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New Kickstarter project aims to finish OpenMobile ACL, run Android apps in webOS on HP TouchPad

Android The HP TouchPad is no stranger to Android, getting a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich as well as its own CyanogenMod builds. The webOS tablet was also once the target of a project called the "Application Compatibility Layer" (ACL) from a...

4 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 3

HP WindsorNot full-touch webOS smartphone shown off in new leak

News Remember the HP WindsorNot? This full-touch webOS smartphone appeared in a promotional video that began circulating around the web in mid-2012, but not long after it did, the company behind the clip asked that all images and video be...

5 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 3

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LG, give me a webOS phone!

Mwc 2013 Early Monday morning, LG used the popular event Mobile World Congress, currently taking place in Barcelona, Spain, to announce that they have successfully purchased webOS from HP. As it stands right now, the details are pretty light...

Feb 25th by Evan Selleck 28 12 Reactions

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LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it on smart TVs [UPDATED]

Mwc 2013 It looks like webOS is making yet another big move. After spending some time at HP in recent years, LG says that it's purchased webOS from HP and that it plans to use the platform on its smart TVs. Unfortunately for fans of webOS on...

Feb 25th by Alex Wagner 19 13 Reactions

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Which will take center stage this year: Open source or traditional platforming?

Android Over the past couple of months I’ve touched base on just about all of the up-and-coming open source mobile platforms. I’m particularly interested in Ubuntu, but Firefox OS, Tizen, and Sailfish don’t look too shabby either. And we can’t...

Feb 21st by Anna Scantlin 21 17 Reactions

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HP needs to stay focused on Windows 8

Lifestyle It’s been a little while since we’ve heard any big news from our friends over at HP. However, recent news has surfaced that HP actually plans to start creating tablets that run on Android, and may even create smartphones in the future...

Feb 13th by Anna Scantlin 28 22 Reactions

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Then and now: The perfect smartphone

Android For any of you who have been reading along since the beginning of my time here at PhoneDog, you know my preferences have changed … a lot. I have gone from serious BlackBerry fanboy to an every-OS man. I went from thinking BlackBerry would...

Feb 8th by Taylor Martin 34

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Do you have to have the latest software on your phone?

Android For the longest time, I would never settle for anything but the latest and greatest on all mobile fronts. I had to have both the latest hardware and software in any scenario. I never waited for official software updates, and the minute new...

Jan 30th by Taylor Martin 81 60 Reactions

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Do you still hack your phones?

Android When I bought my first Android smartphone, the last thing on my mind was breaking out my laptop and flashing the latest mod. I wasn't even sure what "rooting" was, considering it was the second Android smartphone to grace the U.S. market....

Jan 28th by Taylor Martin 43

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Would you pick up a new webOS device versus the competition?

Webos We’ve come a long way since 2009. But it was in 2009 that I fell in love with a phone called the Pre, and so 2009 is a year that I’ll remember fondly for a long time. I had a friend add a line for me through Sprint, and I used the original...

Jan 7th by Evan Selleck 56 30 Reactions

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Is there room for all the up-and-coming mobile operating systems?

Android In the mobile space, most everything major is divided between two primary platforms we're all too familiar with: Apple's iOS or Android from the search giant Google. Chances are, if any new mobile application is released, it hits iOS first...

Jan 4th by Taylor Martin 17

Open webOS now up and running on the Nexus 7

News First it was the Samsung Galaxy Nexus that played host to Open webOS, and now it looks like another Nexus device has been tweaked to run the open source version of HP's mobile operating system. WebOS Ports team member Simon Busch, also...

from 2012 by Alex Wagner 2

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How long will it be until another mobile platform will overtake Android?

Android Android is well on its way to rule the world. Google's open source mobile platform is finding itself in all sorts of consumer electronics, from the typical smartphones and tablets to home appliances such as washer and dryer pairs or...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 24

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Why can't we be friends?

Android Since the beginning of smartphone time there have been avid fans having shouting matches on all sides of the fence over which operating system was better. Sometimes my womanly feelings get the better of me and as argumentative as I love to...

from 2012 by Anna Scantlin 199 96 Reactions

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My Galaxy Nexus will soon be the Pre 4 that never was

Webos The first time I ever used webOS was with version 1.0, the original Palm Pre. I worked as a wireless sales consultant at the time and worked the day of the the Pre launch. So I picked one up before I left work and quickly fell in love … at...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 12

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Which current device would you run Open webOS on?

Webos You absolutely have to love when a company keeps a promise, or even just a plan in general. Sure, HP's not in the best position to those in the mobile industry who liked webOS, but at least the mobile platform isn't completely dead....

from 2012 by Evan Selleck 15

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Open webOS 1.0 officially released [UPDATED]

News When HP officially laid out its schedule for Open webOS back in late January, the company said that it expected to release Open webOS 1.0 sometime in September. Today the company met that goal, as it has officially released version 1.0 of...

from 2012 by Alex Wagner 7

Open webOS beta made available for download

News Big news for webOS fans today, as the beta version of Open webOS has been released. The news was announced on The Open webOS Project blog, with the team explaining that the beta version contains 54 webOS components and over 450,000 lines...

from 2012 by Alex Wagner 5

Open webOS won't feature support for current webOS products

News Open webOS is due to see a full 1.0 release in September, and so far the work on the project has been progressing, like with the recent release of the Enyo 2 application framework. Today the Open webOS Project took another step toward...

from 2012 by Alex Wagner 7

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What's your favorite mobile OS? (Poll)

Android We've asked it before, but as the seasons change, so do preferences in mobile operating systems. What's your favorite mobile OS right now? Personally, I tend to switch back and forth between Android and iOS depending...

from 2012 by Aaron Baker 305 225 Reactions

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"Have you lost all hope that we'll ever see a new webOS-based smartphone released?"

Humza Ahmed WebOS TVs? I'd give it a month before ones spotted running Android.

Mark Belkowski webos is done, nothing else to talk about.

Matt Jackson Android "wasn't that good" when it first came out; neither was ios. The tragedy that is webos is in what it could have been. Poor hardware support brought it down before webos had the opportunity to fully flourish. With enough time it could have easily competed against Apple and Google.

Devin Tolliver @Jesse Ling. Even though webOS wasnt "that good", people saw its potential and what it could become. I'd go as far to say that it would be competing with Android and iOS if it had better hardware.