HP may have purchased Palm to get its hands on the WebOS operating system rather than the company’s hardware technology. But that doesn’t mean the Palm Pre and Pixi are the only things Palm has been working on. Unwired View dug up a patent application from April which shows an intriguing device which could function […]
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HP could launch a WebOS tablet in early 2011
If you’ve been holding out hope that HP would launch a tablet running Palm’s WebOS software before the end of the year, Engadget has some dream-crushing news. HP officials are reportedly telling employees that the upcoming WebOS tablet — which may or may not be called the PalmPad — will be out in the first […]
It’s official: Palm is now a division of HP
A few months after announcing plans to acquire Palm, HP is now the proud owner of the mobile technology company. The $1.2 billion deal officially closed today. While this means HP now runs Palm’s smartphone hardware division, the key piece of this acquisition was Palm’s WebOS software which powers the Palm Pre and Pixie phones. […]
HP: WebOS slate on the way, don’t expect a WebOS netbook
Update: Now that HP’s acquisition of Palm is complete, the companies is talking about using WebOS on future smartphones, tablets, and netbooks. Ever since HP announced plans to acquire Palm a few weeks ago, there’s been a lot of speculation about exactly what the company plans to do with Palm’s WebOS operating system. Today an […]
HP confirms plans to build WebOS tablets… and other devices
You didn’t really need to be a fortune teller to figure out that when HP announced plans to purchase Palm a few weeks ago, the company wasn’t just planning to build smartphones. Now HP CEO Mark Hurd has come right out and said it: HP plans to use Palm WebOS on devices “beyond smart phones” […]
Palm WebOS running on a PC
While it will be a little while before see Palm’s WebOS officially ported to tablet or notebook-style devices, it’s probably going to happen soon. In the meantime, you can sort of kind of do it yourself if you have an older PC. Basically, Palm offers a WebOS emulator for Windows PCs. While the version of […]
HP Hurricane: WebOS tablet due out in Q3, 2010?
At this point it should be no surprise that HP is hoping to bring out a tablet based on Palm’s WebOS mobile operating system. HP practically said as much when the company announced its plans to purchase Palm for $1.2 billion. But now the folks at Examiner are reporting that HP is alread moving on […]
HP kills the Slate — is this the clincher for a WebOS tablet?
Wait, wait…First Microsoft kills the courier, now one of their closest partners shutters a similar device? According to TechCrunch, HP has decided to put an end to the Slate. We’re still waiting for confirmation, but that’s probably a good thing. Initial reactions to the device were lukewarm, and with the iPad already established as the […]
HP to buy Palm… WebOS tablets on the way?
Hewlett Packard is shelling out $1.2 billion to purchase Palm. While HP used to be a pretty major player in the mobile device space, over the past few years the company hasn’t shown much enthusiasm for the cellphone market, offering just a handful of iPaq-branded Windows Mobile phones and PDAs. But it looks like that […]
Palm could revive the Foleo as a netbook
Palm almost anticipated the netbook revolution with the Palm Foleo. I say almost for two reasons. First, because while the Palm Foleo was a small clamshell device with a keyboard, it wasn’t a standalone computer. Instead, it was designed to connect to a Palm mobile phone and act as an external display and full QWERTY […]