Christmas Giveaway! Palm Pre 2 plus Accessories!

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The good people at Palm (err…HP) have sent us a Palm Pre 2 to give to one of our readers, something we are more than happy to do! The winner will receive a brand new Palm Pre 2, a touchstone charger and a very nice leather case. Be sure to follow our Palm Pre 2 [...]

HP Decides Against Building Windows Phone 7 Devices

HP has been the focus of a lot of talk since they purchased Palm a short while ago. As we reported the other day, they are still working on their tablets and plan to offer a consumer version running Palm’s WebOS and a business version running Windows 7. Hp is now saying that they will [...]

HP Confirms Both Windows and WebOS Tablets Coming

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HP has confirmed that they plan to release separate tablets running Windows and WebOS. The Windows based tablets will be focused as a business device. It’s expected to have an 8.9 inch screen with video and still cameras, 1GB of memory, and support for an electronic pen for writing and drawing with. I imagine that [...]

Carrypad Reviews the Android Based Compaq Airlife 100 Netbook

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“…The design of the Airlife 100 is nice. Good clean lines, a light, 1KG, weight, large and quiet keyboard, good plastics and silent operation leave a good impression. There’s only one design fault of significance and that’s the screen angle. It simply doesn’t open up far enough and you end up with the screen pointing [...]

How to Hard Reset the iPAQ Glisten

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The iPAQ Glisten is HP’s latest Smartphone device. It’s powered by Windows Phone 6.5 and features a front facing keyboard and styling that resembles RIM’s BlackBerry devices. If you’ve just picked up this device off ebay, or perhaps you’re getting ready to sell it on ebay, or worse – it just freezes and you can’t [...]

HP Android Netbook Becomes Compaq Airlife and Starts Shipping

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Back at CES 2010, I met up with HP who was showing off a cool little Android netbook that they would only refer to as a “technology demo”. The netbook featured everything you would expect and want to see on a device like this including a Snapdragon processor with a solid state drive. In fact [...]

HP Announces Intent to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion

HP announced today that they have entered into an agreement to purchase Palm, pending regulatory approval. The deal is valued at approximately $1.2 billion and has been approved by both Palm and HP boards of directors and is expected to close in HP’s 3rd quarter ending in July 2010. While this sounds like a great [...]

CES: HP’s Android Technology Demo

HP does have much of a presence at CES this year, but they are at ShowStoppers and Digital Experience. One of the things that they were showing off is a “Technology Demo” of Google’s Android OS running on an ultra slim netbook style device.  HP wouldn’t say much about what’s under the hood on this [...]

The New HP iPAQ Voice Messenger Smartphone – Take 2

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Jack Cook posted about a new voice messenger device from HP earlier today. What’s interesting to me, is that HP might have learned from their past mistakes on this device. The original Voice Messenger device from HP was a horrible unit with poor screen, low memory, and no real appeal or wow factor to speak [...]

Is The HP iPAQ 510 Really A Top Rated Smartphone?

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According to Expansys, the HP iPAQ 510 is among the 3 top rated Windows Mobile Smartphones on their site. The other 2, in case you’re wondering, are the Samsung BlackJack II and the Palm Treo 500v. I have no problems with the other two devices, they are both very nice handsets – yes, even the [...]