After on-again, off-again news about the webOS mobile platform, HP has made a final decision: WebOS will be offered to the open source community. HP will still be involved to help platform progression, but it’s not clear if any HP hardware will ever run webOS again. Read More »
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Not only does Samsung not want to buy HP’s PC business, it also says it wants nothing to do with buying webOS. Samsung’s CEO made that clear Friday while talking with reporters at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. Read More »
After returning from a Vegas vacation, I found one last jackpot on my doorstep: An HP Touchpad and Touchstone wireless charging dock. I’ve only just started looking at these review units, but see much to like. But will consumers wait for webOS apps on the Touchpad? Read More »
As a platform, webOS has impressed nearly every reviewer who’s touched it, but it faces a few hurdles. One of those hurdles, the device’s hardware choices, could be cleared easily if the licensing talks HP CEO Leo Apotheker says are underway bear fruit. Read More »
The HP Veer 4G, Hewlett Packard’s first handset since it acquired Palm, launches on May 15 in the U.S. as an AT&T exclusive for $99. The handset bucks the trend of large-screened smartphones, but could be a nice addition to HP’s upcoming tablet, the HP TouchPad. Read More »
A leaked image of an alleged HP webOS handset design shows something missing, and that’s a good thing: the phone appears to drop the physical keyboard. Palm never implemented a software keyboard on their otherwise excellent webOS platform, but HP looks to be making the change. Read More »
It’s being reporting today that HP/Palm is preparing to release the “PalmPad” next month. The story is accompanied by a diagram showing the PalmPad. I thought the diagram looked familiar, and a brief investigation shows it’s the same diagram shown by HP of the HP Slate. Read More »
HP put rumors to bed with the official announcement of both HP webOS 2.0 and the Palm Pre 2. The evolution of the platform and handsets designed for it are the result of HP’s acquisition of Palm earlier this year for $1.2 billion. Read More »
There’s a rumor bouncing around the web today that the upcoming HP “PalmPad” will be a webOS tablet operated by both touch and a pen. As a long-time tablet enthusiast I would love to see such a slate but I’m afraid that just won’t happen. Read More »
Were you one of those Palm Pilot users who could scribble lots of text using the Graffiti input method with that little stylus? The old Palm Pilots are long gone, but Access has released the Graffiti system for the Android platform for the nostalgic. Read More »
The Microsoft Tablet PC may have been around for a decade, but the newly released iPad has defined a new market for slates. Sales numbers have been good and tablet makers are racing to get their models to market late this year and early next year. Read More »
Patent-holding company NTP yesterday filed suit against Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft, and Motorola for alleged violation of eight NTP patents for wireless email delivery. NTP previously sued RIM for the same and the BlackBerry-maker settled for $612.5 million. Can NTP win more money? Read More »
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