It seems that, despite the success of the Palm Pre and its web OS sister the Palm Pixi, Palms lack of hype has let the company down. With rumours all month of Palm being up for sale, there was a list of companies as long as your arm that were rumoured to be thinking about buying out the company.
Amongst these were; Nokia (who are really in need of a decent OS as Symbian is starting to really show its age and the Touch version still not being that touch friendly), HTC and HP as the top three.
However, as the days wore on, the companies slowly pulled out of the bidding, with HTC rumoured to have pulled out after looking at Palms books.
Yet these rumours appeared to be for nothing when Palm announced that they weren’t for sale. But, only a week had to pass before we get news that HP have paid a 1.2bn dollars for the dying company.
Good news is that HP has announced that they won’t give up on the web OS. Wooho! Since the buyout, Sprint have released an update for their Palm Pre Pluses, so hopefully Palm’s existing phones will still get the support they may need.
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