Articles Tagged “HP”
How Wireless Charging Works
by Shea Harris on May 22, 2012 17 Comments">17
If you’re like me, you find having to plug in your phone to charge it quite annoying. After all, we now live in a wireless world. What could be more cumbersome than having your phone plugged into the wall half the day? Wireless charging isn’t new, for example Palm (R.I.P) and HP made their Touchstone wireless charging system available for their webOS devices. It just hasn’t quite caught yet, but we’ll get into the reason for that later. The good news is that wireless charging looks like it may soon become more main stream, and one sign of this is …
Best Buy to Sell 32-gig HP TouchPads for US$150 on One Condition
by Conan Hughes on Oct 31, 2011 2 Comments">2
HP’s discontinued TouchPad tablet resurfaces once more from its grave as Best Buy is about to sell 32-GB versions for US$150. There’s a catch, though: you need to buy a new computer with it. Online purchases begin on November 1, whereas retail stores will offer the deal three days later on November 4. Anyone who buys an HP or Compaq computer–desktop, laptop, or all-in-one–will be eligible to buy the 32-GB HP TouchPad at the marked-down price. If you’re looking for the 16-GB model that costs US$99, you’re out of luck. Netbook purchases are also excluded from the promotion. Best Buy …
Touchdroid Breaks Ground, HP TouchPad with Android Now Responds to Ten-finger Input
by Elmer Montejo on Sep 07, 2011 7 Comments">7
We saw it coming. We just didn’t expect it to be this quick. The Touchdroid team has now made touchscreen input work on the HP TouchPad with Android running on the device. The Touchdroid team announced the news on Twitter just a few hours ago and even uploaded a video demonstrating the functional touchscreen. This, despite having gone through issues concerning misuse of funds and misrepresentation of the team. Getting the Android-running HP TouchPad’s screen to respond to finger input has been one of the basic hurdles that Touchdroid and other similar teams of developers have been working on. The …
Why You’d Want to Buy an HP TouchPad When the Next Batch Arrives
by Elmer Montejo on Sep 02, 2011 7 Comments">7
To me, it was the ridiculously low fire sale price and the potential for running Android that made the HP TouchPad gain back a heartbeat after its maker pronounced it dead. Within just hours after HP announced the lower prices for a product it no longer wishes to continue producing, retailers selling the device ran out of stock quickly. Even HP’s own online store and its company-owned outlets quickly ran out of units. Thousands of queuing customers didn’t get their hands on the HP TouchPad. They simply fell in line too late. And, right now, a lot of them are …
1 Million More HP TouchPad Units Coming Before November
by Carl Parker on Sep 01, 2011 23 Comments">23
HP has announced its plan to produce one more batch of HP TouchPad tablets, due to reach store shelves before October 31. Industry sources say HP might produce 500,000 to 1 million more units. HP recently decided to kill the HP TouchPad and clear out the remaining units in warehouses through an absurdly marked-down price sale. That did the trick, and stocks were cleared very quickly. The HP TouchPad suddenly earned a great demand–thanks to the drastic price cut. Analyst Shaw Wu told AppleInsider that HP’s decision is both “surprising and confusing.” Despite the high demand that the lowering of …
TouchDroid Project Putting Android on HP TouchPad to Go On Despite Hitting Bumps
by Carl Parker on Aug 30, 2011 1 Comments">1
The TouchDroid project, which was supposed to produce a port of Android that can replace the webOS operating system on the HP TouchPad, is currently going through a bumpy ride. Yahoo! News reports that a member of the team working on the TouchDroid project has allegedly misused funds donated to the project and has allegedly misrepresented the group. Thomas Sohmers, the project’s leader, told media that a member of his team used project funds to buy HP TouchPad units and resold the units for profit. The same team member also allegedly removed TouchDroid’s Twitter account and deleted files that are …
Should Samsung or Google Buy webOS?
by Lucian Armasu on Aug 29, 2011 4 Comments">4
According to a report from Digitimes, Samsung is considering buying webOS from HP. Some people think that this is because of Google buying Motorola, and while this may be true to some extent, Samsung have been weighing their options for a while now. They made the Bada OS as a back-up to Android, which is not doing too bad right now, out-selling WP7, but I’m sure they’d like it to be a lot more successful than it is. However, it’s very hard to beat Android’s momentum right now. Even Microsoft is having a hard time doing that with WP7. And …
Without Android, Would Manufacturers Be Like Apple or Palm, Right Now?
