Rumors about HPs planned WebOS-running tablets continue to emerge. Fox has reported that HP is having trouble selecting a name, and that Sprint may be a partner. – Hewlett-Packard appears to have a blabber mouth in its ranks
that Fox News is happily exploiting.
According to the news site, HP reportedly held an emergency company meeting to
remind employees that sharing details about its top-secret tablet projects said
to be known
internally as “Topaz” a…
News Analysis: Hewlett-Packard has confirmed it will finally disclose the design details about its long-anticipated WebOS tablets at a Feb. 9 media briefing. To succeed, the devices will need all of HP’s long experience with tablet design. – If all of the usual sources are right, which sometimes happen,
Hewlett-Packard will finally announce its long-awaited iPad competitor on Feb.
9. The new WebOS-based device would be about the same size as Apple’s iPad, but
it would run on an updated version of Palm’s highly regarded WebOS.
Th…
Details have emerged about the WebOS tablets HP is rumored to be introducing Feb. 9. Professional-quality sound and inductive charging are among them. – Curious about the WebOS-running devices that Hewlett-Packard is expected to
introduce at its Feb. 9 event? According to sources trusted by Engadget, a few smartphones
can be expected, along with two tablets the “Topaz” and the more petite
“Opal.” In a Jan. 19 report, the tech site offered new, …
HP is reportedly planning to introduce a netbook running Palm’s WebOS, in addition to tablets and smartphones. – Hewlett-Packard
is expected to soon introduce a tablet running WebOS, as well as a smartphone.
But a netbook? According to Jan. 17 report from Ars Technica, netbooks are
among the planned HP devices that will not only run the company’s prized new
mobile OS, but will seamlessly interact.
HP
r…
HPs Todd Bradley, in a Jan. 7 interview with CNBC, all but confirmed that HP will show off a WebOS-running tablet at its planned Feb. 9 event in San Francisco. – The expectation that Hewlett-Packard will finally introduce a WebOS-running tablet (or tablets)
at its planned Feb. 9 event was all but confirmed by Todd Bradley,
executive vice president of HPs Personal Systems Group, during a
recent television interview.
In the segment aired, Jan. 7 from the …
HP has invited the press to a WebOS announcement, though not at CES but on Feb. 9. The wording of the invite also hints there may be more than one device. – Hewlett-Packard has passed around invitations to a WebOS
event Feb. 9 that appears to mean the introduction of its tablet is
finally imminent. That said, dont expect to see any hints of an HP
tablet at this weeks Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
More exactly, tablets may be the case at th…
HP has applied to trademark the names Gyst, Veer and Myte, leading to speculation that these will be the names of the WebOS-running smartphones that it has promised for 2011. – Gyst, Veer and Myte may be the names of the planned Hewlett-Packard
WebOS-running smartphones headed for retail shelves in 2011. The PC maker,
which threw itself into the smartphone arena earlier this year with its $1.2
billion acquisition of Palm, applied for trademarks on the names with the U.S…
HPs WebOS tablet is expected to drop in March, Forbes reported citing BMO Capital Markets Keith Bachman. HPs Rubinstein has only offered “early 2011” as a time frame. – Jon Rubinstein, the head of Hewlett-Packards Palm division has rather lamely, or at least vaguely, confirmed that an HP tablet running WebOS will arrive in “early 2011.” Thanks to an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, however, that date has been narrowed down to March.
Analyst Keith Bachman, after me…
Security researchers have uncovered three flaws in the Linux-based webOS platform used in Palm devices. – Security researchers uncovered critical flaws in webOS, including a cross-site scripting issue that could be used to gain remote control of devices and possibly build a botnet.
WebOS is the operating system used in Palm smartphones. The issues were uncovered by Orlando Barrera and Daniel Herrera of…
Hewlett-Packard’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm is beginning to trickle down to the hardware and software level, with the upcoming release of the Palm Pre 2 on Verizon Wireless. While HP and Verizon have declined to offer exact pricing and a launch date, sample copies of the Palm Pre 2 are beginning to circulate at tech shows and other venues. The improvements to the Palm Pre indicate that HP is serious about combating Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7, the Apple iPhone and the ever-expanding family of Google Android devices. The Palm Pre 2 includes both a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard and a 3.1-inch multitouch display. In terms of operating systems, HP WebOS 2.0 is supposedly faster than the original Palm WebOS, and boasts a high degree of integration with services such as Facebook and Microsoft Exchange. The Palm Pre 2 certainly feels more streamlined and "solid" than its predecessor, which received mostly positive reviews for its design but complaints from a subset of users over supposedly shoddy manufacture& i.e., the "Oreo effect," where the sliding mechanism would partially unhinge. Will the revived Palm Pre succeed in a crowded marketplace? That remains to be seen. But HP will reportedly port WebOS onto other form factors, such as tablet PCs. – …
HP is working on getting Palm’s WebOS-based products to market, recently releasing a new version of the Pre and promising new WebOS-based products soon. But is it too late for WebOS? Here, Knowledge Center analyst Jack E. Gold discusses WebOS and its place in today’s very crowded smartphone market. – HP, working from its recent acquisition of Palm, has released its first new smartphone device to the market. The new Pre looks substantial and runs the latest version of WebOS, a modern operating system that could have been a real contender if it was out one to two years earlier.
