

Lenovo considering purchase







Palm may also simply choose to continue as an independent company. 



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Palm hardware sucks - this is why it doesn't sell
By jameskatt on 4/23/2010 11:39:17 AM , Rating: 2
Palm hardware sucks. This is why it doesn't sell.

I think Palm has to do some things:

1. Recruit HTC to make Palm hardware for it - essentially rebrand HTC's cell phones like Google and Microsoft do. This way, Palm doesn't have to do its own hardware. This way, Palm can keep up with Microsoft and Google.

2. Install the WebOS on these phones.

3. Create a developer SDK that can do native apps. The lack of apps is killing Palm. Get Adobe to create app creation tools for it. Sure, Flash apps suck and are generic. But having no apps is worse of all.

This may give Palm a chance in the world.

Of course, I'll upgrade to an iPhone 4G.

By retrospooty on 4/23/2010 12:51:49 PM , Rating: 2
HTC has been making Palms products for well over 5 years. I know for a fact all Treo's since the 650 came from HTC.

Palm has no chance as Palm. They need to be bought out by a company that can move faster on multiple fronts. They just arent built to be able to compete in todays tech economy.

Considering Lenovo bought the industry standard thinkpad laptop and desktop line from IBM and kept it going with not only keeping the high quality but improving upon it, I welcome Lenovo's purchase and hope it happens. This way Web OS will live on and hopefully better hardware options in the future.

By omnicronx on 4/23/2010 3:58:03 PM , Rating: 2
1. HTC has made Palm hardware in the past, still did no help them.(made a lot of palm phones before the pre was released)

2. Would be nice, but they have not faired too badly with WinMo and Android and have a lot invested in the two.

3. Like the Palm PDK? If you've ever looked on the app store, they 3D games there (many of which are basically the same as iPhone versions) are written using the Palm PDK, compiled to native c/c++ code using opengl. The PDK is already publically available , and will soon allow public app submissions.(well from the non big players at least, the big players have had access to the PDK for a while)

