Veer and Pre 3 coming to Germany with a QWERTZ keyboard? 17
WebOS phones may make a long awaited return to Germany this summer, as HP happened to publish their press released on the German site with one small change (besides, you know, all the umlauts): A QWERTZ keyboard instead of QWERTY. The Touchpad also showed up on HP’s German site along with the two new phones. The availability date is the same: this summer with no pricing information.
In the meantime, German webOS fans can of course get an unlocked Pre 2, but it's not available in QWERTZ. It had appeared at one point that a German Pre 2 release was coming but as of yet it has not happened. Why the country has been neglected until now is a bit of a mystery. There is certainly no dearth of webOS users there. There was no shortage of carrier support from O2 behind it.
But back to sunshine - it's no surprise that the new webOS phones are hitting multiple countries, that's scale for you, baby.
Source: HP's German site Veer Pre 3 Touchpad; Via: Nexave forums; Thanks to Ingo Müller for the tip!
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I hope they are counting with us too here in Spain... Can’t wait to get my hands on that awesome Pre 3... I’ll switch carriers if I have to, just bring it over... ASAP
Yeeehaaa! ;) I didn t doubt that this stuff was coming to germany. But nice to see some proof. And nice to see that the release time frame looks at the moment pretty much the same. I can remember that i was playing with a pre in my holiday in the US and had to wait for some month until i could buy it here in germany.
webOS has a growing fan base here in germany. Right now i know more people with a pre then with a iphone ;) And 2 of my frinds just picked up a pre a month ago. ( it was on sale for a very low price ) They all love it.
So you only know 2 people and have 2 friends... wow that's a lot of Pre's.
Keep it chill guys. We were promised webOS 2.0 updates from both O2 and Palm in the past, but it didn't happen either. I won't take it as a promise, all they did is translate that stupid website. The "details" links point to the U.S. website, and they even carried over the "Produkte nicht in allen Regionen verfügbar." / "Products not available in all regions" - which is kinda pointless to state on the German sub-website.
"Keep it chill guys. We were promised webOS 2.0 updates from both O2 and Palm in the past, but it didn't happen either"
-> Palm was just bought by Palm at that time. I think it s normal that it takes some time until everything is aligned and pointing in the same direction. As much as i would love webOS2 on my old pre, i think making a cut that hurts right now but brings more oportunities to the table for the future is the right decision if i would have to make it.
We will see, but i am pretty sure that we will see webOS devices in germany.
How about SPRINT!!!! I want my Pre3 yesterday :-)
Hope HP's coming to India soon as well... Palm's india website still has Pre minus placeholders since forever!
Oh, one more thing: http://urly.de/f87f4
The tech specs list an "extractable QWERTZ-Keyboard" - for the Touchpad. Fail!
Now just to hope O2 UK show some HP love given their lackluster commitment in the past.
How about Asia Pac???????
Yes, no word on this yet in the UK, which is ominous. I would like to see O2 commit to all of these products with a decent advertising budget and a proper push. Go the whole hog, do deals on the Pre 3 and Touchpad together, they would get me to sign up and thousands of others I'm sure. I've been using a Pre 2 for the last 2 months, and its still a great OS but the keyboard is crap. The extra space on the Pre 3 should make it superb.
They were half ass with their WP7 push as well, the only thing they committed to was the iPhone, and they must have spent a fortune on that.
HP needs to halt there laptop line retool and get these Pre3's out the door with a free touchstone charger if you pick up a Touchpad...
Ok, that is good news because this means it would it make easier to get one for me since I live in Switzerland.
But I still worry about the App Catalog. Currently a lot of countries are not able to buy apps because there is no payment model for them. If HP wants to grow their market share they really need to make the paid apps available in a lot more countries.
Exactly!
While this can be viewed like good news it's not much to cheer about because Palm's been selling to Germany citizens already and that's actually how I got mine (but I'm in Croatia).
So while it's good news webOS is "hitting multiple countries", it's really not the scale we're (or at least I am) expecting from them or should we say, HP.
I wouldn't give too much on the blah on this web site. However, they announced the three new musketeers for Germany. And they better not try to sell devices not properly localized anywhere in Europe. That'll be mucho sub-standard and I don't think HP will fail that hard :-)
When and how much are naturally two completely different questions...
Face the fact the European market is not HP / Palms top priority.
For Palm, just look at the disaster with the separated app store, i still don't understand the decision.
For HP they already had proven in the past with the IPAQ product that they can't compete on the european market.
Now they repeat their mistakes,
and the European market is again left behind.
To cancel the 2.0 update for the first Pre's might be a valid decision but there is no proper communication.
O2 has to apologize for HP unreliable product communication. If there is any?
Try to buy an Pre2 in europe, it is almost impossible.
The problem is, the Pre is still a product for the more adventurous customer. If you buy a Pre today you do not know if there is support for it tomorrow.
HP product politic and communication creates reasonable doubt that HP has any interest in doing business with the European market.