The future of HP’s webOS operating system remains uncertain. While the company canceled all current webOS smartphones and tablets this summer, HP has continued to push out software updates for the million or so HP TouchPads that had been sold. But it looks like the company won’t be offering any updates for the Palm Pre3 smartphone. A member of the HP developer relations team posted… Read more »

One issue which has reared its ugly head on most current tablet OSes is how to deal with legacy apps. For the upcoming HP TouchPad and the shiny, new webOS 3, the challenge is how to handle apps created using the older Palm Mojo SDK. As the Touchpad nears launch readiness, however, HP has finally revealed its response in the latest beta build of its… Read more »

With a slide-out QWERTY keyboard like the one the Palm Pre and Plus hide beneath their shells (or a permanently exposed one in the case of the Pixi) always at the ready, it’s a shame when you want to get productive on a mobile website but can’t. That’s been the case with Google Docs for some time now, because although iOS and Android users had… Read more »

When Palm introduced the Palm Pre and Pixi phones a few years ago running the shiny new webOS operating system, the company announced that it was moving away from support for legacy Palm apps. But rather than leave users in the cold after they had  spent years (and a reasonable amount of cash)  collecting PalmOS apps, Palm partnered with a company called MotionApps to release… Read more »

HP has decided to remove the Palm OS ROM from webOS 2.0 — which means that while anyone with an older version of webOS can install an app called Classic to run… well, classic PalmOS apps on the Palm Pre or Pixi, there’s officially no way to run Palm OS apps on webOS 2.0. Motion Apps, the company behind Classic has already made it clear… Read more »

I don’t normally cover smartphone hardware, but today HP started taking orders fro the Palm Pre 2, which is notable because it’s the first device to run the new webOS 2 software. The Palm Pre 2 is available for $449.99 from HP.com. That’s the price for an unlocked phone. Wireless carriers will probably start offering the phone soon, with deep discounts for customers that sign… Read more »

Sure, HP and Palm officially launched webOS 2.0 a few weeks ago, but I got my first chance to check out the new operating system at an event in New York last night, and I have some video to prove it. In the video after the break you can see how “Stacks” works to group together currently running apps that are linked. For instance, if… Read more »

While webOS was built from the ground up as a new operating system, effectively severing support for old school PalmOS apps, Palm partnered with a company called MotionApps to develop an app called Classic. Basically, it’s a PalmOS emulation layer for webOS, allowing webOS users to run classic Palm apps on the Palm Pre or Pixi. Unfortunately, it looks like the recently launched webOS 2.0… Read more »

We’ve already seen some of the goodies that the new webOS 2.0 operating system has to offer thanks to the SDK which launched a few weeks ago. But now HP has officially announced that webOS 2.0 will be ready to ship soon. Oh yeah, so will the new Palm Pre 2 smartphone, which will run the new operating system. The Pre 2 will launch this… Read more »

HP has stunned the world by acknowledging that it’s going to produce smartphones early next year using the WebOS operating system. And when I say stunned, I mean, what did you think HP was going to do after it spent $1.2 billion to purchase Palm? That said, it’s always nice to receive confirmation, and Reuters is reporting that an HP vice president said the company… Read more »