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 […]
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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 […]
Reports of the HP Windows 7 Slate’s death may have been exaggerated
Last week word leaked out that HP may have halted development of the HP Slate, the company’s upcoming Windows 7 tablet with a touchscreen interface and support for Adobe Flash — something that’s notably missing on the Apple iPad. The rumor came hot on the heels of HP’s announcement that it was acquiring Palm, which […]
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 […]
Verizon drops the fee for using Palm Pre, Pixi as WiFi hotspots
Sure, Palm’s stock might be worth next to nothing and a lot of pundits are starting to question the company’s future. But for the first time, I’m starting to wonder if I should have picked up a Palm Pre last month when I was in the market for a smartphone instead of a Google Nexus […]
Introducing mobiputing: Smartphone apps, tips, and news
I wanted to take a moment to let you know about a new web site I’ve just launched, called mobiputing. As you can probably guess from the name, mobiputing is and will continue to be a sister site to Liliputing. But while Liliputing is focused on netbooks and mobile computing hardware and software generally, my […]
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 […]