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In the last hurrah of the grand webOS saga, the famed CEO, Jon Rubinstein has left the company. He was responsible for bringing Palm from the bottom of the market to owning and operating one of the best mobile operating systems ever created, webOS. This has been confirmed at AllThingsD, in a brief statement from an HP spokesperson: “Jon has fulfilled his commitment and we wish him well.” And that was that.
More coverage at the source links. Via: The Verge, AllThingsD, Image credit: Giz
Since webOS is being made open-source to keep it alive (thus entering Android territory), HP has made it official that the code for open webOS 1.0 will be available this September, while the Enyo 1.0 and Enyo 2.0 code is available today. What is Enyo, you ask? It is the application framework behind webOS 3.0 used on the Touchpad; when all versions of code are compiled together, it will be known as Open webOS 1.0.
As for current webOS users: you’ll need some hacking skills to make these developer tools work on your Touchpad, however HP is looking into ways of making the Pre, Pixi, and Touchpad compatible with the upcoming Open webOS — all they need is time. Via: HP webOS Dev Blog
This is HP’s awesome 3.9 pound and 20mm thick ultraportable with a scratch-proof design: the Envy Spectre 14. Base specs include a 14-inch, 1600 x 900 Gorilla Glass Radiance Display (huzzah!), Core i5-2467M CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 9-hour battery, backlit keyboard, carrying case and — hold it for a second — an NFC chip built into the palm rest for transferring URLs from your phone’s browser, which HP says will work first with Android phones. Not only does the $1,400 get you all that, but an Intel Wireless Display chip, HP’s CoolSense technology, Beats, HP Wireless Audio, full copies of Photoshop and Premiere Elements and a two-year subscription to Norton Internet Security. That’s epic. Upgrade options include 256GB SSD and an extra 4GB of RAM, but that’s not even really important considering how awesome this hardware is already.
The Spectre goes sale in the United State starting on February 8, continuing towards Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Chile and Mexico in March. Full PR after the break.
It’s official. Meg Whitmann has saved webOS by cutting the losses and making it open-source. New tablets could be produced, along with software upgrades, however smartphones are probably not in the cards. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Meg Whittman stated, “The answer to that is yes but what I can’t tell you is whether that will be in 2012 or not,” and that “But we will use webOS in new hardware, but it’s just going to take us a little longer to reorganize the team in a quite different direction than we’ve been taking it in the past.” Is this good news? Yes. Was it expected? No. Do I label this as “FTW’?
Darn yes. Finally a corporate decision that makes sense by HP. Via: HP, The Verge
HP CEO Meg Whitman states that in the coming weeks they will decide whether or not to keep webOS, and that if they do it will be in a big way. But to give you a little excerpt from yesterday’s investor call, below you can see how much money HP lost on the webOS experiment — $3.3 billion when it failed to absorb its fall, and $1.2 billion to buy it in the first place. Ouch.
First, we took a total charge to operating income of $788 million. This was associated with the wind down of our webOS device business. This charge included a net revenue reduction of $142 million related to the sales incentive program, $548 million in costs of sales due to supplier-related obligations and inventory reserves, and $98 million in operating expenses and restructuring charges. Second, as a result of our decision to wind down webOS devices, we have taken an impairment expense of $885 million against the carrying value of goodwill and purchase intangible assets related to the acquisition of Palm.
Via: MarketWire
Three laptops launching December 7th: the Envy 15, Envy 17 and Envy 17 3D starting at $1,100, $1,250 and $1,600, respectively. What they all offer you is a really original design that has been tuned to the likes of HP quite nicely this time, and has some great specs to boot (including Beats Audio software enhancements). The Envy 15 will receive an optional 15.6-inch, 1080p Radiance IPS screen panel, built-in backlit keyboard that adjusts to light settings and a great thin design. The entire Envy line will have access to quad-core CPUs, and come standard with six speakers, a subwoofer, HP’s CoolSense technology and support for HP Wireless Audio. The Envy 17, in particular, can be configured with either a 128GB mSATA SSD or dual 1TB drives. And of course all of them have Beats Audio on-board.
As for what you were waiting for, the Envy 15 will come with the following base specs: Core i5-2430M CPU, 6GB of RAM, a 500GB 7,200RPM hard drive, 1366 x 768 display, Bluetooth, Intel Wireless Display, a slot-loading DVD burner and AMD Radeon HD graphics (HP didn’t say which one, yet), HDMI, one DisplayPort, two USB 3.0 sockets and one of the 2.0 persuasion. As for the 8-cell, 76Wh battery, it purportedly provides up to nine hours of life. The Envy 17 starting specs aren’t much different, as they add more hard drive space and more ports.
Press release after the break.
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If the HP Slate 500 was proof that a Windows 7 tablet won’t work, then it’s the Slate 2 that will show you HP is dedicated to keeping the Slate series alive. It’s the same 8.9-inch tablet seen last year, except with Swype, a price tag of $699 with stylus, a refreshed CPU (that being Intel’s Atom Z670), and a 32GB SSD. The rest of the specs for this Windows 7 tablet are a 1024 x 600-resolution for the 8.9-inch N-Trig panel touchscreen and a TPM chip for added security, making it very enterprise-friendly. It goes on sale worldwide later this month. Via: HP (Finland)
After much rumor and suspense, HP will be keeping their Personal Systems Group dedicated to making laptops and desktops — their best profession. It’s a plus for HP’s new CEO, Meg Whitman, and it shows that she, unlike H’s previous CEO, is willing to make decisions that, oh well, I don’t know – make sense.
Oh, and also, HP plans to make a Windows 8 tablet.
Via: HP
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