Palm was one of the early players in the smartphone space, leveraging the company’s experience from the Palm Pilot to create popular devices like the Palm Treo. But after Apple launched the iPhone and Google launched Android, Palm started to struggle. Rather than adopt Android or Windows like most phone makers, Palm decided to develop […]
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Lilbits (12-19-2014): Return of the Palm?
Once upon a time Palm was a leading company in the mobile device space. Then Palm lost some serious market share, tried some new things that didn’t go over too well, and was eventually acquired by HP… who then canceled all Palm-related projects and dismantled the team before selling most of the remaining assets to […]
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4 Comments on webOS rises from the ashes (again) as LuneOS: open source operating system for phones and tablets
webOS rises from the ashes (again) as LuneOS: open source operating system for phones and tablets
4 Comments on webOS rises from the ashes (again) as LuneOS: open source operating system for phones and tabletsThe operating system that once powered devices like the Palm Pre and the HP TouchPad is getting another crack at life. A group of developers have taken the source code HP released a few years ago and turned it into something new(ish) called LuneOS. While the software is still very much a work in progress, […]
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Qualcomm acquires webOS, iPAQ patents from HP
In 2013, HP sold to LG much of the intellectual property it had acquired when it bought Palm in an ill-fated attempted to make webOS a viable alternative to Android and iOS. But HP hung onto plenty of patents related to webOS and other mobile technology… until now. Qualcomm has announced it’s acquiring about 1,400 […]
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HP spins of remains of Palm team as Gram, a new software company
After spending billions of dollars to acquire Palm and build a few phones and tablets, HP canceled all of its webOS hardware last year. While the webOS operating system that drove the Pre, Veer, and TouchPad is transitioning to an open source project, the folks at webOS Nation report that HP is quietly moving the […]
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Will Amazon buy Palm/webOS from HP?
Less than a year and a half after HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion, it looks like HP may be ready to sell — and Amazon may be first in line to buy what’s left of Palm. VentureBeat reports that HP is looking to sell off its Palm assets and that Amazon is the company […]
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Are these the first HP webOS tablet images?
HP is set to make a major webOS-related announcement on February 9th, and smart money is on the company’s first tablet designed to run the operating system. Now Engadget has received a few rendered images of a webOS tablet, which the anonymous tipster says is one of two tablets HP plans to bring to market. […]
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Fox News: HP/Palm’s new PalmPad headed for CES, looks exactly like the Slate
According to Fox News, HP/Palm will be showing off three new tablet devices at CES in January. Fox states that the PalmPads will run webOS 2.5.1, and sport similar hardware to the iPad. The device will feature USB 3.0, possible multi-format card reader and a mini-HDMI port, as well front and rear-facing cameras (at 1.3 […]
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HP/Palm’s webOS tablet will have optional Bluetooth keyboard
In a not-particularly-shocking move, it looks like HP plans to offer a Bluetooth keyboard accessory for the company’s upcoming webOS tablet. Engadget has received a leaked photo of the keyboard along with a little bit of information letting us know that the keyboard will have some special webOS function keys, no number pad, a chiclet […]
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It’s (almost) official: HP’s WebOS tablet will be named PalmPad
Despite early evidence that Research in Motion’s upcoming tablet would bear the awkward moniker of “BlackPad,” this week the company announced a device with a slightly better name: BlackBerry PlayBook. I’m still not sure why you’d use the word play when describing a device that you want to promote as a tablet professionals can use […]