So far, information leaking out of Palm pointed at – um – conventional things shipping with webOS 2.0.
Precentral now reports something different:
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The phone is codenamed ‘mansion.’ It is to have a 800×480 screen and it will not have a physical keyboard – a design decision that’s very interesting given that we assumed that virtual keyboard code buried in webOS 2.0 was meant for the PalmPad.
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Given that Palm hasn’t done an all-touch device since the Z22, I am interested to see what will become of the project. Keep in mind that HP used to do all-touch smartphones in the past, but then started to deploy all kinds of weird keyboards.
Even though professional users tend to prefer keyboards, there obviously also is the prosumer market – let’s see how it all plays out…
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