Sentences with phrase «from webos»

Using that same thumb to swipe downward anywhere on the home screen brings you into Spotlight Search, essentially a direct port of Palm's old Universal Search from webOS: type a query, and the iPhone searches the entire device, as well as Wikipedia and the broader web, to find a match.

A report from webOS Nation suggests HP has sold the Palm brand to a shelf company which appears to be owned by Alcatel Onetouch, or rather its owners, Chinese phone maker TCL.

Kevin from CrackBerry.com, Phil from Android Central, Derek from webOS Nation, Daniel from WPCentral, Gary from Mobile Nations, and Rene from iMore talk iPhone 5 and iOS 6, BlackBerry 10, Samsung Galaxy S III and Jellybean, Windows 8, ecosystems vs. best of breed, and... the Facebook Phone.

The improved user experience for millions of phone users will be worth the few headlines calling out Android makers for copying Apple's design (which, to be fair, Apple itself appropriated from webOS and Nokia phones from years ago).

Playbook UI seems really well thought out (if not stolen from WebOS) but thats besides the point.

One of the previous criticisms against the BlackBerry PlayBook's operating system user interface was that it took a little too much inspiration from webOS.

The BlackBerry Playbook is definitely the closest to the TouchPad when it comes to visual multitasking (and some might say that they borrowed quite a bit from WebOS's multitasking scheme).

It provides true multitasking with quick switching in a card format, it also supports bezel gestures both adopted from WebOS.

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:

They also get exclusive access to around two thousand existing applications from the WebOS.

The new HP products run from their webOS platform, which came from the company's recent acquisition of Palm and appeared on handsets such as the Palm Pre and Pixi.

It's also unnecessarily complicated to select multiple emails, and the tiled interface is sadly misleading — taking a page from the webOS book and allowing you to swipe left to right to go from accounts, to an inbox, to a message, would be great.

Not exact matches

They can license the Windows operating system from Microsoft or they can talk to HP about using webOS, something that company is apparently interested in doing.

From Android riding shotgun with webOS on a dual - booted TouchPad to Open webOS being fired up on a Galaxy Nexus...

When the iPad launched, there were basically five main tablet operating systems to pick from: Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows, RIM's BlackBerry Tablet OS and HP / Palm's webOS.

The webOS official team that carried over from Palm have mentioned that they will be licensing the OS to other companies who are interested.

People now know what they want from an app, so getting WebOS up to the status of Android or iPhone OS will not be very consuming.

The website is giving away their latest 16 GB webOS tablet from August 5 to 7th for $ 399.

That HP is looking for an alternative plan and platform to move the webOS on is a logical step, as they have bought the OS from Palm at quite a hefty sum and employed many people to align it to their requirements.

We've always been impressed with the basic ideas behind the PlayBook OS — it's a lot like webOS, and that's a very good thing from a usability standpoint.

In addition to the Reader, Kobo also offers smart phone apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and webOS that will sync purchased books from the server, even if you've already downloaded them to your computer and transferred them to the Reader.

HP also announced a tablet device, running from the same fast webOS.

HP too has been wavering from one OS to the other so that names like Windows 7, WebOS or the Android have cropped up during different times.

So that's good news for people who had purchased the webOS tablet as the lack of a feature as basic as text editing is a glaring omission from a full fledged tablet device and was the subject of some harsh criticism.

A new update has been issued for the first tablet from HP running webOS.

However, a HP branded tablet is back in the news once again and this time they would like us to believe it's definitive: a tablet from HP running WebOS is indeed in the making and is just a few months away from being commercially launched.

But the latest news indicate the same fate for Android as it had been for Windows 7 leaving only the WebOS as the sole contender to do OS duty on the forthcoming tablet device from HP.

And speaking of operating systems, HP seems to have left nothing to chance, having tested everything from Windows, Android to the WebOS that they have gained access to after having acquired the Palm company.

Aside from the superior aesthetic experience of webOS over CM7, these two things keep me in webOS for the most part.

Instead, they look towards devoting all their resources to the WebOS, the popular operating system from their newly acquired Palm company.

Announcing the acquisition deal, Palo Alto from California based HP said, «Palm will be responsible for webOS software development and webOS - based hardware products, from a robust smartphone roadmap to future slate PCs and netbooks».

It is only recently that HP has sought a trademark on the term «PalmPad «indicating a tablet running WebOS from Palm being readied for launch.

And with that came the news of HP opting for the WebOS from Palm as the preferred OS for their tablet in place of Windows.

So let's keep our finger crossed for the WebOS powered tablet from HP.

We're just over three weeks away from the HP TouchPad making its entrance into the tablet market, which is exciting not only because we really want to get our hands on the slate, but also because it's great to see some more fresh webOS hardware arriving on store shelves.

In a blog post published Tuesday, Forrester analyst JP Gownder predicted that Microsoft - powered Windows tablets would be a «fifth - mover» behind tablets from Apple, Google's Android partners, HP's WebOS, and the BlackBerry PlayBook.

We've always thought that webOS would scale nicely from smartphones to tablets because the software makes it easy to multitask.

And from the bottom, it brings up the app switcher, where open apps can be flicked away (kinda like Palm WebOS).

The epic failure of the webOS on the TouchPad, as well as the other devices from HP like the smartphone Pre3 and Veer, is yet fresh in everyone's mind.

However, that hasn't stopped Amazon.com from putting up a product page dedicated to the world's first WebOS based tablet, complete with a few user reviews as well as a couple of pictures of the upcoming tablet.

However, that hasn't stopped Amazon.com from putting up a product page dedicated to the world's first WebOS based tablet, complete with a few user reviews as... [Read more...]

Going with the TouchPad tablet may not be a very logical step now that HP had dropped the WebOS tablet from its list of products.

He had ordered one from Best Buy and when it arrived, the TouchPad was seen running Android instead of WebOS.

This since the price has been brought down to just # 89 for the 16 GB TouchPad, a steep decline from the # 400 price tag that the WebOS tablet was selling for even just last... [Read more...]

However, hopes of an iPad beating tablet from HP kept going as HP said this could be done with a device running the WebOS.

The third quarter seems awfully soon for the release of device based on webOS - especially when you consider that HP would have to switch from Atom to ARM - or port webOS to Atom.

It's forecast for the defunct WebOS tablet fell from 2.8 million in April to 2.0 million today.

A carryover from HP's popular lineup of TabletPCs and Palm's PalmPilot devices, this pen input would serve to set the webOS tablet apart from its primary competitor, the iPad.

Aside from the camera and video playback, «mostly everything else works,» including the Wi - Fi and Bluetooth, and a bootloader spotted at the beginning indicates that webOS will still be an option.

«While we expect HP's webOS platform to be a differentiating factor compared to the many Android tablets expected to reach the market, we do not think the price points on the TouchPad are aggressive enough to attract the incremental buyer from the iPad,» Moskowitz wrote in a note to investors.