As promised, Skype has launched a mobile app for webOS 2. Right now it’s exclusively available in the US for the Palm Pre 2 smartphone from Verizon Wireless. I got a chance to check out a pre-release version of the app a few months ago. The app will let users make free Skype to Skype calls, but domestic phone calls will be routed through Verizon’s… Read more »

The Pre 2 is the first phone to ship with webOS 2.x preloaded. But it turns out it’s not the only phone that can run the operating system. Despite earlier suggestions that HP would not be releasing webOS 2.x for older phones, that’s exactly what the company did last night. HP has posted a Doctor image for webOS 2.1 for European Palm Pre Plus handsets…. Read more »

When HP and Palm introduced webOS 2.0 a few months ago, the companies promised that the software wouldn’t just ship on new phones — it would also be available as an update for all existing webOS phones including the Palm Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi, and Pixi Plus. But now the company is doing an about face, saying that webOS 2.0 will not be available for… Read more »

It looks like there’s at least one hidden feature in webOS 2.0 which HP and Palm haven’t publicized: An on-screen keyboard. Right now every smartphone that runs webOS has a physical keyboard, making an on-screen keyboard somewhat unnecessary (although that hasn’t stopped some people from hacking together their own for use in landscape mode). But now it looks like webOS 2.0 does indeed have an… 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 »

The recently released Palm Pre 2 may be the first phone to get webOS 2.0, but HP has confirmed that it plans to roll out updates to all phones that are currently running webOS 1.x. That means the original Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi will receive updates soon, although it may be up to wireless carriers to decide when and how to roll out… 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 »

Skype is coming to webOS phones soon… but there are two caveats. First, you’ll need webOS 2.0 to use Skype, and second the app will only be available to Verizon Wireless customers, at least in the US. The app is designed to let users make free Skype to Skype calls over WiFi or 3G, and make inexpensive calls to international phone numbers from anywhere. If… 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 »

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 »