Sep 07

WebOS 2.0 beta screenshot extravaganza

Posted in: HP, palm, Today's Chili, webos

We’ve heard about Palm’s big plans for webOS 2.0 — heck, we’ve even seen a handful of pictures here or there. And now we’ve been graced with lots, lots more. We’re still not sure the exact origins, as they both came to us unsourced at around the same time. But, be it PreCentral forums or Chinese site Crooked neck (a.k.a. Wibozi), we’re still graced with two dozen new screenshots that showcase features beyond Stacks and Just Type. Plenty of extra services are on display, including favorites like Dropbox and head-scratchers like MobileMe (we know Palm has something of an Apple complex, but the benefits of MobileMe are pretty minimal beyond iPhone integration). There’s also default app selection for filetypes, which is a welcome addition we’ve enjoyed on our Android sets. Just in case all the screenshots go poof, we’ve got them in a gallery below. Let your imagination run wild, or at least in a bigger fence.

[Thanks, kkhanmd]

Gallery: WebOS 2.0 beta 1 screens

WebOS 2.0 beta screenshot extravaganza originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 05

PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video)

Posted in: hack, Hacks, homebrew, jailbreak, mod, mods, nokia, open source, opensource, palm, palm pre, PalmPre, playstation 3, Playstation3, pre, ps3, sony, Today's Chili, video

Two weeks ago you’d have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key. Four days ago open-source software let you roll your own. Today, there’s no need for any of that — you can hack your PS3 with a tethered smartphone. Working closely with the PSGroove team, hacker Kakaroto adapted the same jailbreak to the Nokia N900, and the open-source community lost no time porting it to the Palm Pre as well. If the videos after the break are any indication, both versions work just as well as the original, and you too can get your game on with downloads and detailed instructions at the source links below.

Sadly, the aforementioned Australian importer OzModChips is a casualty of this little story, with all its shipments of the PS Jailbreak dongle seized (and the item subject to injunction) by an Australian court, but we suppose knowing its product has enabled the hardware hacking community thus might somewhat soften the blow.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 01

Palm Previews WebOS 2.0: Tablet Ready?

Posted in: HP, palm, Tablets and E-Readers, Today's Chili, webos

Since his company was bought out by HP, Jon Rubinstein and what remains of the Palm team have kept busy. Due out later this year is WebOS 2.0, the OS that we expect HP to use on a tablet device, and Palm has given us a sneak-peek of what’s new.

Stack was the thing we liked best about the original WebOS. It puts each app or task onto a “card” and lets you swoosh them around the screen to either stack them out of the way or flip between tasks. New in 2.0 is auto-stacking, which will group card by type. Think iOS folders, only with running windows instead of apps.

The next biggest change is with Quick Actions, the universal search function. If you have ever used an application launcher like Quicksilver or LaunchBar on the Mac, or Launchy on the PC, you’ll know what to expect.

Tap the rebranded Just Type box on the home screen (it is always there) and, well, just type. You can launch apps, search contacts and so on, but now Just Type is opened up to third party apps, letting you search within them. This is big, and something iOS still doesn’t do.

There are more tweaks and additions detailed over at Pre Central, but the last one we’ll look at is call “Exhibition”. Essentially, this lets you choose an app to display when the Pre (or whatever device it ends up on) is charging in a dock. Thus you could display a Twitter stream, a weather widget or anything else. I like this one a lot.

The WebOS is looking more and more suitable for a tablet. It has the simplicity and polish of Apple iOS which will appeal to a mainstream user: something that Android is getting closer to, and Windows is hopelessly lacking. Look out for the WebOS when it comes: it could be the first proper tablet since the iPad.

webOS 2.0 details: Stacks, Just Type, Exhibition, and more! [Pre Central via ★]

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Aug 31

Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today

Posted in: palm, sdk, Today's Chili, webos

Palm fans, get your party hats on. Today the company is announcing the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0, which means we’re getting dangerously close to a proper 2.0 release for devices. And who knows… maybe the phone-maker will decide to throw a new device our way to go along with the OS. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Starting tomorrow, a select (though rather wide, says Palm) group of developers will be able to start toying around with the latest and greatest SDK for the company’s mobile operating system, and it looks like the new software brings some tasty morsels to the table that you’re definitely going to want to chow down on. We got the scoop directly from Palm on just exactly what kind of changes you’ll be seeing in the first version of 2.0, and we’ve rounded them up in a neatly digestible form below, so read on after the break and get the full story.

