Sentences with phrase «webos as»

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.

Flamers be flaming, I've thought that they should implement webos as an additional runtime for windows a la colinux.

They will be integrating WebOS as their infrastructure of choice on their entire line of curved televisions.

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.

HP had purchased the WebOS as well as other Palm assets for a quite hefty $ 1.2 billion.

HP's plans of making its WebOS as open source has not been as spontaneous as it might seem, new details on this reveal.

Not exact matches

The good: As with the Pre phones, the webOS is a slick operating system that makes handling the TouchPad fun.

HP chief Leo Apotheker said he was discontinuing the TouchPad tablet, launched just last month, as well as other products based on the webOS software, including the Pre line of phones.

On a conference call as HP released its third - quarter earnings on Thursday, the company's president and chief executive officer Léo Apotheker admitted both the tablet and the company's WebOS software had flopped.

Considering these quite an impressive specs, it is no wonder that HP's WebOS based Touchpad is working well with multi-tasking and even might have impressive GPU power under the hood as well.»

This tablet needs to hit the market well before the next iteration of the iPad, and at least as quickly as whatever WebOS slate HP is working on right now.

Given early indications that the Android - based Motorola Xoom and Galaxy Tab are not selling well, that RIM has shipped — not sold — a mere 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks, and that HP's webOS TouchPad tablet has garnered only lukewarm reviews, those numbers even strike us as a little ambitious.

Tablets for the Google Android Honeycomb platform as well as HP's own webOS will add to the competition in the health care field.

The Palm global business unit was responsible for webOS software development and webOS based hardware products, such as the Palm Pre and Pixi handsets.

easy, sale their PC's as «Dual Boot» with webOS & you can get an audience of hundreds - of - millions in just a few years.

HP was not ready to talk about possible time lines as to when a WebOS slate or WebOS Netbooks would be available, but said it planned to increase the $ 190 million Palm was spending annually on research and development.

In the meantime, Jon Rubinstein, ex-Palm CEO who is the current webOS lead at HP extended his support to the TouchPad and the WebOS operating system in the face of the tablet as well as the platform generating some amount of negative critiwebOS lead at HP extended his support to the TouchPad and the WebOS operating system in the face of the tablet as well as the platform generating some amount of negative critiWebOS operating system in the face of the tablet as well as the platform generating some amount of negative criticism.

The WebOS saga for HP has not been an easy one as the sum total of the losses that HP has accrued with its Palm WebOS venture can be pegged at a staggering 5 billion USD.

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.

Since someone already reviewed the Slate with Windows 7 as «meh», maybe WebOS could change their minds.

Towards that, the company has announced they will now be releasing more parts of the webOS 3.0.5 for developers to be able to modify as they see fit.

And the good thing is the Hurricane WebOS tablet might be with us as early as this summer itself.

Android 3.0 handles notifications better with its System Bar, as does webOS 3.0.

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.

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.

Most stores as well as online locations have put up «Sold Out» signs and it is taking just hours for the WebOS tablets to fly off the shelves.

They might have lost a boatload of money with buying WEBOS for two billion dollars, and lost money on the hardware as well, but everyone knows the word TouchPad now.

The company though has stated it will remain fully committed to the warranty and other obligations as regards the TouchPad while developing the WebOS platform.

As per the latest Tablet PC news, HP has filed a trademark for the name «Palmpad, «fueling rumors of the upcoming tablet PC that HP said it is making based on the WebOS mobile operating system after acquiring the Palm company may be so named.

As a proof of that, there is an update coming later in the week that promises to rectify one of the key missing element of the WebOS tablet — that of text editing capabilities.

LG has developed a store that has WebOS apps, such as Crackle, Skype, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and 50 other apps.

Here's our wishlist: there is some more shipments of TouchPad (maybe the craze is what is liked here), a new TouchPad comes in the scene, price remains low (if not as low as $ 100) and the WebOS flourishes.

Hence, as things stand now, the TouchPad running WebOS version 3.0 comes with a 9.7 inch capacitive multitouch display having a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.

«TouchPad users — We are working with HP to understand the implications of their webOS announcement last week, and we will post more information as soon as we can.

This can be seen as an extension of the high flying promises that HP made when they acquired the Palm company — that there will be a slew of products based on the WebOS.

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.

[130] In July 2011, Kindle for HP TouchPad (running webOS) was released in the US as a beta version.

With the recent Palm acquisition, many insiders are speculating that HP may use the Palm WebOS for the Slate, as it is more indicative to mobile devices, rather than Windows 7.

As part of this decision, the webOS GBU is undergoing a reduction in workforce.

PC Mag's Sascha Segan lists Stitcher as one of his favorite apps of the year, giving the Smart Radio application places both on his Top BlackBerry Apps list and on his Top Palm webOS Apps list.

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.

If you have a webOS handset such as the Pre 3, you can use the handset to make calls over Bluetooth, and also have the tablet ask you what service you'd like to use (Skype or Bluetooth) before the call connects.

So at least for now, your music enjoyment will be relegated to webOS apps such as Pandora and iheartradio, as well as your own collection.

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.

Sources in the WebOS developer team has also confirmed this is indeed a landing page URL that will host a future webOS application, as it is with other apps that is yet to go WebOS developer team has also confirmed this is indeed a landing page URL that will host a future webOS application, as it is with other apps that is yet to go webOS application, as it is with other apps that is yet to go live.

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...]

The discount though has not been entirely in vain as Woot reported having sold 612 of the WebOS running tablets during the period.

However, that there haven't been any takers to date for the WebOS shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

Then it is the first tablet to run WebOS, the operating system that HP inherited as a result of their acquisition of Palm.