Thoughts On The iPhone X
Apple announced the iPhone X, at its special event marking 10 years of the iPhone. Given my habit of calling X as ‘ex’ (thanks to OS X), I am still relearning that X is now referred to as ‘ten’. Given…
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Is Google Acquiring HP’s WebOS Enyo Team?
There are reports doing the rounds suggesting that Google might be poaching HP’s team working on Enyo, which is a webOS HTML5 based framework that debuted on the TouchPad. The news puts a huge question mark on the future of…
HP Taking WebOS Open Source, Who Would Make The Hardware?
The webOS saga makes for a good movie script. The story began with HP acquiring Palm last year and raising the market expectations from what was a new and promising platform in the mobile space. Android and iOS had pretty…
HP Is Keeping PC Business, No Word On WebOS
The HP drama is gets more interesting. Its last CEO killed webOS hardware development, sold the touchpad in a fire sale (hey we got one), decided to spin-off the PC business and visioned to become a enterprise player. But hey,…
Dear Amazon, Are You Buying webOS?
Precap: HP has messed up the Palm acquisition for which it spent over USD 1 billion last year. Rumors about the future of WebOS are plenty. Today marks another chapter in the Palm story, a rumor that raises some hope. Amazon…
Palm Pre 3 Skips The US; Sees Dramatic Dip In Price
After the unbeatable $99 deal on the HP Touchpad, it’s time to turn our attention to the top of the line smartphone from HP, the Pre 3. HP has decided to slash the price of the Pre 3 in both…
HP TouchPad Already Selling At 2x Cost On eBay / Amazon
We have previously talked about HP killing WebOS devices (and effectively WebOS itself.) After the news of HP discontinuing TouchPad and other WebOS offerings, the company announced a fire-sale on the recently launched TouchPad thus giving them away for $99…
Dear HP, Palm Wasn’t A Magic Wand
If you landed here via the homepage, you would have heard it by now: HP Is done with its stint with WebOS / Palm. Last year when HP picked up Palm for $1.2 billion, it raised a hope and as…
HP Kills Palm, WebOS. Looking To Spin PC Division Off
This month is surely turning out to be one of the most eventful ever in the world of mobile telephony. If it was the surprise acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google last week, it’s now turn of HP to surprise…
Palm Pre, Pre Plus Updated To WebOS Version 1.4.5.1
If you happen to own a Palm Pre or the newer Palm Pre Plus, let us remind you all that an update for these devices have been issued by HP. The update graduates the version number of WebOS to 1.4.5.1…
HP Announces The Veer
Apart from the Pre 3 and the HP Touchpad that saw the light of the day today, we have one tiny entrant to the WebOS family in the form of the HP Veer. The Veer is a WebOS powered smartphone…
Palm Pre 3 Announced
HP has just taken the covers off its latest update to the Palm Pre family in the form of the Pre 3. The Pre 3 brings in all the virtues of the erstwhile Pre devices but adds in a larger,…
HP Issues Invites For February 9 WebOS Event
HP has just issued invites to an event that it has been scheduled to be held on February 9, 2011 at San Francisco. The invite in itself is interesting for it does not have even a single Palm related branding. No sign…
Palm’s WebOS Now Has 5000 Apps
While the likes of iOS and Android have crossed the 100,000 mark when it comes to the sheer number of applications available for the respective platforms, two year old smartphone OS WebOS from Palm is trudging along slowly and has just crossed the 5000 app mark recently. There were…
HP’s iPad Competitor PalmPad To Be Showcased At CES
If 2010 was the year of the tablets, 2011 might turn out to be the year, the entire tablets market evolved from its early nascent stage that we saw in 2010. At last year’s CES, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and HP were particularly bullish about the tablets space. In fact Ballmer’s keynote was particularly focused…
WebOS Doctor Reveals New Palm Device Details
While we certainly knew that the Palm would be coming up with new WebOS based devices in the near future. Until now, we had no confirmation regarding this. Like I said, that was until now. Because a member, over at…
More details on Palm Pre 2 specs, HP.com to sell unlocked version
The Palm Pre 2 is the latest webOS powered smart phone and currently the talk of the town for Palm fans. The first Palm device coming out after the HP takeover isn’t the most attractive one in terms of the…
Why you should not go out and rate the Palm Pre 2
Yes we are the same people who go out and compare every new smart phone out there with the Androids and iPhones and make no exceptions in the cut throat competition that exists in the smart phone space. However, it…
Palm Pre 2, webOS 2 Officially Announced
After being acquired by HP, it was expected that Palm would come up with a successor to the Original Palm Pre in rather quick time. However, it seems HP had a lot of work to do at Palm before they…
Palm gives sneak peak to webOS 2.0
Palm (Palm HP) has released details on the upcoming update to webOS i.e. v2.0. Palm has now got the much needed resources from HP and should be in a position to rollout updates much much faster. While the release announcement…
