Last month, Laptop Magazine put out an interesting piece called the Top 25 Most Influential People in Mobile Tech 2010. We all seemed to totally miss this one. Thanks to AboutwebOS, we found out that someone we all know and love was on this list.
Coming in at #18 was our favorite VP and CTO of HP Personal Systems Group, Phil McKinney. Laptop Magazine had some nice stuff to say about him.
We’re not sure what the final product is going to look like, but now that HP has acquired Palm (and its webOS operating system) HP’s Slate has the potential to be much more interesting. What will it finally look like? Ask McKinney, the ultimate arbiter of the Slate project. McKinney has openly wondered on his personal blog when would be the best time to release such a device. But if the world’s leading PC maker gets it right, the Slate could challenge Apple’s iPad, which sold more than 1 million units in its first month. In May rumors starting circulating that HP’s webOS-powered Slate would launch as soon as late summer or early fall. The code name for this product? Hurricane, which is fitting since McKinney’s baby could very well blindside the Android competition.
Congratulations Phil! Well-deserved. Hopefully the next time we see this Most Influential person, he won’t be holding a flexible display prototype, or a blacked-out prototype, but a brand-new webOS phone running webOS 2.0. (Hey, we can dream can’t we?)
If you are reading this blog entry, then it is highly likely that you already agree with us that webOS is really the best mobile OS on the market. You’re probably already really excited about webOS 2.0 coming out soon.
There has already been a lot of buzz about webOS 2.0 on major tech websites like Engadget and Gizmodo. But let’s say you are a rival company to Palm, like Apple, Google, or RIM. Should you be worried about webOS 2.0?
PCWorld makes that exact point. Now that the webOS 2.0 SDK has been released to developers, new HP/Palm hardware cannot be too far behind. Read the rest of this entry »
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 our appetites. When someone as high up in HP as Phil McKinney has pictures of him using some blacked-out devices, our attention is grabbed.
Not only is there one mystery device in the picture, but there is three! Could they be the HP Hurricane, and a Palm Pre 2? Could that be a webOS watch on his wrist that is blacked out? What could they be? Our minds are racing. The item in the top picture is definitely tablet-sized. The item in bottom picture is smartphone size-ish. Read the rest of this entry »
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 will be fun, but also a little educational. The latest one that I decided to try was Rockus Animals ($0.99) by Rockus Studios, LLC.
Rockus Animals is an animal sounds game/quiz app. There are two modes that you can choose from. The first one lets you browse through a large gallery of animal photos. The app shows the name of the animal and plays the sound that it makes. If you want to replay the sound, then you just tap on the animal name again. You swipe in either direction to change to a different animal. My only complaint was that some of the animal sounds were a bit too quiet, so I had to play some of the sounds a few times.
