That didn’t take long. Just hours after HP released the source code for Open webOS 1.0, the folks at webOS Ports have managed to get the operating system up and running on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. This is still an early build. There’s no support for hardware accelerated graphics, which means that the user […]
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HP releases Open webOS 1.0
The first open source version of HP’s webOS operating system is now available. HP is releasing Open webOS 1.0 a little over a year after the company cancelled every phone and tablet designed to run earlier versions of webOS. In other words, webOS lives on… you just can’t buy any devices that run the operating […]
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Android for the HP Touchpad finally gets a (partially) working camera
It’s been more than a year since HP discontinued the first and only webOS tablet, and hackers have been running Google Android on the HP TouchPad for almost as long. Since then we’ve seen every major version of Android ported to run on HP’s hardware. But there’s always been one problem: Nobody’s managed to get […]
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HP releases open webOS Beta source code, build instructions
HP has released the first beta build of open webOS, the new open source version of the operating system HP paid more than $1.2 billion for when the company acquired Palm. The source code is now available at github, as well as instructions for building the operating system from source and installing the environment on […]
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LunaCE Alpha: HP TouchPad gets a webOS Community Edition overhaul
The HP TouchPad may have been discontinued a year ago, but this old tablet can still new learn new tricks. Not only have we seen every major version of Android ported to run on the TouchPad, but now the folks at webOS Ports have also released software that brings new tricks to the original webOS […]
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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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Open webOS is designed for new hardware, won’t support HP TouchPad, Pre, Veer
There’s good news and bad news on the HP Open webOS front today. HP is moving to create a new open source version of the operating system that currently powers its discontinued smartphones and tablets such as the HP TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer smartphones. Today the company released the Luna System Manager and […]
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Old HP TouchPad learns new tricks with webOS Community Edition
The HP TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer phones were the last devices to ship with HP’s webOS software. So when HP canceled those products last year, it’s no surprise that the pace of development for webOS slowed to a crawl. Sure, HP released a couple of software patches, and a handful of developers released […]
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WebOS hacked to switch apps by swiping (HP TouchPad)
Now that HP has released the source code for webOS Community Edition, developers are starting to modify the operating system to meet their needs. One of the first hacks actually comes from Dave Freeman, a developer at HP Palm. He’s managed to change the way you switch between currently running apps. You can still swipe […]
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HP releases webOS Community Edition, Open webOS still on the way
As promised, HP has released much of the source code for webOS 3.0.5 — the operating system that shipped with the HP TouchPad Tablet last year. HP is calling this webOS Community Edition, and the goal is to make it easier for third party developers to tweak, improve, and write apps for the TouchPad and […]
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HP TouchPad was originally designed for Android, sliders were under development
With a 1.2 GHz dual core processor, a sturdy case, and a iPad-like 9.7 inch display, the HP TouchPad accidentally became one of the best Android tablets when HP discontinued the device last summer, marked down the price to $99, and hackers figured out how to load Google’s operating system onto the tablet. But while […]
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HP loses part of its webOS team to Google
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 […]