Pre – Techcitement*

HP’s Pre 2 Reappears In The Wild

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:13:24 +0000

File this under unexpected. According to webOS Nation, Best Buy has begun selling HP’s short-lived Pre 2 as a pay-as-you-go phone for Verizon. It appears that for a mere $45 to 55, you can nail a bit of smartphone history at no contract charge. The Pre 2 is very much a 3G phone in a […]

When Choosing A New Phone, What’s A WebOS User To Do?

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:45:13 +0000

I’m a diehard webOS user. My TouchPad is my daily workhorse, and I love the thing. Until a few weeks ago, I was still using my Palm Pre+ (hacked to run on Sprint). However, a recent contract change added Sprint’s $10 data access fee. As much as I love my Pre, I am not not […]

New York Times Article On WebOS Fails Almost As Badly As WebOS

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:27:57 +0000

I really don’t want to become That Guy — the kind of guy who rails on and on about the superiority of his niche or failed tech (see: Betamax, DiVX disks, Newton PDAs, etc). But it’s hard to keep from doing that after reading the article titled “In Flop of H.P. TouchPad, an Object Lesson […]

Techcitement Review: A webOS User Tries Out Windows Phone 7.5 With Mango

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:59:25 +0000

This is a follow-up of sorts to my previous article, “Tasting Gingerbread: A WebOS User Dabbles In The Android Waters”. I’m still using a Palm Pre+ hacked to run on Sprint, but I know this can’t last forever. With webOS’s uncertain future almost certainly not including phones, I’ve continued to look elsewhere. That’s why when […]

Voice of Objectivity: WebOS Isn’t Dead Yet

Yoni Gross — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:00:34 +0000

In the wake of HP’s announcement last week that they were discontinuing WebOS hardware, the tech world has been quick to pronounce the death of the late Palm’s mobile platform. This is, after all, its second fatal blow in as many years. HP wasn’t ready to announce any hardware partners they were licensing WebOS to. […]

HP Selling Phones For Cheap – Why You Should Buy

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:23:49 +0000

HP’s slashing the price of their end-of-lifed TouchPad (and giving price adjustments to those who already bought it) has been quite the news story this week. New WebOS users managed to take down perennial WebOS enthusiast site Precentral for a bit yesterday, and any site listed in the massive Slickdeals thread tends to get overrun […]

Tablet Thursday Digest: Android And iOS And WebOS, Oh My!

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:46:37 +0000

Another busy week for tablets, as the market segment just keeps heating up. From the industry leader at the moment, we have some great news. Apple’s iCloud and iWork with Cloud Support have gone into Beta for developers. No news on how magical it might be just yet. Then there was Monday’s release, pull, […]

Techcitement Review: Wrapsol “Ultra Drop + Scratch protection”

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:59:21 +0000

I know, screen protectors are a pretty basic accessory, and hardly seems like something to get techcited about. Frankly, most of the ones I’ve tried have been junk. Add to that the fact that my main phone is a Palm Pre (stop pointing and laughing! It’ll take over any day now.), there are few screen […]