It’s no secret that the HP Veer 4G is coming to shelves here in the United States. However, it is, or should we say, it was a mystery as to whom it might be headed to. Well, Pocketnow has stumbled upon an image of a white variant of the HP Veer 4G and it’s going [...]
HP’s webOS tablet, the HP TouchPad, has shown up in a filing at the FCC which means that the device should be on track for its launch which will come at some point this summer. The TouchPad’s filing unfortunately doesn’t reveal much at all as most of the information within it will remain confidential for [...]
According to Nielsen more consumers are planning to purchase or want an Android phone over an iPhone or Blackberry. During the first three months of 2011 the company most noted for their TV ratings surveys asked mobile users which mobile OS they would rather use. Thirty-one percent desire an Android device while 30 percent long [...]
Invitations have been sent for the diminutive HP Veer webOS smartphone for May 2 in Anaheim, California. Little information is known about the Veer launch party, but the three-hour event will also host hands-on training, demos, and giveaways along with appetizers. According to PreCentral, when the blog registered for the event, they were told to [...]
2011 is shaking up to be yet another Year of the Tablet that isn’t really quite the Year of the Tablet as much as it is the Year of the Tablet promises for the future. But then for those who were paying attention that shouldn’t be a surprise. One of the big question marks might [...]
New screenshots of HP’s and Palm’s webOS 3.0 operating system hints at what’s to come in terms of the mobile OS’s user interface for the TouchPad tablet, which we had seen initially at the HP Think Beyond event in San Francisco, California. The interesting thing, aside from the tablet naming number convention between webOS 3.0 [...]
To date, HP’s and Palm’s efforts in the webOS smartphone space has yielded devices with keyboards, making this leaked image of a webOS smartphone sans keyboard a first for the form factor. The device reveals what appears to be a device of similar size to the Palm Pre 3 without the sliding keyboard. The display [...]
One thing is always certain. Before a major product launch we start seeing screen shots trickle out. I’m guessing this is just the beginning of that part of the game for HP’s WebOS. PreCentral has a series of shots that show off shots of Bing, Maps, the browser, the Device Menu and a few others. [...]
In an attempt to bolster sales, HP has dropped the price of the Palm Pre 2 to free of charge at its HP Wireless Store. Last week, Verizon dropped the price of the Pre 2 down to free only to bring it back up to the usual price tag of $150. HP’s deal, like Verizon’s, [...]
HP’s John Rubenstein recently appeared on the Engadget Show and clarified a bit about how webOS will run on all those non-tablet HP computers. Apparently it is going to run in a window on Microsoft Windows. I haven’t watched the video yet, but according to mobiputing, this won’t be a dual boot solution nor will [...]
Another busy week has wrapped up and we’ve boiled down the essential news, reviews and how tos to the best of the week so that you know what’s going on in the world of notebook, netbooks, tablets and smart phones. Notebook News For the Week of March 18th: This week we saw a collection of [...]
In addition to HTC bringing a 10-inch slate and the HP webOS TouchPad pricing leak, it looks like a slew of tablets will be getting released this summer for under $500 from Acer and Toshiba, according to a leaked document obtained by PreCentral. In April, Acer will release a 7-inch Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet with [...]
On Thursday, a rumor popped up claiming that HP was preparing to sell the company’s notebook and PC division, with the likely buyer being Samsung, a company that has been trying to break into the U.S. notebook market in a bigger way. The initial report came from the Taiwan Commercial Times, but has since been [...]
If you’re looking to keep up on Notebook news, then here’s your mid-day recap of notebook, netbook and software news from Notebooks.com. We have a collection of new netbooks arriving on the market soon with the latest Intel and AMD Fusion processors. First off we are expecting at least five new Intel Atom N570 dual [...]
HP”s new CEO Leo Apotheker is making some big and bold statements as he works to take control of HP’s future. Saying that HP has “lost its soul,” Apotheker says that come 2012 HP will include WebOS on every HP PC. He’s not looking at it as a replacement for Windows, but rather something that [...]
Despite its refined elegance, the iOS platform–used by the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch-has a jarring notifications system with its pop-up notification box that demands your attention no matter what app you’re in. Developers who didn’t want to have their iOS experiences interrupted with Apple’s notification scheme have created a mock up to show a [...]
Throwing folks in a tizzy, HP CTO Phil McKinney recently showed off a gadget called a “MetaWatch” (previously misquoted as “Metal Watch”) as an example of the direction mobile computing was headed. Quickly, McKinney took to his blog to clear up the concept of the MetaWatch and give credit to Fossil for putting it together.
