…HP has said that the WebOS based tablet will be coming to Australia “later this year”. Huzzah! [Giz]
HP has finally announced when the HP TouchPad, the awesome webOS tablet, will be available: July 1. It’s going to be Wi-Fi only version and will run for $US500 for 16GB and $US600 for 32GB. Pre-orders start June 19th.
HP CEO Leo Apotheker has some crazy interesting things to say about the best neglected platform in smartphones: webOS. Like that he’s open to licensing webOS to other phonemakers – HTC, for instance.
Holy shit this phone is adorable. I feel like I’m bear-hugging it with my hand every time I hold it.
HP’s CEO has promised that webOS for PCs is coming – to every PC they ship from 2012. Saying that “HP has lost its soul,” CEO Leo Apotheker hopes that bundling webOS with Windows will entice more customers into buying HP products. Does that sound like something you’d buy? [BusinessWeek via SlashGear]
If you want to listen to audio on headphones or transfer data via USB on the HP Veer, you’re gonna need a magnetic dongle for that. PreCentral says the attachment is bulky and its magnet isn’t very strong. Meh. [PreCentral]
According to BGR, HP’s impressive-looking (but sluggish) webOS TouchPad tablet could be on sale this June for $US700.
HP just went and hired Richard Kerris to serve as their new VP of worldwide developer relations for WebOS. In addition to working at LucasArts as their CTO, Kerris worked on Apple’s worldwide developer relations team in the first half of the 2000s, where he prodded developers to start cranking out apps for OS X. Presumably, he’ll be doing the same for WebOS, a platform in desperate need of apps. [MobileCrunch]
