Pevraets says "Good all around phone feature rich but user friendly" about Palm – Pre Cell Phone
The size of the handset itself is wonderful. Really no complaints. It’s fits perfectly in your hand and Palm did a great job blending an awesome touchscreen with a separate multi-touch gesture area, sliding design, and everything else together in this package. It’s a happy medium between something larger like a [...]
HP to pass on Windows Phone 7 and Android, focus on webOS for its smartphones
Wondering about the future of HP’s current iPAQ lineup of Windows Mobile handsets in light of the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7? In an interview with CNBC, HP’s Executive Vice President Todd Bradley confirmed that the hardware giant will not be producing a Windows Phone 7 or an Android handset. As expected, HP will [...]
HP’s webOS 2.0 to take on iPhone 4, iPad later this year
After making comments to the contrary this summer, Hewlett-Packard is now positioning its acquired Palm webOS as a competitor to Android and iPhone 4, as well as Apple’s iPad, relegating its Windows 7 Slate PC offerings to a business tablet niche.
Palm’s Jon Rubinstein: WebOS 2.0 coming “later this year”
When HP snatched up Palm, the webOS community feared the worst. Was webOS doomed to be shelved, with HP tearing Palm apart solely for their patents? Within days, however, HP confirmed that they had no plans to abandon webOS or Palm’s smartphone business — in fact, HP wanted to put webOS onto a bunch of [...]
Palm HP gives away Pres to everyone at Brainstorm conference
The giveaways continue! Google, Microsoft, now HP — apparently, the cool thing to do is to get your product in the hands of people who may or may not even want it. HP’s Todd Bradley and Jon Rubenstein just gave away Pres to everyone in the audience at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference. I think it’s [...]
Flash 10.1 now available for mobile partners (read: not you… yet)
Hot off the press release… press… comes news that Adobe have now released the next iteration of the (near) ubiquitous web plugin out to their mobile partners.
Of course, you already know that this latest version is targeted at bringing the full version of flash to the mobile Web. While Flash lite has existed for years [...]
Adobe Flash gets its full launch on Android
After months of back-and-forth debate about whether Adobe’s Flash technology is a good fit for smartphones, Adobe is launching a full version of Flash for mobile devices, starting with Google’s Android operating system.
Adobe released a test version of Flash to the public about a month ago, but this is the real launch of the finished [...]
Rumor: HP’s WebOS Tablet "Hurricane" Coming Out In Q3 2010 [Rumor]
Here’s a brief history of the internet’s infatuation with the idea of a Web OS tablet: First we heard that HP was buying Palm. Interesting! Then we heard that the Windows 7-running HP Slate was canceled. Very interesting. Now, a post on the Examiner citing “industry insiders” says that a WebOS tablet dubbed “Hurricane” could [...]
webOS-based HP Hurricane tablet rumored for Q3
Shortly after announcing a blockbuster deal to acquire Palm, HP confessed that it would be “doubling down on webOS,” with near-term plans to “scale it across multiple connected devices.” We took the liberty at that point to assume this meant that a larger webOS-based device was at least sitting around in the rear of someone’s [...]
HP committed to building out webOS
HP just wrapped up its conference call regarding its acquisition of Palm. Based upon what we heard, HP doesn’t seem to be particularly interested in anything but webOS, which it plans to build out as a part of its connected mobile ecosystem. Here are some of the highlights of what HP has in store for [...]