Thursday, October 16, 2014

HP officially kills off its webOS services

HP's attempt at a mobile OS began with the purchase of Palm – a startup, which was developing its own mobile-orinented Palm OS. The platform was then renamed to webOS and HP announced that it will become a universal OS to work across all of HP's smart devices. A few months later, the company launched 2 smartphones and a tablet, all powered by webOS – the HP Veer, HP Pre3, and the HP TouchPad.



Unfortunately, regardless of HP's ambitious plans, no further devices, bearing the in-house OS, were launched, and webOS was pretty much abandoned after its 3.0.5 update (Jan, 2012). It was later acquired ...



from PhoneArena - News http://ift.tt/11saM77

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