webOS Weekly - Bring on the news 3

• Darren Humphries, who is quite known in the mobile tech community, has shared a really neat photo of his car that he took with a Pre 2 (and then did some editing to). The result is actually pretty cool, and shows what having a camera handy, even just the one in your phone, can do for your day.
• One of the features of webOS 2.0 that has got most of this community excited goes by the sweet little name of Just Type, and according to Mochael Olsen (@deferom), is has the potential to blow people's minds. How have you used Just Type to do the same?

• Even though we don't necessarily need to hear it again, there are still a lot of users waiting for news on when the next device is going to be released. One @PrdAmerican is putting it to Palm bluntly, as are many others, but we don't expect a response to come as simply as that. While we wait, maybe it's a good time to start building some apps, learning how to develop in Enyo, or just gettng to know the strengths of the rest of the community. When everything does finally go down (May 2nd, maybe?) we'll be ready for some good times ahead of us.

• Matt Joe, VP of Tech at POP, has a lot of good things to say about the future of webOS. His recent article on Venture Beat shows some of the great potential that he sees in the platform, but goes beyond just simple cheerleading and describes what he believes are the best things that the competition, Android, Apple and others, can take from webOS and learn to improve their own ecosystems. Let's just hope they hold off a bit and give HP a chance to get in the game first, otherwise the news might be a bit slow around here for a while longer.

A Week of News

If you've already been keeping up with the week of webOS news through the P|C blog, then some of these stories may not, in fact, be new to you. But we include them here anyway for people who might have missed some of what was going on this past week.

• The HP Veer is coming closer and closer to being released, and it looks as though O2 Germany is already looking to grab a bite of that pie. We've got some word from the o2insider Twitter account that we'll be seeing the device shipped in Germanysometime in June, with Pre-orders being accepted now (at an unknown price).
• The news about a June release for Germany does not mean that we'll have to wait that long in other countries (particularly the US). In fact, a Veer launch party is scheduled for May 2nd in Anaheim, California, and we can't imagine them celebrating a launch unless one was coming soon (if not immediately) after. Some details from the invite also mentioned requiring an AT&T Badge, which pretty well confirms our previous prediction on which carrier was getting the device.
• People have often wondered when and if someone would bring webOS onto an Android device to test out other hardware with the platform, but ironically, someone has actually done exactly the opposite. k3dar has taken it upon himself to dual-boot Android OS onto an original Pre minus with some good success, albeit somewhat risky. What do we think about this? Hey, if they can do it with a Pre-, what will happen with the Pre 3 when it's released?
• If you are one of the unlucky many that is stuck behind carrier- and geo-restricted app catalog walls, a new app from Michael Schumacker, DummyMaker, may be your ticket to some freedom. With the new app, and a little bit of legwork, you'll be able to get any free apps available from the US App Catalog with no problems. Still won't work for Paid apps, but it's yet another step closer to seeing that dream realized.