Rare webOS goodies spotted in drool-worthy photo

webosstuffFormer HP/Palm devrel member, Lisa Brewster (@Adora), posted this awesome webOS collection photo on her Twitter yesterday in commemoration of webOS’ 7th birthday. Several things in this photo are eye-catching to say the least! Go ahead…click the picture!

Ok, are you seeing what I’m seeing? Let’s start with the most rare and work from there.

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The webOS browser is aging but whose fault is it?

I’ve read it before and said it myself. The webOS browser isn’t what it used to be. But what’s to blame? Is it old webOS browser programming? Outdated webkit? Slower processors? Smaller amounts of RAM? Well, it could be all of that but modern web practices aren’t helping things. And that’s a problem for web-OS.

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HP is to Palm as Lenovo is to Motorola…Not Good

Motorola-SPICE-Android-Phone-looks-just-like-the-Palm-Pre1Remember the confusion about what Palm was meant to be and do for HP? I know you do. I’ll spare you the recap.

The Verge has the story today on the similarities between HP/Palm and Lenovo/Motorola. Feel free to cringe along with me and read their story.

Summary: Lenovo is repeating HP’s mistake with their ownership of Motorola.

To those Motorola die-hard fans out there, I’m so, so sorry. I feel your pain.

RIP Motorola (soon)

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LuneOS May Stable Release: Café mocha

Welcome to May, LuneOS fans! It’s been over 2 months since our last stable release, but don’t worry: We have been working extremely hard in bringing a lot of updates to the underlying system.

These kinds of upgrades on the lower level of our OS have significant impact and usually lead to some regressions as well. This was one of the reasons why we didn’t have a release last month and the release this month is a bit later than usual. We wanted to iron out some critical bugs first.

Check out what we’ve been up to and get to the builds!

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