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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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 15, 2012
You're seeing that right -- it's Open webOS running on our old friend the Nook Color. Yes, it's incomplete, and it's laggy, but it's also a pretty damned beautiful sight if you&#...
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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
Oct 04, 2012
We're not quite up to a flashable build just yet -- and we're still along way from using this as a daily driver -- but the source code has been posted to github to for an Open webOS por...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 01, 2012
You're going to start seeing a lot more of this, we think, now that Open webOS has been released. Some fun hackery is ahead.
Source: @stroughtonsmith; via webOS Nation
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 28, 2012
The folks at WebOS Ports have released a video of open webOS booting and running on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus today, hours after HP announced the code release. As we understand it, the device boot...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 17, 2012
So you bought an HP TouchPad, threw Android on it (to make it worth a damn), and now you think you're done? You're not. It ain't done until you theme the moboot screen! And if you're...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 27, 2012
When BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 was we released were a little surprised to find out that it was indeed making use of SwiftKey for it's new auto-correct functionality. The latest announcement fro...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2012
Former eBay CEO, 2010 California gubernatorial candidate and current president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Meg Whitman took the stage at HP's Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas today. Sh...
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by Derek Kessler
Jan 26, 2012
You may or may not have seen HP's plans from last month on open-sourcing webOS. We did, and had a few words to say ourselves. HP has now good on releasing a roadmap for its open-source release a...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 26, 2012
Now that HP has open sourced webOS and announced their Enyo 2.0 framework plenty of webOS developers have been digging through the code. Given the nature of how Enyo works and it's compatibility...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 18, 2011
Now that webOS is all but dead, we're starting to see not only the end users defect to Android, but developers as well. And one of the more popular webOS Twitter apps is headed this way, to...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 09, 2011
We've all seen this by now -- it's webOS booted up on an EVO 3D, and it's got everyone in a tizzy. While webOS fans who have spent decades (it seems like decades anyway) having the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 09, 2011
You might have heard -- webOS just got open-sourced today by HP, joining the world of great, free software like Ubuntu, Firefox, and Android. It's a pretty big deal for some people, includ...
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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 Tim Stiffler-Dean
Nov 08, 2011
Back where I come from, the world of webOS and the PreCentral Nation, Villo.net has been a service used by more than a few great developers to bring easy-to-implement cloud services to their applica...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 05, 2011
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If you bought a TouchPad during the fire sale, and decided that you like using webOS while waiting for hackers to get a full Android port up and running, news in th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 02, 2011
Sitting up nights worried that Samsung might hop on the webOS bandwagon and ditch Android? There's about as much chance of that happening as there is of people properly capitalizing webOS. Samsun...
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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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 21, 2011
At $99 bucks, the HP TouchPad would make one hell of an Android Tablet. It has about the same basic internals of the HTC EVO 3D, a decent 1024x768 IPS display, and after the news that HP wa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 19, 2011
And those three little birds looked so innocent. ... Viewsonic this afternoon penned a few paragraphs to remind us all that it still makes Windows and Android tablets amid the demise of webOS har...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 18, 2011
In a shocking development, HP has announced that they plan to discountinue operations for webOS devices, to include the TouchPad and webOS phones. This leaves Apple, RIM, and Microsoft as the sm...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jul 28, 2011
Android is the top operating system in the United States, according to June data just released by Nielsen. Android hold a 39 percent share of the U.S. smartphone market, with iOS coming in second with...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 29, 2011
In just a day or so the HP TouchPad will be available in stores, giving hungry webOS fans something to feast on. Today, our pal Derek Kessler at PreCentral.net has unleashed his monster Tou...
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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...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 04, 2011
It's been a little while since we've seen any webOS aping on Android. And now we have Wave Launcher, which brings the webOS wave launcher (thus the name) feature to Android. It's pretty slick. Touch ...
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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...
