Today HP laid off 275 webOS employees, with most of them being engineers, though a few QA and business development bodies managed to get chopped, too. With HP essentially killing webOS by casting it aside as an “open source project” several months back, and further cementing the belief that the platform is essentially dead, it was only a matter of time until the company took the next step in cutting down the webOS team. Why, if the open source community is doing...
And just like that the smartphone arena became a 4-way battle between Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Windows Phone. Today via press release HP dropped a bombshell: they are discontinuing development of webOS hardware, specifically webOS phones and TouchPad tablets. In similar news, HP confirmed previous rumors that they are in fact looking at possible acquisition options for Autonomy Group as well as voicing interest in spinning off their PC business. As for webOS —...
Pre-centric…PreCentral managed to snag a few screenshots of the Palm Pads tablet version of webOS 3.0. In all, Bing Maps, Music, and a couple other core apps are documented. While iOS is generally regarded as the prettiest mobile OS because of its sheer popularity, we have quite the soft spot for webOS in our hearts. Hop inside for more...
If you’re totally into the Pre 3 but could do without the keyboard, perhaps the unnamed mystery phone above will suit your needs best. As of writing, hard specs, pricing, carriers, and release date are nothing more than pure speculation. But if we must — 1+GHz single-core processor, 480 x 800 display, 1GB RAM. See, not hard. Considering Palm/HP likes to play it safe regarding hardware specs, we’d say we’re pretty spot on. Of course, we’d...
In the race to become the thinnest phone, sacrifices are often made. Sometimes, it’s done with little fanfare and clever engineering. Other times however, the reduction in size comes at too great a cost. Such is our view of the HP Veer — a miniature Palm Pre/HP Pre3 of sorts. Because of the overall thin design of the veer combined with sliding keyboard, HP simply didn’t have room to cram a 3.5mm audio port and micro-USB port. The end result is...
