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by Andrew Martonik
May 06, 2013
One of the biggest names in processors and radios adds a legend in the mobile industry to the board
After a relatively quiet period following his departure from HP in early 2012, Jon Rubinstein ...
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by Simon Sage
Dec 31, 2012
Since going open source, HP's webOS platform has been ported to a handful of Android devices, including the Galaxy Nexus and the Nook Color. The most recent addition to this niche club is the AS...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 04, 2012
One Nexus 4 question we're getting above all others (except perhaps how loud the speaker is) has to do with wireless charging. Namely, will it work with the Palm Touchstone?
Facts is fact...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 10, 2012
Last week the Samsung Galaxy Nexus became some kind of Frankensteinian abomination when the recently open-sourced webOS was shoehorned inside. Already the beast is looking a little better now that t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 06, 2012
The HP TouchPad originally ran Android. Or at least it was going to. Point is, it was an Android tablet before it was a webOS tablet before it was an Android tablet again.
That revelation (ne...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 25, 2012
A bit of a mobile software bombshell dropped overnight with news that some key members of HP's newly open-sourced Enyo team moving to Google, The Verge first reported Thursday evening. Enyo, as ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 22, 2012
If you're a dyed-in-the-wool modder, here's a great weekend project -- modifying your Verizon Galaxy Nexus to work with the HP Touchstone. I'll tell you right up front -- this one ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 09, 2011
Android just got a new friend in the open-source playground. HP today announced that the beloved-but-floundering mobile operating system will released to the open-source community.
"HP plans t...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Sep 26, 2011
One of the finest products to come out of Palm's (erm, HP's) WebOS era is the Touchstone inductive charger. In fact, the Touchstone is so great that it has attracted an active modding c...
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by Menno
Aug 25, 2011
If you're a long-time reader of Android Central, you might remember when Phil reviewed Wave Launcher back in March. Recently, the developer updated the application to version 1.8 which added a ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2011
Another day, another chart showing Android's spectacular growth. What you see above is Gartner's numbers for the first quarter of 2011. And in those three months, some 36.2 million Android device...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 21, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing So what happens exactly when you take the Palm Pre and load it up with a healthy dose of Android -- more specifically a Gingerbread AOSP. The folks over at PreCentral...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 06, 2011
Our pal Derek over at PreCentral has shown off some screenshots from the webOS 3.0 emulator today received today from an anonymous source. It sure looks like great news for webOS fans, and a few...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 09, 2011
Over at Pre Central today HP unveiled their brand new TouchPad running webOS. Although we're rather XOOM focused here there is no denying the new TouchPad is fine piece of hardware. A 9.7-inch display...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Jan 24, 2011
It looks like the tablet playing field is about to get a lot more competitive. Our good friends over at PreCentral got their hands on some information regarding HP's plans and specs for the webO...
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by Jesse Potter
Oct 21, 2010
I think we can admit that we're all just a bit jealous of Palm's Touchstone charging station. The act of simply plugging your phone into its charger doesn't pose any real challenge, and it's nothing n...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 19, 2010
It's always good to pay attention to the competition, and what they have to offer, and today -- finally -- webOS 2.0 broke out of its shell. Our friends over at PreCentral have been bringing som...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 04, 2010
OK, all you Palm defectors (and we know who you are). Listen up. Our pals at PreCentral broke the news that the boys and girls in Sunnyvale may be working on a keyboardless device, codenamed &qu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 09, 2010
In case we needed a visual demonstration of irony, HP's new eReader (dubbed the Zeen) will be running the Android OS. While most details are unknown until the December 31 lifting of the FCC conf...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2010
So the lads and lassies at Laptop Mag are doing their Battle of Champions as a follow-up to the Smartphone March Madness tournament. And in the finals just happen to the Palm Pre Plus and the Droid ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
Android remains the No. 2 smartphone operating system worldwide AdMob -- the company that serves up a good many of the ads you see in mobile applications (about 23,000) and that was bought by Google ...
Article
by Android Central
Jun 18, 2010
(Ed. Note: Craig Froehle and Don Ferguson are longtime friends of us here at Android Central and Pre Central. They're experts in the Palm OS of old and the webOS of new. And so when they offered...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jun 15, 2010
Oh, what the hell. We had the first hands-on with the HTC Aria, the Droid X got into Engadget's hands, the myTouch 3G Slide was rooted, and the Evo 4G is perched atop the Palm Touchstone inducti...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 15, 2010
There it is, folks. The Sprint Evo 4G rewired to work on the Palm Touchstone inductive charger. No more plugging in the phone to keep it juiced -- which with the Evo you tend to have to do a bunch. Al...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 13, 2010
We've been watching this discussion with interest for a little while now, and it appears that it's finally working. A gent who goes by infinitemods has hacked the back of his Evo 4G so that it charge...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 03, 2010
A couple of days ago we asked you which platform you were leaving to join the ranks of Android with the Evo 4G. We got more than 12,000 responses, and there was a clear winner (or loser, actually).&nb...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2010
It's not much of a secret, judging by all the talk in our Evo 4G forums, that a lot of you folks out there are getting ready to jump one ship or another to join the ranks of Android with the Sprint ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 27, 2010
You might have heard us (erm, OK, me) gush on occasion about certain aspects of Palm's webOS user interface. Now let us (erm, me again) gush a little about Matias Duarte, who has left Palm and is now ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 25, 2010
We hear ya. There are a lot of you out there on Sprint who are looking at your Palm Pre and wondering how it would be to hold the Evo 4G in its place. Ask and ye shall receive. After the break are mor...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 28, 2010
HP's buying Palm, in case you haven't heard, for $1.2 billion. While we doubt many of you were waiting up nights for the Compaq Airlife 100, HP's Android-powered netbook that we took a look at back at...
