{"id":18425,"date":"2013-03-29T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=18425"},"modified":"2013-03-29T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:13:24","slug":"hps-pre-2-reappears-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/hps-pre-2-reappears-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"HP’s Pre 2 Reappears In The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

File this under unexpected. According to webOS Nation<\/em><\/a>, 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 4G world, which is a deal breaker for many at this point in the game. However, the no-contract cellphone market is largely a 3G one. At under a hundred dollars, the Pre 2 would certainly be a worthwhile purchase for anyone looking for\u00a0a robust (though dated) smartphone OS<\/p>\n

Enough people seem to agree, as the phone has already <\/span>sold out<\/a> online.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most interesting question is where these Pre 2s came from. WebOS hardware was shelved back in August of 2011. HP held a\u00a0fire-sale<\/span>\u00a0 during which the goal was to churn through all existing stock. It’s unlikely that HP decided to quietly start manufacturing Pres again. Have these been sitting in a warehouse somewhere, pre-sold to Verizon and languishing? If so, can we expect to see similar use of the likely countless Pre 2, Pre 3, and HP Veers that didn’t sell on AT&T? You can already get the low-powered Palm Pixi Plus from Best Buy<\/a>, unlocked, for $60. That’s not as good of a value, but a Veer would absolutely be worth that.<\/span><\/p>\n

A pity HP has no plans to upgrade these devices to open webOS. That’d be fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1917],"tags":[63,96,94,1168,2746,2046,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18435,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions\/18435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}