The new card - based multitasking interface is strikingly reminiscent
of webOS with large previews of each app.
You see, I come from the land
of webOS - I've been writing on webOS Nation for the better part of four years.
Those four prongs matched up to four small magnets in the back
of webOS smartphones like the Pre, both aligning the phone's coil with the charger's coil and holding them in place.
A few years back, HP acquired Palm, the makers
of WebOS, to compete with Apple and other Android manufacturers in the smartphone and tablet market.
Perhaps the more interesting of the two products is the new LG Watch Urbane LTE, a device built upon the new LG Wearable Platform, a derivative
of webOS that the company has altered to suit the wrist.
The image appears to substantiate claims made to the Journal that LG will retain the «cards» system resembling a stacked pop - up screen from the original incarnation
of webOS — which LG acquired from HP in February 2013.
If you're not too young to remember Palm smartphones, and especially the Pre family
of webOS devices, then you might be mildly excited to hear the Palm brand is making a comeback this...
We've seen the Palm Touchstone be repurposed to work with a number of Android phones before, but Rod Whitby
of webOS Internals fame is working up a method to use the charger with his Nexus 7.
LG on Monday announced a plan to release a new open source version
of its webOS platform as part of a...
As we move from an app - based environment to a web - based one, we believe the true potential
of webOS has yet to be seen,» said Park.
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.
LG just released an open - sourced version
of webOS that's freely available to anyone that wants to download and poke around the code.
So while there's clearly smartphone connectivity involved, LG's wearable implementation
of webOS can function as a standalone cellular device as well.
The untimely demise
of webOS phones and the Touchpad tablet involves a root certificate that is slated to expire on July 23, 2013.
«This allows us the opportunity to fully engage in growing our smartphone family offering and the footprint
of webOS.»
Microsoft wasn't concerned too much about the potential
of webOS to eat into their business, but then again, two years later, Microsoft just now seems to be realizing the threat that tablets running operating systems other than Windows (i.e. practically all tablets right now) pose to their business.
The pleasing interface
of webOS could give consumers a very polished competitor to the iPad.
The HP TouchPad is a 9.7 inch tablet with a dual - core CPU, a 1024 x 768 pixel display, and a version
of the webOS operating system that's no -LSB-...]
The discontinued HP TouchPad has turned up in stock at UK retailer PC World, though it's unclear how long supplies
of the webOS tablet will last.
Six weeks later, HP said it was discontinuing the production
of all webOS hardware including the TouchPad tablet.
HP plans to build a giant software empire on top
of webOS's back, using it to power everything from printers to, uh, PCs.
The final, and grandstanding, arrival into the webOS family, loaded with the previously unheard
of webOS 3.0 build, is the HP TouchPad.
Even more toe stubbing occurs when touch - to - share and other preferable features proven with the TouchPad will not be compatible with phones running earlier versions
of webOS, making the $ 50 discount fairly unfulfilling.
Read on for a full list
of the webOS 3.0.2 changes.
HP CEO Meg Whitman confirms HP resuming production of tablet hardware, with Windows 8 as its new focus after the calamity
of webOS.
After the rather disappointing sales of the line
of WebOS powered smartphones and tablets, HP withdrew from the market completely and focused in other areas.
In the end, he concluded, «We believe a WebOS tablet will be better received than a Windows tablet, which may lead to adoption
of WebOS tablet PCs in the enterprise.»
Last summer's # 89 fire sale of HP TouchPads was greeted with such a ravenous appetite that most stores sold out
of the webOS slate within minutes.
In a stunning move, HP has decided to halt sales
of their WebOS - based tablets and phones.
the 9.7 inch display was utilized pretty well by the card interface
of webOS
It's no mystery that we're fans
of webOS, and we were >>
Seeing how much we loved the small seven - inch TouchPad Go, it's no surprise that the equally small Nexus 7 tablet was on the radar
of WebOS Ports.
The main attraction
of WebOS is it was built to multitask.
If the rumors
of WebOS being purchased by Amazon are true, and it happens, then maybe there's a different story being withheld.
Will the purchase
of WebOS have an impact on Android?
It's no mystery that we're fans
of webOS, and we were definitely impressed with the device during our hands - on in San Francisco.
The TouchPad runs 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and one possible reason to explain the above is that someone might have been testing the TouchPad's performance in an Android environment instead
of WebOS.
There is also the factor
of webOS not being something that HP would continue to support.
He had ordered one from Best Buy and when it arrived, the TouchPad was seen running Android instead
of WebOS.
The discount though has not been entirely in vain as Woot reported having sold 612
of the WebOS running tablets during the period.
This is the battle
of webOS and Android 3.0
This is the battle
of webOS and Android 3.0 In this review video we take a look at two of the newest devices on the market and compare many of the features against each other.
Also this couldn't come at a better time for Inventec after the way it experienced a slow down after Hewlett - Packard bid adieu the tablet business and ceased the production
of WebOS - based TouchPad tablets.
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 WebOS tablet that led to almost the 21st century equivalent of a gold rush; we have seen it all take... [Read more...]
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.
One of the hallmarks
of webOS is that you don't really have to care about what messaging client you're using to communicate.
With its vibrant 9.7 - inch diagonal flush capacitive multitouch display, virtual keyboard, instant - on access, support for Adobe ® Flash ® Player 10.1 beta in the browser and access to thousands
of webOS applications, (2) TouchPad works the way you do and is designed not just for fun but for mobile productivity.
It seems HP is eliminating a ton of jobs due to its suspension
of the webOS development team.
All three will run a new iteration
of the WebOS operating system, version 2.5.1; they're collectively a spin - off of the never - released HP Slate.
And the proper spelling
of webOS is webOS and not WebOS.