HP has announced its next generation WebOS 2 and the Pre 2 device. The new device will come with a 1Ghz CPU, the screen will remain the HVGA (320×480).  The WebOS 2 has lots of improvements.  You can see the full details at link here. Engadget has a pre-production unit from them and has a review: “Despite some issues, webOS 2.0 is probably neck and neck with iOS4 when it comes to polish and ease [...]

People found the product code P102 code in recent Palm’s SDK and according to a tipster for precentral, a product with code name Mansion will be coming soon.  Could this be P102? The new device from Palm is said to be with WVGA resolution with is 800×480.  It it will come without a keyboard and we will have to use virtual keyboard.  And it should be running WebOS 2.0. Well, we shall see what will [...]

While we are still wondering how WebOS’s development will be moving forward after HP put in their money, Palm has just released the beta version of the WebOS SDK 2.0 to limited developers. From the features made available to the developers, we can see some new features of the upcoming WebOS 2.0.  There are things like Stack, an improved Card feature for the multitasking capability of WebOS, which stacks similar card together.  Palm also opens [...]

Martias Duarte, who is the master mind of the WebOS UI, has left Palm to join Google’s Android team. He is now the User Experience Director for Android. And he is no stranger to the Android leadership because he worked on the Sidekick with Andy Rubin when they were both still with Danger. So are we going to see a major overhaul for Android user interface?  Some of you may still like the stocked Android [...]

Surprise! Surprise!  HP buys Palm.  And it costs HP 1.2 billions USD. We knew Palm was looking for people to buy them but HP was never in the picture.  However, this is a deal now and HP is looking to complete the deal by 31st July. “Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobility strategy and create a unique HP experience spanning multiple mobile connected devices,” said Todd Bradley, executive vice [...]

The web based development platform – Project Ares – from Palm for WebOS application development is out of beta now.  It is labelled as 1.0 at the moment. Besides ironing out bugs and issues, Palm event adds more functionalities to it: ‘Components, which are widgets that provide functionality, but without any user interface. The palette now contains the service calls, sensors, etc that are in the webOS SDK’. If you are a developer wanting to writing [...]

Yes, it has been reported that Palm will release the version 1.4 of WebOS to the Pre and Pixi owners by today.  And we have a long list of have been fixed and addedd: Fixes Time Zone bug Fix Network time sync bug fix to reflect accuratenetwork time BT car-kit transition to device corrected No EV-Icon bug fixed (random) Random browser formatting bug fixed Fixed bug that incorrectly displayed Sprint when actually was Digital Roaming [...]

In order to attract more quality apps to its App Catalog, Palm has started a Hot Apps program. Running from February 1, 2010 to May 31, 2010, Hot Apps will award cash prizes to the developers with the most webOS app downloads during that period. And here are the prizes: #1 most downloaded free app: $100,000 #1 highest revenue paid app: $100,000 #2 – #21 most downloaded paid apps: $10,000 each #2 – #21 most [...]

Palm seems to be working hard to add more features to its WebOS.  And the latest is the 3D hardware accelarated gaming.  The webosinternal channel on Youtube is showing a demo of Doom running on Palm Pre and it has reached a pretty impressive stage.  It is working at high speed and the graphic is smooth.  When Palm finishes the development of the 3D API for WebOS, we will see full 3D games start to [...]

Interested in the latest web based development tool for WebOS from Palm?  Here is a video of it.  If you are interested in writing applications for WebOS platform, this might be interesting to you.  It is demoed by an experienced Ares developer and it shows quite a number of interesting aspects of Ares, like drag-and-drop, integration with Flickr, etc. Enjoy!!