMS, and MMS
- Built-in GPS
- 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash, HD (up to 720p) video recording, front VGA
- Mono speakerphone; dual-mic noise cancellation
- Accelerometer, ambient light, proximity, and compass
- Audio formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV
- Video formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264
- Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n 5GHz) with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication;
- Bluetooth® wireless technology 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support; A-GPS;
- Wi-Fi router functionality for up to five devices using HP mobile hotspot
- 512MB RAM; choose from 8GB or 16GB internal storage
- USB mass storage support
- Battery 1230 mAh
- Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
- 3.5mm stereo
- HP Touchstone Compatible
- Dimensions 64 x 111 x 16 mm (2.52 x 4.37 x 0.63  inches)
- Weight 156 grams (5.5 ounces)

    

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HP Veer, Smartphone Mini from 'HP-Palm'

Not only tablet that will launch the HP (Hewlett Packard), HP also will launch a new mobile phone which is a continuation series of Palm Pre 2 the first mobile phone released since HP's acquisition of Palm.

Mobile the smartphone category. Although many industries that emit the device with a large size, HP sure that the mini gadget will remain the trend. No wonder if smarpthone named HP Veer measuring only 3.25 inches.

HP Veer is a 3G smartphone with the power that comes with touch screen measuring 2.6 inches and supports display with a resolution of 320x400 pixels. Diusungnya operating system, of course, is WebOS. Sliding model with a QWERTY keypad. Although small, its features are not less bersaign with 8 GB memory, 800 MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, supports WiFi and HSPA+, as well as an accelerometer sensor, proximity, and light. This device can also function as a mobile hotspot.

Original size HP Veer is 54.5 mm x 84.0 mm x 15.1 mm and weighs only 103 grams and has supported the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta, wifi, GPS, and multimedia such as music player, video and 5 megapixel camera.


HP Veer features and specs

• HP webOS
• High-speed connectivity
• Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7230 800-MHz processor
• 2.57-inch multitouch screen with a vibrant, 18-bit color, 320 x 400 resolution display
• Dimensions: 54.5 mm x 84.0 mm x 15.1 mm (2.1 inches x 3.3 inches x 0.6 inches)
• Gesture area, which enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation
• Full slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• 8 GB of internal storage
• High-performance browser with full access to the web, including support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta for access to rich, Flash-based web content
• Wireless connectivity:
  • Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication
  • Integrated GPS
  • Bluetooth® wireless technology 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
  • Wi-Fi router functionality for up to five devices using HP mobile hotspot
• Multimedia options, including music, photos, video recording and playback, a 5-megapixel camera with geotagging and 3.5 mm stereo headphone adapter
• Email, including EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers) and personal email support (Google Gmail push, Yahoo!, POP3, IMAP)
• Robust messaging support (combining IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
• Proximity sensor, light sensor and accelerometer
• Rechargeable 910 mAh battery
• USB mass storage mode to transfer your media and other files quickly between desktop and device
• Ringer switch, which easily silences the ringer with one touch
• Compatible with HP Touchstone (sold separately)
• Tri-band UMTS, quad-band GSM/EDGE world phone
• Weight: 103 grams (3.6 ounces)

      

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PalmPad Topaz and Opal leaked, the first Tablet with WebOS

Since Hewlett Packard acquired Palm a year ago, Hewlett Packard (HP) plans to continue to develop a WebOS platform for computer products, tablets, and smartphones. However, until now not clear when HP will start out with WebOS products to market.

Some of rumors on the internet predicted that the first tablet-tech Palm would likely be introduced soon. Engadget technology blog site, named the two models designed tablet that deserves believed to HP. One of them with a 9 inch screen is called Topaz, while others with smaller screens only 7 inches is called Opal. Topaz apart with wider screen also features a front camera, a micro USB port at the bottom, and 1.2 GHz processor


It’s likely that both tablets will display 1024 x 768; will be supported by HP Beats audio; play Flash video and allow “true multi tasking which allows 20 apps to run simultaneously” and will have an inductive charger, which means it will charge in the way a cordless phone does – without a wire between the charger and the tablet. HP’s Palm tablet has a microUSB port and multiple speakers.

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HP launched the Palm Pre 2, with webOS.

Since buying Palm earlier this year, Hewlett Packard (HP) for the first time issued a new smartphone. Palm Pre 2, which was announced on Tuesday (19/10/2010), will use the operating system webOS 2.0, the latest version of the artificial Palm smartphone platform that was announced with the announcement of the launch of Palm's Pre 2.
In WebOS 2 was there a lot of improvement since the platform is launched, and took steps ahead with new features are more intense for a lot of things can be done with your webOS device, "said Jon Rubinstein, Palm's general manager, said in a statement.

This device has been equipped with 1 GHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera, scratch-resistant glass coating on the screen, and a combination of touch-screen navigation and a QWERTY keypad. Pre Palm available in CDMA version and a GSM / UMTS.

Here are the full specifications of the Palm Pre 2 :
Processor: 1 GHz
Operating system: webOS 2.0
Memory: 16GB internal
Camera: 5 megapixel with LED flash, geotagging, and video record
Connections: Wi-Fi 802.11b / g, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi tethering, USB 2.0
Screen: 3.1-inch multitouch HVGA with 24-bit color, 320x480 resolution
Email: Microsoft Exchange with Microsoft Direct Push Technology,
POP3/IMAP (Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL, Hotmail)
GPS
Sensors: Accelerometer, ambient light, and proximity
Battery: 5 hours talk time and 350 hours standby
Headphone: 3.5 mm stereo jack
Model: Slide with QWERTY keyboard
Size: 59.6 X100, 7 mm x 16.9 mm
Weight: 145 grams
Color: Black

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