Crazy for the Palm Pre

TechWeekEurope UK Rubinstein Departure Hits Final Nail In HP webOS Coffin TechWeekEurope UK Once an Apple executive who helped shepherd the iMac and iPod to production, Rubinstein later became CEO of Palm and launched the Pre , a smartphone running the webOS mobile operating system. Despite some early hopes that the Pre would challenge the … and more

Mobile Burn Rubinstein Departure Final Nail in HP webOS Coffin eWeek Once an Apple executive who helped shepherd the iMac and iPod to production, Rubinstein later became CEO of Palm and launched the Pre , a smartphone running the webOS mobile operating system.

Mobile Burn Former Palm boss Jon Rubinstein makes his exit from HP Mobile Burn During his tenure as CEO at Palm, Rubinstein oversaw the transition away from Palm's old platform and the development of the new webOS smartphone platform. After releasing the Palm Pre and Pixi (and variants) in 2009, Palm was eventually purchased by … Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein leaves HP BGR Palms Down: Mobile Hardware Guru Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP Wired News (blog) With webOS put out to pasture, Jon Rubinstein exits HP GigaOm The Mac Observer

Editorial: Ten Things HP Can Do (Quickly) To Reboot webOS PhoneNews.com When Jon Rubinstein said the Palm Pre , Pixi, Pre Plus, and Pixi Plus were getting webOS 2, we hailed it as important in the firmware wars. It meant that HP was going to compete with Apple, not just on features, but on customer service.

HP to keep PC business, future of webOS still uncertain Apple Insider The meltdown of HP over the last year has left Rubinstein, his webOS and the Pre smartphones and TouchPad tablet products he managed at Palm up in the air, particularly after Apotheker pulled the plug on webOS hardware and left its future in doubt as … and more

HP's TouchPad, WebOS killed — and Apple is the main suspect Chicago Sun-Times 9, 2011 file photo, Todd Bradley, right, Hewlett Packard Executive Vice President Personal Systems Group, right, and Jon Rubinstein, left, Palm Senior Vice President and General Manager, hold, from left, a Palm Veer, a Palm Pre 3, and an HP TouchPad …

Irish Times Canceled: HP kills TouchPad, webOS, Palm Pre , Jon Rubinstein's future Beatweek Magazine Eventually Palm went up for sale, and Hewlett Packard scooped it up. The Palm Pre became the HP Pre, and a webOS-based tablet called the TouchPad was added to the mix. Nevermind that the TouchPad was such a blatant hardware ripoff of the iPad design …

Sydney Morning Herald (blog) Busted: HP kills PCs, webOS, Palm Pre , TouchPad, Rubinstein's dream Beatweek Magazine Eventually Palm went up for sale, and Hewlett Packard scooped it up. The Palm Pre became the HP Pre, and a webOS-based tablet called the TouchPad was added to the mix. Nevermind that the TouchPad was such a blatant hardware ripoff of the iPad design ..

International Business Times DOA: HP TouchPad dies webOS death before Apple's lawyers can kill it Beatweek Magazine HP acquired the webOS touchscreen operating system (along with former Apple honcho Jon Rubinstein) when it bought dying Palm, but while that came with some existing Palm Pre phone designs, there was no tablet blueprint.

Gotta Be Mobile Exclusive: Pre 3 not coming to Sprint This Is My Next Just two years after launching the original Palm Pre as a major exclusive that Jon Rubinstein called “the coming out party for a new Sprint,” it sounds like the Now Network is done with webOS: a trusted source tells us that the Pre 3 won't be coming to … HP Pre 3 Not Launching on Sprint

Sify HP shows first webOS tablet computer, the TouchPad Sify Jon Rubinstein, head of HP's Palm unit, showed off the TouchPad at a media event in San Francisco.

ZDNet UK HP reveals new tablet computer News & Observer The TouchPad will run the same webOS operating software as Palm's Pre and Pixi smart phones.

If you just can’t think beyond next week and need to get your new Pre fix as soon as possible, HP’s got you covered. As promised by Jon Rubinstein yesterday, the Pre 2 ( sans the lovely Palm branding) is today available to pre-order at $100 on a two-year Verizon contract. Unsubsidized and contractually liberated pricing is $450.

Jon Rubinstein, the head of HP’s mobile division and former CEO of Palm Inc., has some bad news for most users of his company’s smartphones: the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi, and the Plus versions of both, will not be updated to webOS 2.0.

Those of you who decided to invest early in a webOS device are unfortunately going to have to upgrade your hardware if you want to take advantage of webOS 2.0. While late last year HP said that webOS 2.0 would be coming to all Palm devices, Jon Rubinstein has now admitted that is no longer the