HP, the owners of the currently failed webOS operating system that formerly resided on products like the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi, has thrown the OS to the open source community so it might one day live again. Even though the latest version of webOS had some strengths to it, it was always fitted to … Read more
HP bought Palm in 2010 for whooping $1.2 billion and release HP Touchpad tablet and HP Veer mini phone during first half of this year. During the CES of this year, most of the media and tech pundits were thinking that HP could give Apple a competition in Tablet market because of webOS. But the … Read more
If you were lucky enough to have ordered one of those $99 HP Touchpads in the fire sale last week, chances are it has arrived in the mail and you’ve eagerly unboxed it only to find it’s not quite the tablet experience you were hoping for. Out of the box, the Touchpad just doesn’t feel … Read more
The fire sale is still underway and from all accounts it looks like Bryna is going to give us news tomorrow that there’s a new stockpile of HP TouchPads for the masses for just $100/$149. HP is definitely taking a loss on these, even if you just consider the components but the question remains how … Read more
Always hard to judge the legitimacy of the web but take a look at this video for yourself (running Android 2.2.1) and here’s the info provided by the poster: A coworker ordered his HP Touchpad for $99 from bestbuy, this is the 32g, when he got it, it came with android already on it, I … Read more
If you’re looking to get your hands on a TouchPad while they’re on fire sale don’t worry- HP will have more shortly. The reason is that a lot of retailers, including most BestBuy stores, sent their supplies back to HP and HP is going to sell them now. HP has confirmed that sales will resume … Read more
Just to clarify, we noted that the hardware will not be made but lots of sites are taking this as the death of webOS. Not the case. Here’s a tweet from HP: Richard is the HP VP Worldwide Developer Relations webOS and this is consistent with their earlier statements. HP is leaving the hardware business … Read more
We’ve long surmised that WebOS’s days were limited but little did we realize how limited they were. From the press release: HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software … Read more
By now you’ve probably heard that HP is taking pre-orders for the HP TouchPad – their iPad competitor with prices to match. What’s been shocking to me, is that people seem generally excited about this. I mean, when I look at WebOS I see a dying OS. And that has nothing to do with the … Read more
