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When we first got a look at the HP TouchPad webOS tablet we were excited but that was muted because we felt it could be released in about six months. A new report suggests that the webOS iPad competitor could be landing in stores as early as April. According to the hit-or-miss DigiTimes, the company…
webOS fans who don’t want to wait for the HP Pre 3 or perhaps the Veer may go for the Pre 2 in the meantime. The webOS 2.0-powered device is landing on Verizon Wireless tomorrow (February 17th), when you will be able to grab it for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in Verizon Wireless rebate and…
There’s been a terrible amount of confusion regarding HP’s statement regarding webOS on personal computers. Many eager to read between the lines, trying to find something there that wasn’t, thought HP was going to ship personal computers with webOS as the main operating system. The Seattle Times interviewed HP CTO Phil McKinney to find out…
I’m sure you’ve already checked out our hands-on video of the just-announced HP TouchPad webOS tablet but we couldn’t resist getting another taste of the webOS tablet at Mobile World Congress. The HP TouchPad webOS tablet has a 9.7-inch display, a 1.2-GHz dual-core SnapDragon processor from Qualcomm, 512 MB of RAM, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera…
In news that surprised no one, Amazon announced that it will launch its Kindle app for HP TouchPad. Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for webOS will allow users to “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” – on Kindle devices as well as other mobile and computer platforms like iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, Windows Phone…
HP announced a new line of devices yesterday during its event, and today it is quickly following up with webOS 3.0 SDK. After seeing the Pre 3 and Veer, I thought, “OK, they seem like decent successors to the Palm Pre and Pixi.” But when I saw the TouchPad, it was a different story. Here…
This morning Palm HP announced three devices, spanning from the teeny-tiny to the reasonably huge. At the lower end, there’s the Veer, which sports a 2.6-inch display and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, complete with HSPA+ connectivity. Then there’s the Pre 3, which boasts a bigger display than its predecessor, and a much sharper resolution. The…
Hopefully, you were following our live blog earlier today and you’d know that HP just introduced the webOS TouchPad to go against the iPad and the multitude of Android tablets that will be soon hitting the market. We got a chance to get a demonstration of the webOS tablet and it looks like a well-designed…
The HP webOS event today went off like gangbusters, and we were excited to see that HP has been busy building out their next generation of Palm devices, powered by webOS – the Palm Pre 3, the TouchPad, and the smaller Palm Veer. We had a chance to go hands-on with the all-new Palm Pre…
At HP’s event this morning (liveblog ongoing), it was confirmed that the long-awaited Palm Pre 2 would be available for pre-order on Verizon starting tomorrow. Of course, now that they’ve announced the Pre 3, it’s hard to imagine anyone with an iota of patience wanting to pick up the Pre 2. As for the actual…