Amazon.com has posted a product page for the HP TouchPad. The page is pretty sparse at the moment, just listing specs and asking if you’d like to receive alerts when the device is actually for sale. There’s no HP TouchPad pricing or availability information at Amazon.com yet and I don’t think this indicates that the [...]
As you may recall, back in August, HP CTO Phil McKinney was caught on camera playing with a trio of unnamed, unseen gadgets. Two have turned out to be the HP Touchpad and a phone that, based on size, is probably the HP Pre3. The third was an unnamed watch-like device, which turns out to [...]
I just finished watching the streaming version of Apple’s iPad 2 announcement. Too bad they didn’t stream the actual thing live. But then perhaps that fits with the expectation mindset that says this was to be an incremental upgrade. Well if the iPad 2 is an incremental upgrade it is one that basically trumped any [...]
The HP TouchPad was being shown off at the GDC 2011 in San Francisco just next door to the big Apple iPAd 2 event. The demo was of a fighter game called the Armageddon Squadron II. The TouchPad gaming experience looks smooth enough, but the cool feature comes at the video. The TouchPad can be synched with [...]
Dr. Dre is saved by doctors using the HP Pre3, HP Touchpad and an HP Envy Beats Edition notebook in his latest music video, which also stars rapper Eminem. This is the latest example of how HP’s injecting itself in popular culture. While Apple may be the most recognizable tech brand in popular TV shows and [...]
Holy cow. I would have thought that after we’d seen HP’s announcement of the PalmPad and folks starting reviewing the Motorola Xoom we’d have a real Tablet war on our hands. Well, we kinda do and we kinda don’t. But then if you read this post you probably know I didn’t expect that Tablet War [...]
This week was one of the busiest we’ve seen in a while with 25 new notebooks or refreshed notebooks being announced this week from Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Sony. The new notebooks ran the gamut from consumer devices to corporate work stations and range from $579 to $2,199 for the base models. There’s even [...]
Any hopes that the HP Slate 500 might swing back to being a consumer gadget after being rebranded as an enterprise device got a little slimmer this week as HP announced a couple of health care applications for the tablet, taking it back to a key vertical market of the Tablet PC.
HP’s refreshed its entire Elitebook and Probook lineup with faster processors and fresh new looks. But my favorite feature on the new notebooks will probably be overlooked by most notebook users. All of the new Elitebooks and Probooks now come with an easy access panel, which means you can replace memory without twisting a single [...]
So apparently HP tried to use the Grammy awards as the launch point for their new “Everybody On” campaign. It included a commercial that is being widely reviled and the HP TouchPad shown in use before commercial breaks. Effective? Survey says “no”.
Look up the word “loser” on the Internet this week and you might hear the Intel chime in the background. Or at least that’s the impression I got after reading reaction to this week’s big tech announcements.
This was a big week in tech with several new products launching from big names like Dell and HP including notebooks, tablets and phones. We also saw the launch of the Verizon iPhone, which didn’t get a large turnout of buyers waiting in line, but it did hit sales records for Verizon. Hot News in [...]
It looks like some of the cooler features of webOS 2.0 won’t be making it to Palm’s older hardware as the Palm Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi, and Pixi Plus will not be getting its webOS operating system upgraded to version 2.0. According to Engadget, which had an interview with HP’s Jon Rubinstein, HP will try [...]
HP’s launching a new global marketing campaign that highlights passionate people and how they use technology. Famous musicians, race car drivers and other successful people will talk about their experiences in TV ads and on an online hub. Mobility and entertainment will be big parts of the campaign, which will presumably include the company’s newly introduced WebOS [...]
If you have a couple of hours to kill and didn’t get enough of all of yesterday’s WebOS device news, feel free to watch the below video. Otherwise, you can check out our coverage from the event, including hands on video of the HP TouchPad, HP Veer and HP Pre 3. As we reported yesterday, [...]
About 13 years ago I got my first Palm Pilot and it was magical. It could recognize my shorthand thanks to Graffiti, keep my contacts organized and schedule appointments. There was a seemingly endless supply of third party apps that could do things like turn my Palm Pilot into a universal remote control. I could beam [...]
Along with the webOS TouchPad tablet announced today, HP had also announced two smartphones to extend its webOS family. The company announced the HP Veer, a smartphone that is about the size of a credit card while still accommodating a full-size portrait-oriented sliding keyboard in the style of the Palm Pre, and the HP Pre [...]
Earlier today HP had unveiled its webOS tablet, called the TouchPad, along with a few webOS-powered smartphone. The lineup announced today, according to HP, marks the beginning of the next-generation of webOS devices. The company is promising that the mobile operating system will make its way over to Internet-connected printers along with desktop and notebook [...]
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