It's all in working pre-production stage, both
Open webOS watch and Secure Key, but both seem to work very well.
[Update: The plot thickens — while it may look like an Android Wear watch, Android Central spotted that the unnamed watch is actually running
Open webOS and supposedly has a baked - in cellular connection.]
Read on for a full demo of both Audi's LG
Open webOS watch and its Android Wear counterpart.
Audi's foray into smartwatches has kicked off some confusion here at CES, over whether the car company is working on
Open webOS or Android Wear.
The LG - W120L smartwatch that LG was showcasing as an Audi connected smartwatch was running not Android Wear, but our old favorite, the little platform that couldn't:
Open webOS.
Narrowing down our options [note: this is not a suggested purchases list, we don't recommend you buy a device on the chance that it might someday run
Open webOS] to the most likely candidates among currently available devices are two: the Android - powered Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Nokia N9 running Meego.
As for tablets that'll support
Open webOS, right now there aren't any that fit the bill of a TI processor and open source drivers.
The Nexus 7
Open webOS port is still in its early stages, but thanks to the work done on the Galaxy Nexus port it's come a long way in a relatively short time.
As if the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Open webOS port wasn't enough, WebOS Ports has announced a new porting project:
Open webOS on the Google Nexus 7.
They might even make hardware that ships with
Open webOS already installed, though like the possibilities for the devices above, we wouldn't put all of our cards on that thought.
The port was accomplished with the Galaxy Nexus project in conjunction with LibHybris, created by Carsten Munk (an engineer at Jolla, though he also leads Merproject, which grew out of Sailfish ancestors Maemo and Meego), a library that allows for «bionic - based [Android] hardware adaptations in glibc systems», in essence making it easier to translate between the designed - for - Android hardware and Linux - based software like
the Open webOS operating system.
Despite all that, developers are still making it accessible through
Open WebOS, a development effort that will keep the operating system ticking on modern devices.
From Android riding shotgun with webOS on a dual - booted TouchPad to
Open webOS being fired up on a Galaxy Nexus...
Not exact matches
After HP went public with its move of making the
webOS an
open source platform, HP CEO Meg Whitman has said during a discussion that making tablets are still a possibility, even after the HP's Windows 8 push.
WebOS has some perks, like the ability to have more then one window
open at a time.
According to what HP says, it «plans to remain active in the development and support of
webOS» however the «making of
webOS open source will accelerate the development of the
webOS platform and application ecosystem.»
HP has since made
WebOS an
open source platform, but has failed to gain any real traction.
HP's plans of making its
WebOS as
open source has not been as spontaneous as it might seem, new details on this reveal.
HP had already stated their intentions of making the
WebOS platform an
open source project.
The new
open source version of the OS would be named
webOS Community Edition... [Read more...]
webOS also has a great notifications feature, a small alert that pops up at the bottom of the screen when you have an incoming call, text message, or e-mail, but that alert comes up without interrupting the app you have
open (similar to Google Android).
And from the bottom, it brings up the app switcher, where
open apps can be flicked away (kinda like Palm
WebOS).
While these reports suggest
webOS is likely off the table, HP could stick to Whitman's target plan of fielding a tablet device based on a mobile OS this year, but one based on Android instead of its own product, which it has since
open - sourced.
I would even argue
WebOS is more «
open'than DROID.
LG has a new idea, though, and is reportedly developing a line of TVs powered by the newly
open - source
webOS platform.
We'd analyzed Kindle job
openings a few days ago and had figured out that Kindle would soon be coming to Windows Mobile and
WebOS.
And seeing the dozens of devices, including the closed - source Qualcomm - powered HP TouchPad, the CyanogenMod project has managed to get their
open source version of Android running on, we wouldn't be surprised to see the same happen with
webOS.
Essentially, it's like
webOS on the TouchPad Go, except on the slimmer, lighter, faster, newer Nexus 7 and more
open source - y.
The seven - inch Android - powered tablet built by Asus was the premiere launch devices for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and thanks to the
open source and
open hardware nature of the device, it is the perfect fit for
WebOS Ports's next porting adventure.
Analysts have suggested that the
open - source
WebOS could give HP a boost in competing against Apple's iPad in the tablet space.
In addition, using Palm
WebOS for a tablet might
open the door for more application development.
Research in Motion has uncloaked a WebKit - based browser for the BlackBerry, tapping the same
open - source rendering engine that underpins browsers on the Apple iPhone, Google Android mobile operating system, Palm
webOS, and the Symbian OS.
Unlike Palm's failure with
webOS however, RIM does have a steady and stable platform that will continue to provide the funding necessary to emerge the platform without
opening it up to third parties.
Knowing which apps are
open and jumping in between them is really simple and intuitive thanks to the
WebOS - like navigator area of the OS.
The company would go on to announce that
webOS, which it gained ownership of as part of its $ 1.2 billion Palm acquisition, would be
open - sourced.
The idea behind
open sourcing parts of the legacy code is to allow the homebrew community to do even more with devices currently running
webOS 3.0.5
15 February 2012:
Open source homebrew development group
WebOS Internals has the cooperation of HP to implement the just - released QtWebKit framework and Isis browser onto currently - available webOS devices like the TouchPad ta
WebOS Internals has the cooperation of HP to implement the just - released QtWebKit framework and Isis browser onto currently - available
webOS devices like the TouchPad ta
webOS devices like the TouchPad tablet.
It took another three months for HP to come up with a plan for
webOS, opting to
open source the mobile operating system after billions of dollars of investment.
This tip is only for HP TouchPads running
webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher When HP released their
Open Source «
webOS Community Edition» for the HP TouchPad (not to be confused with...
HP has finally come to a decision about what to do with its
webOS platform: the company is making it
open source, but still has plans to develop tablets using -LSB-...] Read full article
Now, the South Korean colossus has revealed
WebOS Open Source Edition (
WebOS OSE), as well as a first target device.
LG just released an
open - sourced version of
webOS that's freely available to anyone that wants to download and poke around the code.
This is the second time an
open - source version of
webOS has been released, the first coming under the failed tenure of HP back in 2011.
It has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) to develop more applications supporting
webOS, an
open operating system (OS).
LG on Monday announced a plan to release a new
open source version of its
webOS platform as part of a...
For example, LG just recently announced that its
WebOS platform will be gaining support for Google Assistant which means the new TVs in its lineup of products for the year will have Google Assistant support as well, which is technically a big thing for Google and Google Assistant as it's
opening up the use of the feature to more platforms.
While it has its own platforms, like
webOS and SmartThinQ, it isn't beyond
opening its doors to rivals.
Following this disaster, the company decided to abandon further
WebOS based product development and dumped
WebOS in the
open source territory.
As such, they've developed an
open - source version — aptly named webOS Open Source Edition — that's available for anyone to download and tinker w
open - source version — aptly named
webOS Open Source Edition — that's available for anyone to download and tinker w
Open Source Edition — that's available for anyone to download and tinker with.