Verizon Slashes Palm Phone Prices Absurdly Low, Could Be the Ideal iPad Companion

Pity Palm, and pity both the Pre and its operating system, WebOS. Palm can't compete against the likes of Google, Apple, and Microsoft, the monoliths slugging it out for smartphone supremacy: It doesn't have the bottomless pockets, the lucrative media content partners, nor the sheer size to pump out a new handset every six months.

Every Palm story of late has had the same theme: Palm is dying. And it might be true, but it's really not their fault. After all, Palm's WebOS, the operating...