I'd like to see this.

Palm had good software and terrible hardware. Samsung has good hardware and terrible software.

webOS has too much promise to be killed off by HP.

Aw man.. Someone's really playing with my expectations here. Timeline:

Whoa, Palm is back and has a really slick operating system.

Oh - the device is crap and the distribution sucks. Hope they make it and can improve it.

Second batch of devices sucks even more in terms of availability. Hang in there Palm!

HP bought Palm? Cooool. Now _they_ are certainly going to come up with good hardware, everywhere?

What? An huuuuge announcement for devices 6 month early? Like 'You know these WebOS devices from Palm? That you couldn't get anywhere? Well, we're going to bring out NEW devices. No, you cannot get them anywhere for half a year'.

Announcing that HP won't continue to create WebOS devices.

And now these rumors about Samsung (there were previous rumors about Samsung thinking about a WebOS license agreement). I really, really want to believe that now, finally, this is real and going to fix ~everything~. But - I kind of gave up on the idea of having a decent WebOS handset already.. Or did I?

Bada, WebOS, Android, Windows? I'd think these are too many operating systems to support for Samsung.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938470

This was discussed yesterday as well, although the DigiTimes link is the original source of the rumor. Keep in mind DigiTimes also originated the refuted rumor that Samsung would buy HP's PC business.

And here's my comment on the issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2939477

I wonder if Samsung would try to support Meego? I imagine Elop will want to bury Megoo in a deep hole. He must know he will look like a prat if Meego takes off and WM7 flops.And Samsung probably want to own something, but it could be an option.

That would be the closest thing possible to a three-man race.