March 08, 2012

Should HP make a "Nexus" hero device for Open webOS?

An interesting question was posed this morning in our forums by aia832003: should HP make a "Nexus" device? For those not familiar, Google has over the past few years commissioned a series of "Nexus" phones for Android, phones that are the launch device for a new version of...
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Open webOS branding design competition update: a super sweet prize awaits!

Two days ago we posted what we thought would be a fun exercise: getting the webOS Nation community involved in working up fresh branding for Open webOS . At the time we were doing it just because, with no expectations that HP would do anything with what was worked up, much less that they...
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Roku seeks funding for international expansion

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. start-up Roku is gearing up for a major funding round as it seeks to export to other countries the success of its mini-set-top boxes that stream Internet video to televisions, founder and Chief Executive Anthony Wood told Reuters on Wednesday. Roku, which competes with Apple...
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The webOS Wish List: App Catalog sliding panels

I'll be honest, this is one of those wish list items of something minor that's always bugged me. I'm talking about the App Catalog, which if anything should be the epitome of webOS apps. So what does it do? It completely ignores the most characteristic of webOS TouchPad app...
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Apple, you win: I want an iPad

When Apple introduced the iPad, it came out of left field, much like the iPhone and the iPod before it. Almost nobody believed it would be as successful as it has been and I doubt anyone predicted it would shake up and transform the PC industry in less than two years. But here we are. We’re two...
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App Review: Notes HD

The built-in Memos app for webOS isn't all that great . We all know it. With a big 9.7-inch screen like that on the TouchPad, its even more unforgivable how basic it is and how little its been updated. If there's one good thing about the pitifulness of the TouchPad Memos app, it's...
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Communicate with a contact from an email message

When you get an email from someone in your contact list, did you know that you can easily call, text, look up their address, or get access to any of the data from their contact record with just a single tap on the screen? From an email message on either webOS phones or the TouchPad, tap on the...
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March 07, 2012

There's some iPad or something being announced today ...

So everybody's got their panties all in a bunch over some new iPad or something that's being announced today. You heard it here first, folks: It'll be better than the last one. It'll be more magical than the last one. Magical-er. Anyhoo. Our pals at iMore are rocking the...
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Deleted a default TouchPad app? Restore it with Internalz Pro

Sometimes, for reasons we've yet to determine, the built-in first-party apps can disappear off an HP TouchPad. It's rare, but it happens, and for the average user it's annoying, frustrating, and confusing to have a basic app like the App Catalog or Calendar just up and disappear....
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March 06, 2012

Open sourcing Open webOS branding

You know what's fun about open source ? Anybody can contribute. While that generally has to do with code-level stuff, there's still plenty of user-facing design work that has to be done with open source software projects - Open webOS included. We've already seen the snazzy logo...
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