HP gunning for mobile market with two new phablets

HP's long hinted that it may get back into the mobile market post-webOS. Now that they've sold off Palm's mobile operating system to LG, HP is betting on Android to power their Slate 6 and  Slate 7 tablets which feature voice calling. Looks like HP is shooting straight for the supersized smartphone market where it can make a dent. The new Jelly Bean powered slates are coming to India first but we'll hopefully see them come to North America sometime soon.

Source: Re/code

CES 2014: First look at LG's webOS-powered SmartTV

Kudos to LG for taking the discarded carcass of the once-promising webOS platform and shaping it into something new and exciting with their webOS-powered SmartTV.  CES and webOS have a strange connection, the OS was introduced by Palm, together with the first Pre smartphone at CES 2009. Years later, webOS makes a stunning comeback as the most innovative take on SmartTV. It's good to see that webOS has a lot more to offer even if it isn't in a mobile device.

LG reportedly launching webOS-powered smart TV at CES

After acquiring the defunct operating system from HP last February, LG looks to use the webOS platform for a new smart television. The Verge reports that the webOS-powered TV will make its debut at CES in January and will feature a Cards interface, similar to Apple, Microsoft, and Google mobile user interfaces.

The TV is also rumoured to be powered by a 2.2GHz dual-core processor, 1.5GB RAM, and apps based on the webOS’ Enyo framework.

HP TouchPad can now run Android OS...sort of

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

What's more awesome than $99 dual-core webOS tablets? Kick ass hackers who put in hours of work to enable Android on the now discontinued HP TouchPad. Team Touchdroid has managed to install Android 2.3 (yes, it is the smartphone version but you have to start somewhere) with multi-touch now enabled. These lads are hard at work to turn the abandoned tablet into something useful and fun to use.

I'd like to see if someone can figure out how to dual-boot Android and webOS on that sucker...oh, wait Team Touchdroid already did!  Hit up Team-Touchdroid to track their progress, encourage their efforts or donate your TouchPads and $$$ for the common good.

Update on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 12:25AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Seems like Cyanogenmod deserves credit as well for getting things started