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Palm is back, this time as a TCL company

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Posted by Derek Kessler on 6 Jan 2015 6:17 pm
TCL resurrects the Palm brand
TCL is resurrecting the Palm brand with a brand-new Palm, Inc. based in California. As we reported last week, TCL purchased the Palm brand from HP late last year, although at the time it wasn't clear what the company had planned. It's not at all clear what TCL intends to do with the Palm brand, although they seem to recognize the history that the brand carries.

The Palm brand might be coming back, courtesy of Alcatel Onetouch

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Posted by Derek Kessler on 30 Dec 2014 6:45 pm
The Palm brand might be coming back, courtesy of Alcatel
It's been a good long while since we've mentioned Palm around these parts, but there's a strong possibility we could be mentioning them a lot more often if what we think is happening is in fact what is happening. By all appearances, it looks like Alcatel Onetouch has purchased the Palm brand and trademarks from HP. This comes just a few years after HP shut down webOS and eventually open sourced...

Qualcomm picks up 2,400 patents from HP and the defunct Palm

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 23 Jan 2014 4:35 pm
Qualcomm
Purchase price and specific patent numbers not known Qualcomm this afternoon announced that it has acquired some 2,400 patents and patent applications from HP and what's left of Palm Inc., which HP picked up in 2010. Qualcomm says 1,400 of those were in the U.S., with the additional thousand coming from other countries. The newly acquired portfolio, Qualcomm says, "covers technologies that...

Jon Rubinstein joins Qualcomm board of directors

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 6 May 2013 4:59 pm
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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 is back in the news as he joins the board of directors at mobile chip maker Qualcomm. Rubinstein is well regarded as one of the few people that drove the creation of modern mobile devices, likely being...

Open webOS finds its way onto Nexus 7

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Posted by Simon Sage on 31 Dec 2012 3:50 pm
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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 ASUS-made Nexus 7. A dedicated gesture area, working keyboard, brightness adjuster, and Wi-Fi connectivity are all up and running. Palm expatriates may by happy to see their old friend webOS again,...

Ask AC: Does the Nexus 4 work with the Palm Touchstone charger?

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 4 Nov 2012 11:07 am
Nexus 4 and Palm Touchstone
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 facts -- with the demise of Palm, many a user has migrated to Android, and there are tons of the little hockey puck chargers just laying around. (And if you ever got to use one, you know how awesome it was.) Plus,...

Samsung Galaxy Nexus gets gesture area care of Open webOS

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Posted by Simon Sage on 10 Oct 2012 11:45 am
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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 the developers have managed to mock up a gesture area at the bottom of the screen. As you can tell in the video, things are still very much a work in progress. Of course, since the Galaxy Nexus doesn't...

HP TouchPad originally was to be an Android tablet, ex-webOSer writes

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 6 Jun 2012 2:21 pm
HP TouchPad
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 (new to some, not so secret or surprising to others) comes from Josh Marinacci, formerly of webOS developer relations, writing in response to the epic recap from The Verge of the rise and fall of former...

Google picks up key members of HP's Enyo team

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 25 May 2012 6:46 am
Enyo
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 you're probably not aware, is the HTML framework that lived and (mostly) died with the Palm TouchPad and was later made open-source with the death of that project. Enyo also makes it relatively easy for...

Verizon Galaxy Nexus Touchstone Mod [from the forums]

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Posted by Jerry Hildenbrand on 22 Jan 2012 12:32 pm
IT'S ALIVE!
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 isn't for the faint-hearted.  It involves breaking the case open and voiding your warranty.  But AC member ohiomoto has a beautiful step-by-step to guide you through, and there's no need for a soldering iron.  Things...

HP's webOS joins Android in the land of open-source operating systems

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 9 Dec 2011 1:35 pm
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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 to continue to be active in the development and suppport of webOS," the company said. Like the core Android OS, webOS will be made available under an open-source license. Exactly what that means in regards...

EVO 3D undergoes surgery to charge on an HP Touchstone

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Posted by Anndrew Vacca on 26 Sep 2011 9:59 am
EVO 3D on a Touchstone
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 community itching to ensure that your Android smartphone gets to reap its wireless benefits. One such crafty modder is forum member Thrillhouse617, who has posted a detailed step-by-step on how to mod your EVO 3D...

Android App Review Update: Wave Launcher

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Posted by Menno on 25 Aug 2011 12:57 pm
Deus Ex Android
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 lot of new functionality, enough that we wanted to revisit the application as well as introduce it to potentially new users.Wave Launcher is an application that works in addition to your existing launcher...

Android's Q1 2011 global sales hit 36 million, analyst reports

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 19 May 2011 9:59 am
Gartner
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 devices were sold worldwide, for a 36 percent share in the period. Second highest was Symbian, at 27.5 million, and iOS devices totaled 16.9 million devices. BlackBerry was at 13 million, and Microsoft (Windows...

Even Palm fans can't stay away from Android

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Posted by Bla1ze on 21 Apr 2011 6:57 pm
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 have done all the hard work for us and were even kind enough to film it. If you happen to have a Palm Pre kicking around that you want to have some fun with, then by all means -- head on over to...

The competition: webOS 3.0 screenshots (or things that go Bing!)

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Posted by Jerry Hildenbrand on 6 Apr 2011 6:45 pm
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 things there will make Android fans do a double take. We're not about to sit here and say anyone copied anyone else -- there's only so many ways to do things right, and it looks like webOS 3.0 is doing...

HP TouchPad now official, will it woo you from Honeycomb tablets?

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Posted by Bla1ze on 9 Feb 2011 5:13 pm
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 at 1024x768, weighs a little more than 1.5 pounds and has a dual-core Qualcomm 8660 Snapdragon processor at 1.2GHZ. All of that backed up with 1GB of RAM and comes in 16GB or 32GB's. Just in case...

The competition: PreCentral blows the lid off the webOS tablet

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Posted by Chris Kerrigan on 24 Jan 2011 7:51 pm
 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 webOS Tablet, plus hits of the webOS Tablet UI -- and we'll admit it looks pretty impressive. The webOS platform has thus far been sort of left in the dark in all of the Android and iOS madness, but that may...

Epic 4G modded to charge on Palm Touchstone

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Posted by Jesse Potter on 21 Oct 2010 1:11 pm
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 new in the world of electronic devices. But there's no cool factor there, and fumbling around for your charger in the dark is no fun.Perhaps that's what drove forum member d94 to sacrifice his...

Will webOS 2.0 woo you back to the ways of Palm?

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Posted by Jared DiPane on 19 Oct 2010 1:21 pm
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 some extensive coverage all morning long, from a nice screen shot gallery, to an extensive video walkthrough, and a well-written review -- they have covered it all. Whether you are looking for a second toy...

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