In our attempt to share the latest news about every little thing that Rahul Sood, CTO at HP’s gaming division, is doing (we’re still waiting on those pics from last week of that sandwich he made), we stumbled across something that was actually pretty cool.
Yesterday Rahul headed over to the Palm Facebook page to talk to the fans there, giving tips as to what is coming next in webOS 2.0, sharing the potential of the platform that is currently available, and generally just giving some excitement to the fans (and critics) of what HPalm is doing.
Obviously, he didn’t say anything official or even slightly hinting at features that are coming in the next releases of hardware and software, but he did make one specific statement very loud and clear; HP and Palm aren’t just going to continue listening and working with the awesome community that has built around them, they’re going to ‘double-down’ on it and give us more attention, even at high executive levels.
After the break you’ll be able to read his full statement from the Facebook page (which is only one comment in response to a few).
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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.
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One of my favorite PC games is Luxor, a color matching, shoot’em up, strategy game that is also known as ‘marble poppers’. With the latest webOS update allowing us to run PDK apps we now have beautiful, high powered games on our mobile phones. One of those games we are reviewing today is Sparkle that is available in Palm’s App Catalog for $3.00.
Sparkle is developed by 10tons Ltd. and utilizes the webOS PDK model. The game features a simple fantasy story line where the player must complete different levels to save Crowberry Woods, an enchanted forest that has been taken over by darkness and needs a hero to save it. The player starts on a map and work their way through the map to each important monument to unlock secrets, new game modes, bonuses and achievements.
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Update: Oh it’s on now! BusinessWire posted that HP raised its bid to $27/share. Shortly after, Dell matched their offer. HP has again raised its bid to $30/share!!! … Someone is gonna make quite the payday by the end of this…
Hewlett-Packard is on quite the shopping spree lately. After acquiring music streaming service company Melodeo in July, HP this week laid out a large bid for cloud services and storage specialist 3PAR – outbidding Dell handily in the process. But Dell has come back in force, upping their offer to 30 cents per share over HP’s bid of $24 per share. Rather then counter-bid, today HP simply acquired a different company, Stratvia Databases, that offers similar services to 3PAR. The terms of the deal are undisclosed as of this writing.
This is but one move in a series of many made by many mobile-industry stalwarts including HP, Dell, Google, and Apple with its purchase of Melodeo competitor LaLa to leverage the cloud to provide through mobile devices an always-on connected experience to user content. webOS is already well known for its Synergy service which preserves and maintains among many things your contacts, accounts and app information independently of your physical device. It is apparent HP intends to expand and develop upon the model of and success of Synergy with these corporate acquisitions. If this trend continues, soon all of our information and content may be hopping on the cloud-wagon.
[Sources: @5xBear, Industry Week, UKFAST, Engadget]
The apparently eco-conscious carrier O2 UK has put phones from HTC, Palm, LG, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung through a battery of tests to determine their environmental friendliness. Unfortunately only 93 percent of O2 UK’s phone lot is represented, with Apple and RIM both absent from the results.
The results concluded that while phones like the purposefully ‘Green’ Sony Ericsson Elm performed very well, the Palm Pre Plus tied with the LG Etna for the title of least eco friendly. While this is one test from one carrier with a hobbled list of tested phones compared with some of Palm’s competition here in the US, it is still troubling news. Apple, after taking some huge pubic relations hits to its image in 2006 from information released by Greenpeace, has made a concerted effort to be seen as a ‘Green’ company. If the results produced by the O2 UK study are accurate, Palm needs to react swiftly and strongly to correct this potentially huge issue. With new hardware almost certainly to be released in the near future, Palm can ill afford any missteps on their road back to profitability.
[Source: Gizmodo]
