Palm's next WebOS phone leaked, plus Pure Digital updates...

It's scarcely a few hours since we heard about Palm's rumored Eos smartphone, which looks to fall in line with the Centro, but since then we've had a few hours to process its potential impact, and we brought in Brian Heater from PC Mag and Stuart Miles from Pocket Lint to talk about the potential impact. The takeaways? Brian thinks it could be a compelling device, and more to the point we don't have enough info to know it's true impact, but at least Palm seems to be releasing significant devices at last. Stuart's take pegs the Eos to the potential Pay-As-You-Go market, and thinks a dual market strategy might be one that works for Palm. I'm still cautious about the validity, though I trust Engadget's specs, but if Palm pulls off the platform play, it'll be good for everyone, including consumers.

Also, the next iteration of the Flip hit store shelves today, and this new model is a replacement to the older Ultra, but still is less pricey than the MinoHD. Brian points while it's nice that it shoots in HD, it's missing some basic features (like shooting in SD, for instance) but it's still an attractive offering. Stuart concurs, and says the more competiton in the space the merrier, plus the addition of the HDMI port makes it one up some of the other competitors in the space. I'm still waiting for Cisco's acquisition of Pure Digital to take effect, and have Cisco add WiFi synching capabilities. Here's hoping, anyway.

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• palm
• webos
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• digital
• cisco
• flip
• ultrahd