Author Archives: David Baxter

About David Baxter

David is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of webOSroundup. When not toiling away at WOR he is usually with his family, at church, building a website of some kind or another, or playing a video game. @davidbbaxter
By: , 1/13/2012 6:43 pm | 22 comments
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During CES we were asked to check out something called Open Mobile. This little company was claiming that it could run all 300,000 apps on a webOS device.

Is it real? What does it do? Can you buy it?

While we …

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By: , 1/5/2012 9:21 am | 54 comments
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Just about a month ago now Meg Whitman announced to the world that webOS was going to follow in Android’s footsteps and go open source. Much of the tech world rejoiced…us included, but what does that mean for the …

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By: , 12/12/2011 8:42 am | 9 comments
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A few weeks ago we held a little contest. The top 50 webOS haiku’s would get their very own promo code to Picel’s new document editing suite  Smart Office.

As usual you guys came through in a big way. So many in …

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By: , 12/2/2011 10:43 pm | 31 comments
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During an internal meeting at HP today CEO Meg Whitman gave a little speech about something held near and dear.

webOSFrance got a rough transcript from someone at the meeting.

This is a tough, tough decision for HP. webOS is a terrific …

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By: , 11/8/2011 8:05 pm | 51 comments
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HP’s CEO Meg Whitman just announced that she isn’t quite sure what the best strategy for webOS is and really wants some more time to think it over.

 ”It’s really important to me to make the right decision, not the …

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By: , 10/29/2011 1:07 am | 36 comments
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Guardian rumors be damned…webOS may have some life yet! Tonight we got a hat trick of awesome that largely flies in the face of the doom and gloom that was on the intertubes earlier today.
Mr. Bradley tells it like …

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By: , 10/26/2011 9:34 pm | 15 comments
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So just when we thought we had picked the winner of our AT&T Pre 3 there was a minor twist to the story…

Apparently Mr. Woiccak already has a Pre 3 and instead of selling it on eBay he graciously …

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By: , 10/18/2011 11:21 pm | 56 comments
This image always makes me hungry.

Our sister site, mobileRoundup, just got done liveblogging the Samsung / Google press conference and if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the webOS team must be just tickled pink right now.

Now we aren’t saying that Android 4.0/Ice …

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By: , 10/17/2011 8:14 pm | 9 comments
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Has it been two weeks already? Wow how time flies. There is less than one week left to support the site and get a chance to win your very own AT&T Pre 3.

We want to thank each and every …

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By: , 9/27/2011 4:37 pm | 48 comments
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webOS phones have never been good at battery life…sad truth, or is it?

I have owned almost every version and variant of webOS phone that have ever been made, and each of them have had such a horrible battery life …

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By: , 9/26/2011 11:30 am | 30 comments
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An interesting little video showed up recently on YouTube from a group called Malleable Mobiles. The concept phone is 3 curved AMOLED screens that can stand up straight with all screens on top of each other, become a little …

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By: , 9/26/2011 10:57 am | 63 comments
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A remote desktop client is one of those things that you almost HAVE to have on a tablet. Well, never fear…the TouchPad just got one by way of Splashtop!

The app is available now for a whopping 50% off ($9.99). …

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