Items tagged with: htc

  

webOS 3.0 booted onto Evo 3D, cats found to be quite accepting of dogs

As was heavily implied in HP’s announcement that they’re open-sourcing webOS, there are a lot of open source developers already hard at work on our favorite mobile OS. The group is led by Rod Whitby of

News - Derek Kessler - Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:13:00 EST -
  

HP using TouchPad to test Windows 8, meeting with webOS buyers? [rumor]

Get your salt shakers ready, folks, because it’s rumor time. Clayton Morris is back with another report from deep inside the bowels of HP, this time claiming that HP is using their supply of ARM-powered

Rumors - Derek Kessler - Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:20:00 EDT -
  

HTC considered, decided against, purchasing webOS. Again.

It’s a new week, so that means it’s time for us to cross another potential suitor off the “Who will purchase webOS?” list. This time it’s HTC, who had made noise a few weeks back about possibly purchasing

News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:06:00 EDT -
  

Analyst says Facebook should get in on the webOS game

It's a bid that would be unusual, to say the least, but an analyst from Jeffries & Co, Peter Misek, has come to the conclusion that HP should at least license out webOS to Facebook, if not sell the

News - Tim Stiffler-Dean - Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:46:00 EDT -
  

HTC giving consideration to buying its own OS

Motorola has Android, Nokia has Windows Phone 7, and even Samsung has Bada. There’s a slew of other smartphone manufacturers out there, but none in so potentially as vulnerable of a position as HTC. They

News, Rumors - Derek Kessler - Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:26:00 EDT -
  

Could there be a suitor for webOS?

We’ve been looking for a silver lining in today’s HP squall line. HP’s done making webOS devices, and they might continue working on webOS while exploring their options with what to do with the software

Editorials - Derek Kessler - Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:41:00 EDT -
  

Google buying Motorola for $12.5 billion, proving vertical integration is the way to go

Google this morning announced that they are purchasing Motorola Mobility (the recently-spun-off cellular arm of Motorola) to the tune of $12.5 billion. The purchase, expected to close around the end of

Editorials, News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:09:00 EDT -
  

HTC strikes exclusive deal for Beats Audio smartphones, we wonder why it's not HP

We’ll be honest, we’re fans of the work HTC’s managed over the past few years. It might be a series of black-fronted slabs with the occasional horizontal slider or 3D camera, but overall they’re solid

News - Derek Kessler - Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:59:00 EDT -
  

So, what about the Pre3? Yeah, we hear you: Sprint.

Two weeks ago my colleague Tim Stiffler-Dean wrote up an excellent editorial on the HP Pre3 and how we need to have patience. After all, relationships between carriers and manufacturers take time, as does

Editorials - Derek Kessler - Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EDT -
  

HP CEO hints at licensing webOS to third parties [update: video!]

On the stage at the D9 conference, CEO Leo Apotheker hasn't dropped any bombshells except, well, this: a response to the folks at This is my next:

News - Dieter Bohn - Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:16:00 EDT -