HP stopped making webOS hardware in 2011 when the company discontinued the TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer smartphones. But HP pledged to keep webOS alive by making the mobile operating system an open source project — and the company’s been working toward that goal in recent months. But HP eliminated about half of the jobs in its webOS division…
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HP doesn’t currently sell any phones or tablets running webOS software. But the company is committed to transforming the operating system it spent billions of dollars acquiring and developing into an open source platform by the end of the year. That means we could still see future webOS hardware from HP — or even from other companies looking for alternatives to…
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The HP TouchPad Go is a 7 inch tablet which never made it to market. It was a casualty of HP’s decision to kill off its webOS hardware division last summer, just two months after introducing the HP TouchPad 10 inch tablet and watching it flop (only to see it sell like hotcakes once the price was lowered from $499…
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The developers of the CyanogenMod version of Android are now offering nightly builds of the latest software for the HP TouchPad tablet. Every night a new version of Android 4.0 featuring the latest bug fixes and other improvements will be available for download from the CyanogenMod website — but it’s important to note that nightlies are experimental builds and each…
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HP has already committed to turning the webOS operating system that runs on smartphones and tablets into open source software. But initially the goal was for future versions of webOS to be community-focused software. Now HP has announced plans to release additional parts of webOS 3.0.5 as open source software, which should allow independent developers to further tweak the software that’s…
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The HP TouchPad is a pretty decent tablet with a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display, a fast 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB to 32GB of storage. It may not have sold very well when HP tried to charge $499 and up for the tablet, but when the company discontinued the TouchPad…
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One of the reasons the HP TouchPad became so popular (after HP discontinued the tablet and slashed the price by 80 percent) is because the tablet can be hacked to run Google Android in addition to the webOS software it ships with. But what if you could run Android apps from webOS without rebooting your device at all? Eventually you may…
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The bad news for the handful of webOS enthusiasts still out there is that HP has eliminated 270 jobs in its webOS division. The good news is that the company still has more than 200 people working on the operating system — even though HP eliminated all of its webOS hardware last year and started the process of making the…
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HP is following through on its commitment to release the source code for webOS one piece at a time. Today the company released the source for the Isis browser, a new version of the web browser for webOS phones and tablets. Isis is described as a work in progress, built with QtWebKit, JavaScriptCore, and support for other web technologies including…
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HP announced recently that it would release its webOS mobile operating system as open source software. Now the company is providing a roadmap. The goal is to release the first open souce version of webOS by September, 2012. Along the way the company will start using a standard Linux kernel instead of a custom kernel, update the development tools for…
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The first public build of Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is now available for the HP TouchPad. The tablet originally shipped with HP’s webOS software, but hackers have been installing Google Android on the TouchPad for months. Up until recently, only Android 2.3 Gingerbread was available for the tablet, but now the CyanogenMod team has released CyanogenMod 9 Alpha…
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Update: It’s now possible to install an early (buggy) version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the TouchPad with CyanogenMod 9. We’ve posted step-by-step instructions. The first official alpha or beta release of CyanogenMod 9 for the HP TouchPad should be available any day now, but it turns out the CyanogenMod team isn’t the only group of developers porting…
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