Items tagged with: palm

  

HP introduced the Veer, Pre3, and TouchPad one year ago today

This time last year, Derek, Dieter, and Riz were running around San Francisco's Fort Mason Center covering what turned out to be the biggest planned event in the history of webOS. It was the coming out

Editorials - Derek Kessler - Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:20:00 EST -
  

HP to shuffle webOS group out of Palm campus, sending to Cupertino [exclusive]

Over the past several months we've watched HP's webOS work force get chopped in half and suffer some pretty serious attrition, all thanks to HP's former lack-of-a-plan. That's now getting resolved, but

News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:11:00 EST -
  

The webOS Wish List: Online account management

Here's something we've been practically begging to get for three years now: online account management. Today, if you go to hpwebos.com/account and log in with your webOA Account credentials you get just

Editorials - Derek Kessler - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:42:00 EST -
  

webOS 2.2.4 comes over-the-air for Pre3 owners [update: GSM and FrankenPre 2 as well!]

Didn't jump on the webOS 2.2.4 Doctor bandwagon yesterday? Can't say we blame you for waiting for the possibility of the update for your Pre3 to come over the air. Your patience has paid off, dear reader

News - Derek Kessler - Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:12:00 EST -
  

webOS 2.2.4 rolling out to limited selection of Pre 2 phones, brings offerings of Skype and TouchPad messaging

We were beginning to think this day would never again come: a webOS phone has received a webOS update from HP. It's the Palm Pre 2 that's getting some love, at least in a limited fashion, with an update

News - Derek Kessler - Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:52:00 EST -
  

Contract-free Sprint Pixi available today only for $29.99

Looking for the smallest and lightest webOS handset you can buy? Want one on Sprint? Okay without Wi-Fi? Then have we got a deal for you - the Sprint Palm Pixi has popped up on daily deal site 1saleaday

News - Derek Kessler - Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:23:00 EST -
  

The multi-layer wave launcher that could have been

The wave launcher bar is one of our favorite underappreciated features of webOS (and one we wish would come back to webOS tablets). Don’t know what we’re talking about? Drag up from the gesture area –

News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:10:00 EST -
  

Shut-down of webOS "imminent"? Not so fast... [rumor]

Rumors and speculation are a funny thing. It’s very easy to spin an alarming headline out of a speculative quote by somebody who may or may not know anything. Take today’s story out of The Guardian as

Rumors - Derek Kessler - Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:55:00 EDT -
  

Whitman: We'll make a decision on webOS "in the next few months"

Today’s conference call about HP’s decision to not perform a self-lobotomy revealed that the HP leadership had come to realize something the rest of us realized when the decision to split off the Personal

News - Derek Kessler - Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:59:00 EDT -
  

YouTube brings HTML5 video to webOS two years too late

If you’re still running webOS 1.4.5 on your Pre, Pixi, or the Plus variants of each, you might have noticed something new in your browsing of the internet over the past several days: playable YouTube videos

News - Derek Kessler - Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:20:00 EDT -