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Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 31

Palm WebOS 2.0: Now This Is Multitasking [Palm]

Posted in: HP, palm, palm pre, pre, Smartphones, Today's Chili, top, webos

WebOS 2.0. It’s really happening, and it’s coming soon. Amidst the turmoil and the headlines and the doom-dropping, Palm’s been busy: WebOS 2.0 looks like it’ll be better than the original in basically every way. More »

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Aug 26

Palm Pre fake tires of waiting for webOS 2.0, takes up iOS and BlackBerry OS lookalikes instead

Posted in: BlackBerry, ios, kirf, palm, palm pre, PalmPre, pre, qwerty, slider, Today's Chili

We feel your pain: you love your BlackBerry at work and your iPhone for personal use, but as hardware goes, nothing gets your motor running quite like the Pre’s pebble-esque shell. Trust us, we’ve all been there! Well, a new clone out of China seeks solve all your technological woes by combining an iOS-inspired user interface and the Pre’s body — with an iPhone home button thrown in for good measure, of course — and when the time comes to throw on the suit and tie and head to work, you can switch the UI over to BlackBerry mode. As far as we can tell, it still functions like an iOS clone here, but at least the skin will remind you of the good ol’ Bold days. Looks like you can’t buy this thing online, but considering how well the software works in most of these things, it’s probably for the best.

Palm Pre fake tires of waiting for webOS 2.0, takes up iOS and BlackBerry OS lookalikes instead originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 26

HP’s in-house webOS competition yields about 500 apps, says CTO

Posted in: app, apps, HP, palm, Today's Chili, webos

A little backstory: HP has an annual in-house event for its employees called TechCon, and this year a challenge was issued to the engineers to make the best webOS app (free phones were offered as incentive). Got that? Good. This week, HP CTO Phil McKinney had a brief chat with Pre Central over Twitter, where he revealed that the contest culminated in about 500 produced apps, and that “[they] are in the final stage of selecting ‘best app’ winners.” Does that mean we should expect a large bump to the current catalog of programs? We can’t say for sure, but we wouldn’t be surprised if many of these are already available to download. Additionally, we can’t say anything as for the overall quality of submissions. Edging closer to the 4,000-app milestone is great and all but not if it includes 250 different Angry Birds clones. Still, we’re ever-hopeful and can’t wait to see what exactly it was that came from the internal coding challenge.

HP’s in-house webOS competition yields about 500 apps, says CTO originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 21

Aceeca’s PalmOS-based PDA32 gets reviewed, albeit in prototype form

Posted in: palm, reviewed, Today's Chili

Ah, the dream does live on. If we’re being straight with you, we didn’t exactly have the highest hopes for Aceeca’s PDA32 to ever make it out of the dreamworld in which it was created, but apparently it’s well on its well to commercialization. For reasons unknown, of course. The good folks over at TamsBlog managed to get ahold of a prototype device, powered by one of yesteryear’s greatest operating systems and encased in a comically large shell. It’s important to note that this isn’t a finalized retail unit, but it’s still fairly fascinating that an object like the one you’re looking at above is actually about to ship in the year 2010 A.D. The overview is about what you’d expect, noting that the screen is above average, the enclosure itself is downright “fat,” and the whole thing seems far more sensible in the enterprise realm than the consumer one. Sadly, there’s no real talk of software performance, but we suspect that’ll come when the final product ships out. Hit the source link for a fascinating look at a device you’ll never buy.

Aceeca’s PalmOS-based PDA32 gets reviewed, albeit in prototype form originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 19

HP confirms webOS tablet for ‘early 2011’

Posted in: hewlett-packard, HewlettPackard, HP, palm, tablet, tablets, Today's Chili, webos

We’d heard HP’s Todd Bradley had confidentially told employees that a webOS tablet would arrive in Q1 2011, but now the man’s gone on the record in the company’s Q3 2010 earnings call. “You’ll see us with a Microsoft product out in the near future and a webOS-based product in early 2011,” he told investors and analysts in response to a direct question about tablets this afternoon, adding that potential slates were part of the reason HP bought Palm in the first place. Now, we’re not financial experts, but we’ve heard it’s typically a good idea not to promise things to your shareholders if you don’t intend to deliver. In other words, there’s a good bet the PalmPad is actually not an imaginary friend our subconscious created after Mark Hurd’s hateful words in June.

[Thanks, Robert]

HP confirms webOS tablet for ‘early 2011’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 19

HP reports Q3 2010 earnings, posts $2.3 billion operating profit

Posted in: breaking news, BreakingNews, earnings, financial, financials, hewlett-packard, HP, palm, Today's Chili

And to think — that $2.3 billion figure might have been a few million higher if not for the absurd Golden Parachute that Mark Hurd will continue to float on for centuries to come. All jesting aside, HP published its Q3 2010 financials today, reporting a healthy $2.3b in operating profit (not to be confused with net income, which deducts those massive corporate taxes) and a five percent increase year-over-year. All told, third quarter revenue was listed at $30.7 billion (an 11.4 percent uptick from last year), with a “record” amount of services signings. Interestingly, a whopping 63 percent of total HP revenue came from outside of America, though we’re struggling to find any specific mentions of Hurd or Palm in the release (embedded after the break). We’ll be checking in on the press call shortly — we’ll let you know if anything crazy goes down.

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HP reports Q3 2010 earnings, posts $2.3 billion operating profit originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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