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More $99 HP Tablets
- barredo 15y agoWill HP continue WebOs or will they switch to Android? If they're going with WebOS, i'll buy one.
- CaveTech 15y agoI believe HP already announced they remain committed to webOS and that it was still in development.
- rbanffy 15y agoThere is, of course, the elephant in the room: nobody currently builds WebOS devices. Which is too bad - I love my Palm Pre.
- j_col 15y agoIt's rumoured that Meg Whitman (HP CEO) will make an announcement about the future of webOS today: http://www.precentral.net/webos-all-hands-meeting-scheduled-tomorrow-morning-it-all-finally-comes-head http://www.precentral.net/webos-all-hands-meeting-scheduled-...
- bgarbiak 15y agoHas anyone managed to get the 32GB/$150 version from that Developer Device Program announced in November?
- chrislomax 15y agoI didn't get one and I had to dig around to see that they have all gone. They didn't even have the courtesy to email everyone to say they had sold out. If you go digging around the forums there is a short paragraph on it somewhere
- sequence7 15y agoYes, I actually got two and am liking them a lot more than I expected to.
- jdhzzz 15y agoI am reading this from my 32 GB model I got through the program. Still getting used to it. It is a good browser/mail reader. Tedious to type on. Biggest gripe is there is no undo (escape) key. I still have a code for a second one. I wonder if it would be honored.
- pktm 15y agoNope. Still foolishly hopeful.
- cubicle67 15y agonope. I'd really like to though I really like WebOS (never seen it first hand - can't get devices for love nor money in Aus), and I want to see it do well.
- rbanffy 15y agoGot no contact from them.
- shibboleth 15y agoI got mine in mid- to late- November. I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far; good games coupled with a good media streaming app make it a nice device for me.
- chrislomax 15y agoAnyone know if this will be available in Europe??
- sevenproxies 15y ago>and with HP still undecided on the fate of WebOS I’m not going to spend my money on a potential brick This sounds like a misnomer. Can a device that is primary focused around web-browsers be considered a brick?
- ovi256 15y agoIt's a bit more future proof than a device missing a browser. However as the browser is not updated, it will lack future technologies.
- freehunter 15y agoAnd a device that can have Android and Ubuntu/Debian installed on it. The CyanogenMod team is working on porting Ice Cream Sandwich. An openly hackable device lasts much longer than a planned-obsolescence, closed-platform model.
- firefoxman1 15y agoI know the current way to get Ubuntu on it is the chroot method, but why hasn't anyone hacked the WebOS Doctor to have a boot loader to dual boot Ubuntu? Or even have a system like a GDM login that gives the option to start X/Gnome instead of the native environment so you wouldn't need Ubuntu at all?
- freehunter 15y agoThe reason they use a chroot instead of a native boot is because WebOS has the drivers for the system already loaded. By booting Ubuntu inside of WebOS, they avoid not having compatible drivers for the system inside of Ubuntu. I don't know if all the drivers are open source or if today's announcement will change that.
- firefoxman1 15y agoAh yeah, I guessed that's why they only had a chroot until now, but what if you modified the system to load X11/Gnome at the end of boot instead of going into their own proprietary desktop environment?
- weagle2001 15y agoI gave a TouchPad to my mother-in-law for her birthday and she loved it. I think the TP is a great transition device because the interface is quite easy to use. Plus she was able to print to her HP printer, so she was happy. The TP didn't get a lot of love from reviewers, but it is a solid tablet.
- Ravenlock 15y agoCurious about the ability to put Android on one of these (in case WebOS ends up a dead end) - has anyone here tried it? How'd it go?