Even though HP recently bought Palm, there hasn’t really been much hints of them trying to develop a device that uses Palm’s WebOS operating system. HP has just recently registered the “Palmpad” trademark. This is a possible hint that HP is developing a new tablet that uses Palm’s WebOS. After seeing the Windows 7 tablet HP had been working on, I think that this will have a similar design, but at the same time much lower specs. I’d probably expect it to have a 1GHz Snapdragon and 256MB RAM, but we’ll have to see what HP has in store.

David – Senior Editor

Image Credit: Kotaku

The dashboard (home screen) of the Xbox 360 has only been redesigned once, but that one redesign was very significant. The NXE (New Xbox 360 Experience) was a big change in terms of interface though in terms of displaying content, it wasn’t so great. The original dashboard featured a series of controls on a page, which is owned by a tab that the user can flip through with their controller. It was very clean and efficient and you can get what you want to quickly. The next image shows the issues with the new NXE dashboard.

The red lines show the alignment of the elements, the faded white color shows wasted whitespace and the blue shows elements hidden behind other elements. This is a very inefficient way of displaying content. It is very clear that you can only get complete information out of elements 1 and 2. The rest are hidden behind other elements, hiding a lot of the content. Though it does look appealing, the perspective of which the elements are viewed at just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever and it just makes it harder to get to the content you want.

The new rumored dashboard, on the other hand, takes a similar approach on displaying content to the original Xbox 360 dashboard. It doesn’t look much like it, but it is just the original design but with tabs sorted vertically and content displayed horizontally. I hope Microsoft releases this new dashboard because it looks very promising.

David – Senior Editor

Late yesterday, George Hotz (@geohot) announced on his Twitter acount that people are taking his iPhone hacking too seriously and it isn’t fun for him anymore. George Hotz is the creator of the original iPhone jailbreak. A few days back, George Hotz made a post on his blog featuring an iPhone 4 running Cydia. His blog is no longer accessible to the public, this is most likely because of controversy from the post. He claims that iPhone hacking is just something he did when he was bored and that people are making a bigger deal about his accomplishments than him. In order to find more updates regarding future jailbreaks, George says to follow his friend, @mikecohenn.

David – Senior Editor

This photo was taken at a Verizon Authorized  Reseller. At  this reseller, not even a dummy model of the Blackberry Storm is  available to observe meaning: Either the Blackberry Storm 2 is  close to release or, the reseller’s model was in a mishap.

This appears to be related to the rumor(s) that the Storm  2 maybe released as early as October 28,  2009.

Lev – Founding Editor, TechReevu.com