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When Hewlett-Packard purchased Palm for more than $1 billion earlier this year there were many questions remaining on what will happen to the “Palm” name and brand. Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of the standalone Palm, indicated the name may soon be going the way of the dodo but it will still be delivering cool…
One of the biggest features we were hoping for with Palm webOS 2.0 was a virtual software keyboard but we haven’t heard much about this … until now. The good folks at PreCentral did some digging with the latest webOS 2.0 software and found the virtual keyboard is alive and well. It’s still kind of…
Palm and HP presumably have a plan to lift webOS out of its abyss, but recent U.S. smartphone market analysis suggests the merged company will have an insurmountable task in front of them. According to the latest Nielsen data, Palm OS lays claim to a meager 1.3% of the U.S smartphone market share. To make…
It’s been a while since we talked about any webOS app. That said, we’re glad to report that the market isn’t completely dead, with a company called Tamoggemon releasing the Funny Advent Calendar for the Palm Pre and Pixi smartphones. The application is made to add some fun to the popular paper advent calendars, which…
I may have my sights set on the Notion Ink Adam but if any one tablet could possibly sway me away from all that Pixel Qi goodness it’s the HP webOS tablet, also known as the PalmPad. Rumor has it that HP has chosen Inventec as the tablet’s manufacturer and it may be producing 6-7…
Hewlett-Packard will be moving its MediaSmart Server team into the Palm unit in an effort to boost the multimedia capabilities of webOS. “We’ll put the MediaSmart Server team’s multimedia and entertainment application experience toward developing the WebOS ecosystem,” said Marlene Somsak, an HP spokeswoman, in an e-mail to PC World. If you don’t know, the…
While we were looking at the numbers that Pingdom had commissioned from StatCounter regarding global smartphone OS marketshare based on web usage by region, we noticed that StatCounter also had some more recent mobile web usage data that showed BlackBerry being more popular than iOS (which includes iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) in the U.S.…
Palm’s webOS may or may not take off now that the once prestigious company is under HP’s wing, but one thing is certain: applications make or break a platform these days. The technology press love citing large numbers, whether it be the total number of apps available, apps downloaded, devices activated, whatever. Big numbers make…
It’s pretty rare for a mobile operating system to come out of the gates with so much polish and elegance, but webOS did just that. Unfortunately, it wasn’t on the greatest hardware and most users complained of battery life on the Palm Pre and Pixi. Now that webOS 2.0 is just about done marinating, and…
We’ve heard about the Palm Mansion before but the latest rumor suggests that this will be a touch-only device that sports a massive 5-inch display. There aren’t many details to go on, but the Palm Mansion should have that large screen with a 480 x 800 resolution and it is on track for the first…