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After HP killed webOS and put the TouchPad on a deep, deep discount, I couldn’t help but feel like a sucker. You see friends, I did pick up a TouchPad about a week and a half ago … for $400. It was definitely a bad decision in hindsight and it also made me realize that…
Well, HP quickly pulled the plug on HP and it liquidated its webOS TouchPad by offering the tablet for as low as $99. The device is sold out in many places, so we want to know if you bought one? I actually bought one about two weeks ago … at nearly full price. While that…
You never really wanted an HP TouchPad. Or maybe you did, but it was just too damn expensive, given other options. Well, now the decision has just been made for you. Since HP announced that webOS is pretty much dead and that it will no longer be making any hardware to support the platform, something…
HP is killing off its webOS devices and it looks like the end of the line for the platform. Let’s take a look back at how it came to be and why we’re now looking at the end of the line. Palm was in the smartphone game before it was cool with its Treo lineup…
Following on Motorola being snatched up by Google, this week isn’t short of surprises. HP has announced that they’re going to “discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones”, but “HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward.” Sure, webOS had a big climb to…
WebOS is dead. I wondered what HP spinning off its hardware division would mean for webOS and I tried to find a bit of optimism. Well, HP said it is killing its TouchPad and other webOS devices. In the press release where it announced that it is negotiating to buy the Autonomy company, it slipped…
Whoa. Bloomberg is reporting that HP plans to spin off its PC and hardware division while also spending $10 billion to buy Autonomy and become an enterprise solutions company. It’s definitely still a rumor but it appears to have some credibility. If HP spins off its hardware, what would this mean for webOS? As you…
Best Buy, one of America’s largest brick and mortar stores supplying consumers with home and portable electronics, videogames, and just about anything else that runs on electricity, is rumored to have taken order of roughly 270,000 units of the HP TouchPad. Despite the new permanent $100 price cut, and the software updates that have gone…
The Google, Motorola deal is going to have a huge impact on Android but it may also unintentionally supercharge some of its competitors and I believe that HP’s webOS could use this as a much-needed opportunity to boost its platform. The GoogMoto combination will provide Google with many patents that it needs to defend Android…
Those of you waiting to grab yourself the TouchPad 4G will be glad to know that HP’s tablet has finally hit the FCC where engineers are testing its radiation levels to ensure it’s safe to use in the U.S. of A. As we reported earlier, the device should be launched later this month, running on…