HP yesterday announced plans to lay off 275 webOS team members, mostly engineers. The move comes as HP cuts costs after posting extremely poor financial numbers last quarter, and faces further financial troubles ahead of the launches of Windows 8, and an unclear future for webOS in the device market.
But you don’t care about that, you care about that we’re giving away a Palm leather case for your Palm Pre! We’re trying to make the best of a bad situation, because we like webOS… and we don’t like when HP cites the realities of an open-source project… as the explanation for drastic cuts. Seriously, Open webOS has a lot of promise and less employees working on it means more challenges for HP to make webOS a success.
Anyways, to enter, just post a comment. We’ll ship the HP/Palm leather case, form-fitted for the Pre, Pre Plus, and Pre 2 models as soon as we pick a winner. To cut costs on shipping, you’ll just be getting the case, no classic, signature Palm packaging included. Contest ends tomorrow, March 1, at 6:00 AM Pacific.
Legalese (also known as Giveaway Terms): Giveaway open to residents of the United States 18 years or older. Sorry, the lawyers said so, we don’t like it either… Entries will be randomly selected from the comments posted, and the winner will be contacted by email. Odds of winning are based on the number of entries.
Thanks for the giveaway even though it is in light of a sucky matter!
the problem I see appears to be endemic at HP. Let’s announce a product in January with a lot of fanfare and introduce it 7 months later whilst other manufactures fly by. Now we announce open source in January and release in Sept. Watch as others fly by. They will make decisions before then. Shame. I am using a pre ( not plus ) and a touchpad. I have 3 daughters using Pixi plus. Amongst much ridicule . Our family are webOS fanatics. I worry about our hardware wearing out as we wait for a manufacturer to pick up webOS
I’d love to have a case!
Bring it on. My wife would love this case for her palm pre. Its her favorite phone. She chose the pre over android due to the ease of it plus how easy it is to “root” it. Hope I win. Thanks phonenews!
Hope someone takes the WebOS torch. Would love to see this superior platform get some traction.
I am a huge webos fan. I bought the original Pre on Sprint, switched to Verizon for the plus and now I’m in the process of purchasing the Pre2. I also have the TouchPad, which is awesome. This case would be perfect.
Thanks so much. I was just in a civilized debate with my best friend over WebOS and another OS platfom.
I would love to win it!
It would be so cool to have it.
Have palm pre plus for sale. Has caused me nothing but GRIEF!