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GSM Pre 2 Will Be Available Carrier-Unlocked Directly From HP (Also Gorilla Glass Confirmed!)

By: , 10/30/2010 3:34 am | 13 comments

Phew the news just keeps on coming! Tim Pettitt, Senior Product Manager at HP Palm is here to confirm that the glass screen on the Pre 2 is in fact Gorilla Glass. He also gives us a great sneak peak at the hardware and reiterates the fact that the new keyboard now has “a definite click”.  He goes into a little detail about the camera, describing how HP Palm have tried hard to get the right balance between great quality photos and fast, snappy shutter speed, commenting in particular on extended depth of field and good white balance. We’re pleased to hear him mention that the 5MP camera can easily manage one picture per second.

The other exciting news is that the Palm Pre 2 will be available to purchase (for consumers, not just developers) directly from HP – bypassing the carriers altogether. This is really great news if you like to buy your devices in a handset-only manner and it bodes well for those of us living outside the US also. Thanks for the tip, @Benfysh!

Check out the great video below, courtesy of MarkGuim.tv:

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  • http://twitter.com/Cringer63 Jonathan

    I still don’t believe it. ;)

    • http://twitter.com/errade errade

      Hehe, the day you announce you believe in the Gorilla Glass I will post a special news article especially for you :P

  • http://twitter.com/Cyruss1989 Max A.

    Hope this applies to adapted local Pre2′s aswell. Why do us Germans need to use üäö and ß oO? ;)

  • http://twitter.com/dvdmon Levi Wallach

    If only there was an unlocked CDMA equivelent so us miserable Sprint users could use it! :P

    • DigitalYout

      +10 on that Levi

  • http://anotherguy.us/ Tim Stiffler-Dean

    So… are you guys using Open Search so that webOSroundup can be added to Just Type? ;)

    [I ask cause Tim mentioned it in the video]

  • Captain Obvious

    unlocked gsm directly from hp=brilliant move.

  • http://www.promptdesigns.com Rom

    awesome! If it’s along $400 to $500 I’ll consider!

  • Anonymous

    if they could get the unlocked version under 500$, i believe they could start to grow some market share.

  • Kallisti

    Hope to be able to get it in Sweden…

  • http://openid.glr.ch/rgloor rgloor

    Hope to be able to get it in Switzerland too… ;-)

  • Webos2 0

    hope to be able to get CDMA in California

  • http://twitter.com/domicius Dom Delimar

    Great news that it will now be a lot easier for the rest of the world to get these devices (not that it was impossible so far, with unlocked GSM devices selling in Germany but this is a lot lot better & easier for many more people) but what I hope this means is this will be the end of geo-filtering in App Catalog once and for all. Also, hopefully, geo-filtering stops with webOS 2.0 even on older devices.