Imagine you’re listening to music on your webOS device equipped with high-end sound components by Beats. Now start smiling. Now bounce. See how nice that feels? Ever since HP released Beats technology into their Envy line of laptops, we’ve been salivating at the thought of the same technology existing in our mobile devices… you know, the things we carry around with us daily? Well, the folks over at Billboard had the same thought and posed the question to Carlos Montalvo, VP of Program Innovation Office in HP’s Personal Systems Group:

“HP has bought mobile device maker Palm and mobile music service Melodeo. Do you expect to expand your Beats and music initiatives to mobile devices?”

Montalvo of course was mum on the subject of upcoming devices, but he made a point to opine that “today, mobile fidelity is not being met by the current range of products.” He also adds: “we think there’s a great opportunity to leverage everything we’ve learned on the PC for other consumer electronic devices… There will be more announcements in the future of where we go with that, but obviously music is an integral part of any music experience.” … Fun stuff. Will it happen on a tablet? Heck, almost their entire line of TouchSmart computers have Beats, so it stands to reason that we could see it. … webOS phones?? Let’s keep our fingers crossed. (P.S. We know this would apply to future webOS phones. Please forgive the creative license – or lack therof – that we took with the 1st gen Pre!)

[Source: Billboard.biz]

If you’re looking for the best place to buy webOS smartphones, HP Wireless Central gets our vote. Why? Because phones on every major U.S. carrier have got crazy deals and incentives on them:

• Verizon and AT&T Pre Plus is FREE (new activation), with a free Touchstone
• Verizon Pixi Plus is FREE (new activation), with a $50 gift card
• Sprint Palm Pre is FREE (new activation), with a $50 gift card
• Sprint Palm Pixi is $19.99 for new or current customers (Note: we just tested this and the price on a contract extension says FREE with a $50 gift card! Huh?)

No doubt, HP is doing their best to move these phones… could it be because next generation hardware is just around the corner??? We sure hope so!

[Source: HP Wireless Central]

So there we were, eating our Corn Flakes and mindin’ our own business… just another slow news day.  Then WHAMMO! We get some hot webOS 2.0 action.

So what did we learn? Well, first we learned that if you are in the early access program (and if you are a dev why aren’t you?!), then you will get a beta of the new webOS 2.0 SDK. You know what this means right? Some sweet new homebrew! Homebrew is where people play around with features and such that aren’t available on public SDKs. Now there is a TON of stuff not in a public SDK so it should be an interesting few months.

Ok, so lets get down to the nitty gritty shall we?

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Hey, just wanted to let everyone know that I (David) will be interviewed Monday (8/30) by our friends over at Twintrview.com.

Twintrview is run by our friend and contributor Tim Stiffler-Dean. It is a cool site that interviews cool people over twitter (well…most of the time, he is slumming it a bit with yours truly).

Not sure of the time, but I will tweet about it when it is official. You can also join in on the conversation if you want over on their home page.

Should be fun. Would love to “see” you all there.

So this week the biggest game on the mobile planet made its way to little ole webOS (before Android, to boot!). With all the hype surrounding it you would think that the little birds were the C40.

Alas… they aren’t a new phone, but they sure will make playing with the old one an absolute blast. Simply put, Angry Birds is the most fun you can have on a Pre (and later a Pixi), but before I start gushing too much (that will come later), lets start at the beginning.

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