webOS 2.0 Coming to All Hardware! #webos #palm

One of the worst things about an aging gadget, specifically smartphones, is the lack of support you and yours receive as the clock ticks away. Not to mention, the ever evolving world of phones leaves quite a few entrants behind faster than you’d think. With that said, one of the longer product support cycles in the mobile phone industry is that of Apple. It may sound like I’m on my fanboy pedestal, but that’s just how I see it. Truth be told, there are very few platforms or devices where you can still get an update that not only brings bug fixes, but boast-worthy features 1-2 years after the devices’ initial launch.

Palm must feel the same way. Palm developer advocate Josh Marinacci mentioned on stage at webOS Developer Days that “all devices” would be gettign webOS 2.0. Now obviously, your old brick of a phone Treo 650 doesn’t have a chance of seeing webOS’s sexy bits. But seemingly written off phones like the original Palm Pre do all of a sudden feel a bit more desirable again.

All in all, it’s great news for webOS users looking at 1+ year old hardware in their hands. At first we kind of wrote off the Pre 2 for it’s rather minor updates in hardware compared to the original Pre. But in this case it appears it helped the original Pre owners. Because if the Pre 2 was radically different, something tells me Palm would be a bit more willing to let it fade into obscurity.