I reactivated my Palm Pre, because I figured, “Hey, HP is releasing Open webOS next month, so I can have my favorite mobile operating system back”. Except no, I cannot. HP has announced that Open webOS won’t, in fact, run on any existing devices. If you’re rocking any version of the Pre, Pixi, or Veer, […]
I’m a diehard webOS user. My TouchPad is my daily workhorse, and I love the thing. Until a few weeks ago, I was still using my Palm Pre+ (hacked to run on Sprint). However, a recent contract change added Sprint’s $10 data access fee. As much as I love my Pre, I am not not […]
I have a confession to make: I didn’t cover HP’s highly disappointing earnings statement because I thought you guys might be sick of hearing me go on about them. Considering the recent mismanagement and musical CEO games being played there, it’s not too much of a surprise that earnings are lower than usual but a […]
Back in the heady yesterdays of the HP TouchPad firesale, people claimed they’d purchased units that were running a device-specific build of Google’s Android operating system. HP repeatedly denied such an OS existed. Until yesterday. Not only has HP fessed up, but they’ve also released the source code. In fact, they handed it directly to […]
When HP announced that they’d make webOS open source, they neglected details of any kind. Instead, we got the usual “in the coming months” vagueness, the sort of thing that helped bring webOS to the strong market presence it has now. Color me surprised, because today HP released a detailed road map for their […]
I really don’t want to become That Guy — the kind of guy who rails on and on about the superiority of his niche or failed tech (see: Betamax, DiVX disks, Newton PDAs, etc). But it’s hard to keep from doing that after reading the article titled “In Flop of H.P. TouchPad, an Object Lesson […]
When I read the finally-announced fate of webOS, I got so excited that my congenital heart condition flared up. It’s not often that I read something so exciting that I need to sit down and breath deep. Many at the the announcement were expecting a total shelving, others a sale or a license. What few […]
We’ve seen some impressive price drops on tablets this year. I’m not just talking about the explosive launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, $300 cheaper than the industry-leading iPad. Some of the biggest splashes have been made by tablets that foolishly set their retail prices in iPad territory, when they didn’t have the hardware, software, or […]
Here’s a pleasant surprise for us webOS users! A recent NPD study has revealed that while Apple’s iPad may be number one, the rapidly shelved HP TouchPad is number two. Techcitement knew the firesale was going to boost those numbers and that they were number two on Amazon for a while. But considering Samsung has […]
Intel’s new Ultrabook class initiative is heating up. If the last Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was all about tablets, expect this one to be all about Ultrabooks. We at Techcitement had a chance to mess around with several the other day and were insanely impressed. One of the more impressive models is the HP Folio […]
