Monthly Archives: August 2010

By: , 8/29/2010 3:32 pm | 21 comments

Let’s have a little bit of fun, shall we? A lot of the webOS community is chomping at the bit to learn about new hardware, including all of us at webOSroundup. We want some specs, some pictures, anything to whet …

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By: , 8/28/2010 1:32 pm | 7 comments
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As a father of three young boys, I’m always on the lookout for webOS apps that will entertain little kids. There are a few games that my sons love to play, but I’m always interested in finding an app that …

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By: , 8/27/2010 3:02 pm | 0 comments

Well this is interesting. HP is bundling webOS phones with laptops? Yep… all you have to do is buy their performance ProBook notebook, and you get a Palm Pixi (pictured above) or the Pre Plus, free of charge. This move …

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By: , 8/27/2010 2:43 pm | 0 comments
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How many times did you beg your parents to get you a drum set when you were a kid? I’ve lost count. My parents wouldn’t let me get drums, but they did let me have a trumpet instead (which in …

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By: , 8/27/2010 11:02 am | 0 comments

Attention Hackathon Developers and Testers: we need your information so that you, your company, or your app logo can be featured on the official Hackathon 2010 commemorative poster. As we mentioned in an earlier post, this will be a 7″ x 11 …

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By: , 8/26/2010 3:15 pm | 8 comments

Update:  HP wins! After a back-and-forth, HP has paid more than double for 3PAR than what they paid for Palm! Hey, we just report this stuff. We can’t make explain everything, you know!… Someone is gonna make quite the payday by …

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By: , 8/26/2010 3:10 pm | 16 comments
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So this week the biggest game on the mobile planet made its way to little ole webOS (before Android, to boot!). With all the hype surrounding it you would think that the little birds were the C40. Alas… they aren’t …

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By: , 8/26/2010 2:16 pm | 8 comments

Can’t decide whether to buy a Palm Pre or an iPhone? How about both in one device. Check out this obvious rip-off on the Palm Pre from China(?). The hardware design is almost exactly like the Pre, but it’s rocking …

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By: , 8/26/2010 1:56 pm | 0 comments
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Date: #4 (Wednesday, August 25th) Synopsis: This episode will focus on app analytics and what to do with them. Special Note: We call this episode #5 in the broadcast. There are actually reasons behind this, but we are really just …

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By: , 8/26/2010 6:03 am | 20 comments

webOS Internals has done it again. We’ve all seen the great things that they have done with some of the more experimental overclocking kernels. All of the alpha testing in those kernels has brought some nice features to the more …

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By: , 8/25/2010 10:49 am | 0 comments
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The Palm App Catalog hasn’t been the greatest when it comes to finding exactly what you’re looking for, nor has it been very good at filtering out the fuzz of “spam apps” as we like to call them. Until recently, …

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By: , 8/25/2010 9:21 am | 4 comments
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Of all the many uses for your Palm Pre or Pixi smartphone did you ever think of using it as a live picture frame? Slide RSS by developer Appsotutely ($2.99) puts an interesting spin on creating random slideshows for you …

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