Unless you live under a rock you already know that Palm has became a division of HP, long stories have been written and told about this situation. Palm now has at his reach deep pockets and HP now has a true player to enter the mobile market again...
We can't deny that Palm was in a accord position. The Pre is a very good phone, I love it but against it's new rivals a new powerful hardware is required. Palm spent most of his money developing Pixie, Pre Plus and more importantly WebOS. I still believe that WebOS is far more advanced that it's rivals, just to quote a few advantages:
It has true multitasking
There is no need of Jail-breaking, the system is open
The developer system is incredible (low quotes and easy to develop)
What do we need? A new an improved hardware, with a fancy 1 ghz CPU, a powerful GPU and awesome design with better materials (metal, glass whatever but not cheap plastics). We also need larger battery and a really push for WebOS apps (but it seems that already it's on the way).
Hopefully, HP has confirmed that new smartphones are on the way and tablets... Oh Yeah! I have a lot of faith on the future slate. WebOS has lots of potential and can't wait for wait it's coming: an awesome OS and the global capabilities of HP. I think is a win win.