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New Yu Yuphoria version with 3 GB RAM spotted

Palm HP announced a lot of really great stuff today! The TouchPad, Palm Pre 3 and Veer (which might be my favorite, because it is tiny and adorable like a puppy). And they’re the only products guaranteed to get webOS 3.0.

Funny thing is, HP is actually launching a product tomorrow: Verizon’s taking pre-orders for the Pre 2. You might be thinking to yourself, “Great, I can buy it now and get all of that cool webOS 3.0 stuff on my phone later!” Well, don’t be so sure. Palm literally doesn’t know if the Pre 2 is going to be updated to webOS 3.0 that’s running on the TouchPad and eventually on the Pre 3 and Veer. It might. Or it might not. But it’s a little disconcerting Palm doesn’t know.

And since Palm’s VP of Product Marketing Stephane Maes told us they’re not really going to push the Pre 2 very hard—meaning it was every bit the stopgap product we thought—I’d think reallllly hard about throwing down cash on it. Oh, and if you own a Pre or Pixi or their Plus variants? You’re not even getting the latest webOS shown off today. End of the road.

Hate to sound like a broken record of late, but consider waiting for the new stuff. It is all quite spiffy.

webOS is coming to PCs later this year

HP’s decided to end its fireworks-rich presentation on a gorgeous bombshell: webOS is coming to PCs! The company says it’s thinking beyond today and intends to take webOS to “other connected devices, including printers, and some form factors you haven’t seen before.” Aside from the groundbreaking discovery that our next LaserJet might run the same code as the dashing new TouchPad, there are few specifics to be learned, but HP promises to share further details as the year goes on.

HP TouchPad first hands-on! (updated with video!)

By now, you know how HP’s new slate compares to the crowd — now, see how it looks up close and personal. We just got our hands on that dual-core Palm webOS tablet here in San Francisco, and it’s a beaut, with a slim black profile that highlights the brilliant 9.7-inch screen. We’ll be back in a jiffy with some impressions of that newfangled Tap to Share and card-based multitasking, but for now, simply feast your eyes on our gallery below.