When Hewlett-Packard announced plans to purchase ailing Palm for $1.2 billion on April 28, it was not interested in the Palm Smartphones alone.  The main motovation is the WebOS technology.

When HP finalized its purchase of Palm on July 1, it confirmed plans to produce a WebOS tablet, as well as smartphones and netbooks, but it did not announce a timetable for doing so.

Recently, HP filed a trademark application to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  It is seeking to trademark the name “PalmPad” for computer hardware and mobile device.  The tablet is expected to compete directly with the Apple iPad and will include touchscreen capabilities and other features, according to industry experts.

HP had shown a tablet called the Slate at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but the Slate ran on Windows 7.  It is probably developing tabelets running in both Windows and WebOS.

Rumor has speculated that “PalmPad” may become available by the end of the year.  I can’t wait to see more competition in the tablet market.

Google Nexus One by HTC is put to pasture.

Google first announced at the beginning of the year that it would be shaking up the tight grip that cell phone carriers had on customers by offering us the chance to buy it direct from them, unlocked and unsubsidized.

Fast forward 6 months and that didn’t go quite as planned with Google now in the final clearance stages of shifting the last few boxes.

Some carriers will continue to sell the Nexus One overseas, but US consumers will be out of luck.

Now it’s back to the carrier-controlled model of phone design and distribution.  Do you think that’s ever going to change in this country?

How do you locate yourself without GPS?  You use cell phone towers.

Research in Motion, the maker of Blackberry Smartphones, is employing cell-tower triangulation in its Locate Service for the Application Platform, and the new Geolocation service promises to provide better GPS-type services for customer.

Imagine if you are indoor without GPS signal, your Blackberry Apps is still able to guide you to restaurants or any points of interest (POI).  Although the Geolocation service is less accurate than GPS, it provides a quicker location fix.  Typically, it takes 30 seconds to 1 minute for GPS lock.  GPS also drains the phone battery too.

This service provides App developers a trade-off choice between speed, accuracy and power consumption.

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