by Lucian Armasu on Aug 19, 2011 1 Comments">1
The mobile market experienced an earthquake when Apple launched in 2007. But it wasn’t felt right away. It was an earthquake that was felt gradually, and increasing in strength as time went by. It took a while for the other manufacturers to realize the implications of the touchscreen smartphone. The leaders in the industry, Nokia and RIM, and even Microsoft, did exactly what I would expect industry leaders to do when they get disrupted – they dismissed the iPhone. They kept dismissing it for years, until they finally realized that the demand for iPhones is not slowing down at all, …
HP’s Zeen C510 Android tablet
by James Tromans on Sep 09, 2010 0 Comments">0
HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion and all the good stuff that goes with that, and yet they still appear to have their eyes set firmly on an Android tablet. The HP Zeen C510 was apparently spotted in China with a fully customized version of the Android OS, that oddly allows no customization for the user (or so we’ve been led to believe). The new UI that HP have developed is called TouchSmart. Sure, it comes bundled with a few things like YouTube, Facebook and a Barnes & Noble recommendation widget, but the lack of control over the home-screen is …
HP killing off its Android tablet?
by Michelle Ruhfass on Jul 15, 2010 1 Comments">1
Reports are coming in that Hewlett-Packard has shelved its Android slate, which was to arrive sometime in Q4 of this year. Sources are now saying that the computer giant has delayed or possibly canned the Android tablet altogether. As to why, that part is unknown. We will let you know if we hear any more details. [via CNET]
Palm webOS UI head joins Google’s Android team
by Michael Oryl on May 27, 2010 0 Comments">0
In what can only be considered fantastic news for the Android platform, one of the main forces behind Palm’s lovely and easy to use webOS user interface, Matias Duarte, has joined fellow Danger Inc. alum Andy Rubin on Google’s Android development team. Duarte is now the User Experience Director for Android. For those of you that don’t keep tabs on what happens in the non-Android world, it’s worth noting that HP recently announced that it was buying Palm. [via Engadget]
Google’s CEO talks about new Android tablet to compete with iPad
by Michael Oryl on Apr 12, 2010 2 Comments">2
According to the New York Times, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at a party in Los Angeles talking about a new Google Android-powered tablet that is meant to compete with the iPad and similar devices that are set to hit the market soon. The Times quotes a few sources that wish to remain unnamed that have told it that Google has already been working with several publishers concerning book and magazine distribution on the device. The Times also mentions that HP is working on an Android device with a 6-inch display that it refers to as the “half-pint”. [via …
Video: HP Compaq Airlife 100 Android-powered netbook
by Michael Oryl on Feb 16, 2010 0 Comments">0
Here’s a look at the new HP Compaq Airlife 100, an Android 1.6 powered netbook computer with a 10.1 inch touchscreen display and all day battery life, thanks to its 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. This netbook was announced at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain and will be sold by Telefonica’s family of carriers, at least initially, but no ship date or pricing information has been given at this time. Video and additional photos are available after the break.
HP Compaq announce Airlife 100
by James Tromans on Feb 15, 2010 0 Comments">0
HP has announced a deal with Telefonica, who own O2 in the United Kingdom, to launch their brand new Airlife 100. This Smartbook will offer Android under the hood and is a hybrid between a smartphone and a netbook. Why? Well, perhaps to some it could just be a netbook, but given the fact is has 3G support built in and offers a 10.1-inch touchscreen all powered by Android, we’d beg to differ. It really does look as though Android might do well on a netbook-style device after all. At least HP’s Compaq division is hoping so. Aside from the …
eReader and ‘Friendlee’ applications coming soon to Android
by James Tromans on Jun 11, 2009 0 Comments">0
As the title would suggest, there are a couple of interesting applications that will make their way to Android in the coming months. First to receive a mention is eReader, a Barnes & Noble Company. eReader is effectively the world’s largest eBook store, even if they say so themselves. It offers a huge range of eBooks for your iPhone, Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone, Palm Treo and Centro or any Symbian mobile phone. Soon to make it onto that short list will be any Android device. We can expect to see eReader for Android popping up later on this …
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