Why HP/Palm Needs to Step up Their Game

With the release of the Verizon CDMA iPhone, things could not be getting worse for the ever decreasing stock of Palm smartphones.  Even though Palm was bought out by HP there have not been any notable releases in the smartphone department.   I mean there was the Pre Plus and Pre 2....but those are not much of a change from its predecessor, and what HP/Palm needs is a refreshed and revamped hardware to meet its already well polished software.

HP/Palm is having a little get together on the 9th of February, one day before the release of the iPhone 4 for Verizon.  The even is supposedly marking the beginning of a new era for HP/Palm and could be the release of the ever so talked about PalmPad as well as the possibility for a Verizon LTE device.  With the new Pre's and Pixi's there hasn't been much to offer spec wise.  The Pre 2, which hasn't even release and may not even be released by Verizon, finally got a 1Ghz processor.  A new phone with WebOS on it needs a phone with a lot of kick and RAM.

Possible specs for a new webOS phone:

4" high resolution display
Same Gesture area
5-8 mp camera
1 Ghz Dual Core Processor
At least 700 mb RAM for all the multitasking webOS is capable, it needs a lot of RAM
Better battery life
1.3 mp front facing camera
none of the plastic it has used in the past which made it feel cheap