This is according to a report
by webOS Nation which has looked at the details of the shelf company that purchased the Palm brand from HP.
LG is set to introduce its line of smart kitchen solution that will be powered
by webOS and Alexa.
«Given that no single manufacturer or OS yet dominates the tablet computing space, HP can couple the capabilities offered
by WebOS with its own design expertise to become a key player in this emerging market segment.
The TouchPad is powered
by the webOS mobile operating system HP acquired in its purchase of Palm last year for $ 1.2 billion.
HP tried to make a difference with the TouchPad powered
by the WebOS operating system though that fizzled out sooner than expected.
Those who have spent time with the OS should find themselves at home with LG TV powered
by WebOS, though that fact remains, they make for a very niche segment.
Not exact matches
The basics: The TouchPad has a 9.7 - inch display and runs
webOS 3.0, the latest version of the web - based operating system developed
by Palm, which HP acquired in 2010.
HP's first tablet running the Palm
webOS has been caught
by One Mobile Ring in a a walk through of the upcoming device.
Like this time, HP did it a favor
by announcing an upgrade to its OS so that its now version
webOS 3.0.5.
«Our audiences get that
webOS has the potential for greatness,» said Rubinstein while further adding that, «most of the issues they cite are already known to us and will be addressed in short order
by over-the-air software and app catalog updates.»
By that time, Android is projected to grab 38.6 % of the market, RIM's QNX, which powers BlackBerry PlayBook will have 10 %, and everyone else - MeeGo,
WebOS and others - will have a minute 4.2 % combined.
This device is powered
by the HP
webOS operating system.
The iPad2 is another great Apple product (with strong hardware / software coupling), but its unchanged - for - four - years iOS user - interface has definitely been eclipsed (e.g. the lack of an intelligent notification handling, widgets, or card stacks)
by more recent offerings (e.g. Android,
WebOS, and even the copy - cat RIM Playbook).
mobipocket is a popular e-book standard on cell phone and supported
by most mobile devices (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS,
webOS, Java ME, BlackBerry, Kindle).
The same
WebOS prices at millions are being used in smart phones
by HP.
mobi file supported
by most cell phone Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS,
webOS, Java ME, BlackBerry.
This device is powered
by the HP
webOS operating system and it features a 9.7 inch XGA capacitive display, 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1.3 megapixel front - facing camera for live video calling and so on.
WebOS has been the kiss of death in the tech industry and nobody has really made it work since it was first developed
by Palm.
Palm had fallen behind Apple and Research in Motion which can be attributed to the lengthy time it took to develop the
WebOS so that
by the time the operating system targeted towards mobile devices along with the Palm Pre was ready last year, the company's profitability was dipping dangerously low.
So with the usual scroll, tap, and pinch to zoom gestures that we have
by now become familiar with, the
WebOS UI has come to include; double tap, tap and drag, tap and hold, 2 finger tap, and 2 finger tap and drag along.
Be sure to swing
by webOSroundup and PreCentral for all your
webOS needs should you decide to keep the TouchPad.
During this time, we stand
by our commitment to our
webOS customers and will work to ensure that support and service for customers are not adversely affected.
The operating system has already been beaten to the tablet market
by Apple's iOS, Google's Android, as well as BlackBerry's fading PlayBook tablet and Hewlett - Packard's
WebOS that's at death's door.
With the TouchPad, HP would be introducing the
WebOS — an entirely new operating system in the tablet scene that until now has been dominated
by the Apple iOS or the Google Android, with a sprinkling of Windows and MeeGo every now and then.
For example there is a great looking task manager which blends both the icon - grid view of Android with moveable thumbnails like on
WebOS, switched between
by using a pinch - zoom gesture.
(Unlike
webOS phones, there's no gesture area to the left of the Home button for going back in apps; that's now handled
by software.)
If you have a
WebOS phone you can take advantage of it
by tethering it to your phone to receive SMS messages and other cool features.
The operating system is
webOS 3.0 that the tablets ship with and has turned into a tweakers device with experiments of installing the modified versions of Google Android being done on it
by developers.
RIM's QNX operating system will be the third biggest player with 10 percent market share in 2015 while Intel's MeeGo and HP's
WebOS will be able to corner just 1 and 3 percent of the market
by 2015.
This was revealed
by none other than HP's executive vice president, Todd Bradley who stated they will have «a
WebOS - powered PalmPad that will be set for release in early 2011.»
Palm's ill - fated
webOS was savaged
by the same media outlets for stuttery behavior in version 1.x, so version 2.0 incorporated hardware acceleration and other improvements to deliver a smoother experience.
A high profile launch followed
by discounts to HP leaving the tablet business altogether and resorting to $ 99 clearance sale of the remaining stock of the
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The unit got shipped without having reverted back to
WebOS, which in turn was bought
by the person $ 149.
And I disagree with the idea that most people have «moved on» (in the first comment
by westex)-- I'd say that most people didn't really pick up on
webOS in the first place.
Palm /
WebOS had such potential, then they let it go
by not updating it.
That with a 1500mAh battery on the newer
webos which seems to be very good on battery life judging
by the veer and its tiny battery seems like a win to me.
If the rumors of
WebOS being purchased
by Amazon are true, and it happens, then maybe there's a different story being withheld.
Because of the leak, Palm had closed access to the developer beta of the SDK and left many developers in the lurch as evidenced
by the following tweets from the
webOS Developer Twitter account:
LG has a new idea, though, and is reportedly developing a line of TVs powered
by the newly open - source
webOS platform.
I wish
WebOS wasn't bought
by HP.
Ever since we first saw the
WebOS software it runs being used on the Palm Pre (HP bought Palm last year) back in 2009 we were won over
by its charms as a slick and powerful touch - friendly alternative to iOS, so when it was set to arrive on a tablet, we were tickled pink.
I wish for HP to have finished polishing
WebOS by the time the tablet will have been launched but I don't think they'll make it in time.
Even though HP purchased Palm for $ 1.2 billion last year so that it could stray away from the Windows - powered tablet market
by owning
webOS, the company may soon build tablets running Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system.
WebOS was announced
by Palm back in January 2009, and last year it was acquired
by HP.
The new BlackBerry Tablet OS looks like mashup between the latest BlackBerry OS 6 (found on the new BlackBerry Torch) and Palm's
WebOS (now owned
by HP), including the cards metaphor used for multitasking.
The Touchpad is a very nice looking device, powered
by the compelling
webOS and backed
by one of the worlds biggest PC manufacturers.
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.
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.
the 9.7 inch display was utilized pretty well
by the card interface of
webOS
webOS as a platform is currently kept alive
by LG, who purchased the platform from HP in 2013 to develop into its own software platform and has so far used it to develop a critically lauded smart TV platform before shifting development to a possible wearables platform in the vein of Samsung's Tizen with a rumored
webOS - powered smartwatch.