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HP’s keyboard-less webOS phone and Verizon Pre 3 leaked?

admin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:13:00 +0000

Our good friends over at PreCentral have just received a couple of juicy scoops, even for this time of the day. According to their proven tipster, what we’re looking at here is an upcoming webOS phone sans keyboard — a first for Rubinstein’s crew, as many of you might already know. While there’s not much detail to go with this pic, it appears that this here slate’s just slightly bigger than the Pre 3, and that the little spot above the screen could be either a front-facing camera or merely a proximity sensor

HP Veer, first hands-on! (updated with video!)

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:02:00 +0000

How does the HP Veer look up close? Cute as a button, and small — these pictures don’t do it justice at all. We just got our hands on the pint-sized webOS 2.2 smartphone, and snapped a stack of pictures for your viewing pleasure

Live from HP / Palm’s ‘Think Beyond’ webOS event!

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:32:00 +0000

We’re inside and things are getting underway — the event officially starts at the times below. Read along after the break to see what’s happening right now! 07:00AM – Hawaii 10:00AM – Pacific 11:00AM – Mountain 12:00PM – Central 01:00PM – Eastern 06:00PM – London 07:00PM – Paris 09:00PM – Moscow 11:30PM – Mumbai 03:00AM – Tokyo (February 10th) 05:00AM – Sydney (February 10th) Continue reading Live from HP / Palm’s ‘Think Beyond’ webOS event! Live from HP / Palm’s ‘Think Beyond’ webOS event! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:32:00 EST.

Exclusive interview: Google’s Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android

admin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:03:00 +0000

We’re not going to lie — we’re pretty excited to bring this to you guys. Here at CES 2011 we had a chance to sit down with Matias Duarte , the man behind webOS (as well as the Sidekick and Helio UIs), who’s now heading up Google’s user experience for Android. Matias is currently driving the interface and design for Android 3.0 (AKA Honeycomb ), and it’s clear that he’s bringing his big, bold ideas to the Android platform.

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Exclusive interview: Google’s Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android

Palm webOS ‘Enyo’ framework paves the way for tablets and larger phones (video)

admin — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:01:00 +0000

Don’t expect HP’s webOS 2.0 to be tied to an HVGA screen for long — come “early 2011,” the company will introduce a number of “really interesting new form factors,” including tablets and phones . That was the message driven home at Palm’s Developer Day this year, according to PreCentral ‘s Dieter Bohn, and the software that’s going to make that shift possible is a little something called Enyo

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Palm webOS ‘Enyo’ framework paves the way for tablets and larger phones (video)

Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0 showcased in new commercial

admin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:08:00 +0000

It’s hard to tell if the ad embedded after the break is purely official, but it definitely reeks of HP. In a good way, that is.

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Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0 showcased in new commercial

Palm Pixi shows off 3D gaming chops with webOS 1.4.5 release (video)

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:53:00 +0000

What with all the “battery optimization” excitement , we nearly forgot that Sprint’s new webOS 1.4.5 update doesn’t just empower the Pre; it also finally brings PDK’d OpenGL and SDL support to the Palm Pixi. On the off chance you don’t speak developer lingo, that’s short for 3D apps and games, and as it turns out the pint-sized Pixi doesn’t play the latter half-badly

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Palm Pixi shows off 3D gaming chops with webOS 1.4.5 release (video)

Screen Grabs: Pretty Little Liars is TV’s newest home to egregious product placement (video)

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:25:00 +0000

Scene: Impossibly mature high school “girls” mingling in front of a locker. Action! Bitter Barbie: “What are you doing

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Screen Grabs: Pretty Little Liars is TV’s newest home to egregious product placement (video)

HP partners with video conferencing firm Vidyo, drops hints at mobile applications

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:19:00 +0000

The ink’s barely dry on HP’s acquisition of some assets from Phoenix , but that’s not the company’s only recent deal — it also announced a partnership with video conferencing firm Vidyo last week. That wouldn’t necessarily be all that notable in and of itself, but HP seems to be going out of its way to talk up the potential mobile implications of the deal, with HP’s Halo marketing manager Darren Podrabsky offering the following tidbit to PreCentral : We’ve talked about the desktop. Think mobile.

EVO 4G receives a Palm Pre inductive charging transplant (video)

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:40:00 +0000

Oh yes, an HTC EVO has been modded with the inductive charging coil ripped from the still beating heart of a Palm Pre. The 30 minute soldering project does have the side effect of rendering compass apps useless while creating a slight bulge in the battery cover

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EVO 4G receives a Palm Pre inductive charging transplant (video)

webOS booted up on a PC, just for kicks

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:20:00 +0000

It’s always been possible to run webOS on a PC using the emulator built into Palm’s SDK, but it turns out that the OS image used for the emulator can actually be installed on an IDE hard drive and booted from — which is exactly what one enterprising member of the PreCentral forums did with his Dell C600 laptop.

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webOS booted up on a PC, just for kicks

Nokia N900 overclocked to 1GHz in bid to outrun obsolescence (video)

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:22:00 +0000

Given all the Cortex A8 processor clock tweaking going on we admit to being just a little surprised to be reading the first overclocking reports on the eminently hackable N900 only now.

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Kyocera Zio M6000 hands-on: you get what pay for

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:40:00 +0000

It’s totally unfair to Kyocera that we played with its new Zio M6000 mid-tier Android smartphone mere hours after our first look at the HTC EVO 4G , but while we were excited to see a cheaper phone with an 800 x 480 screen, the end result is pretty disappointing. The device crams that resolution into a 3.5-inch screen, which wouldn’t be so bad if the capacitive touchscreen element wasn’t so low-end.

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Kyocera Zio M6000 hands-on: you get what pay for

Verizon vs. AT&T: Pre Plus edition

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:55:00 +0000

Sure, Verizon and AT&T shout at each other across our TV airwaves all the time, but how often do we get to see two exactly same phones running on both carriers?

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Palm’s webOS 1.4 update now available for Sprint, O2 and Movistar phones

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:43:00 +0000

No leaks or release date rumors this time, a mere 39mb download is all that separates your Sprint, O2 or Movistar connected Pre from video recording, Flash , enhanced message notifications and much-desired performance and battery life improvements. Verizon, Bell and Telcel customers are unfortunately still waiting for their day in the sun, only specified by the official Palm blog as “soon.” Check out Palm’s trailer for the new features and the full webOS 1.4 changelog after the break, after queueing up the download of course.

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Palm’s webOS 1.4 update now available for Sprint, O2 and Movistar phones