But is WebOS a cre…
HP has introduced WebOS 2.0, a "significant" update to the Palm OS. It will debut on the new Pre 2 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network in "the coming months." – Hewlett-Packard has introduced WebOS 2.0, the long-promised update to the
open source OS it acquired during its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in July.
Additionally, HP, which has been keen
to rejoin the lucrative smartphone market, introduced the Palm Pre 2 a
speedier, updated version of the …
French carrier SFR advertised a Palm Pre 2 on its Website, raising speculation that the Pre 2 is the webOS-running device HP has slated for early 2011. – Hewlett-Packards first WebOS-running smartphone looks to be a Palm Pre 2.
SFR, the second-largest mobile carrier in France, touted the device
on its Website Oct. 12, before apparently noting its faux pas and
pulling the page though not before PreCentral.net grabbed a screenshot.
The Palm Pre 2…
HP smartphones running webOS will come to market in early 2011, an HP executive reportedly confirmed. webOS was a major motivator of HPs $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. – Hewlett-Packard wants to do what Palm could not: Build a strong business around webOS-based smartphones. The PC giant, which purchased Palm earlier this year,
will begin introducing smartphones running the operating system in
early 2011, Reuters reported Oct. 6, citing comments by Eric Cador,
sen…
HP confirms that a "product" running Palm WebOS will debut in early 2011. Although confirmed details are scarce, the general assumption is that HP will launch WebOS on a tablet PC. – Hewlett-Packard confirmed during its Aug. 19 earnings call that a device
running its recently acquired Palm WebOS operating system will ship sometime in
early 2011. Although the company executive who confirmed the quot;product quot;
offered no other details, the general assumption is that HP wil…
Dell launched its 5-inch Streak device Aug. 13, as well as a Mobile Applications Store for devices running Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, WebOS and Symbian operating systems. – The Dell Streak is now available at Dell.com, enabling consumers in the United States to get on board with the smartphone-meets-tablet device that O2 customers in the United Kingdom have been enjoying since early June. lt;
The Streak, which became available for pre-sale Aug. 12, is priced
at $…
Dell launched its 5-inch Streak device Aug. 13, as well as a Mobile Applications Store for devices running Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, WebOS and Symbian operating systems. – The Dell Streak is now available at Dell.com, enabling consumers in the United States to get on board with the smartphone-meets-tablet device that O2 customers in the United Kingdom have been enjoying since early June. lt;
The Streak, which became available for pre-sale Aug. 12, is priced at $5…
Little is known about the WebOS-based tablet HP has in the works, though a recent report, citing trusted sources at a recent company-wide meeting, says the iPad competitor will launch the first quarter of 2011. – Hewlett-Packard will launch its WebOS-based tablet during the first quarter of 2011, according to a report in Engadget, citing “several trusted sources.”
Since HP purchased smartphone-maker Palm July 1, and with it the
highly lauded WebOS mobile platform, theres been much talk of an iPad
compet…
Palm’s WebOS is for now the only operating system that Hewlett-Packard will be offering on its planned smartphones, according to an HP executive. This means saying no thanks to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. – Hewlett-Packard will exclusively run Palm’s WebOS software on its
anticipated smartphone line, HP Executive Vice President Todd Bradley told CNBC.
The July 23 announcement means that while HP, the world’s top PC maker, may
be Microsoft’s biggest customer, it will be passing up Microsoft’s newes…
HP believes the nascent tablet market can support multiple devices, and for now plans to release tablets running Windows 7 and Palms WebOS, VP Todd Bradley has confirmed. – Turns out the rumor mill did rather good work of parsing together
Hewlett-Packards tablet plans. Still, Todd Bradley, executive vice
president of HPs personal system group, and Jon Rubinstein, the former
CEO of Palm, now reporting to Bradley, offered confirmation of the
companys intentions at th…
