It’s one of the most popular topics on the webOS Nation forums. Threads get started quite regularly about how to get a brand new, modern webOS handset. We all crave that next leap forward in hardware that signals the revival of our beloved OS. In this series of articles we’ll take a realistic look at what the options might possibly be.
Part I: DIY (Do It Yourself)
Welcome back pivotCE fans! We have another interview for you! Hans Kokx comes to us from the webOS Ports Team (among other areas of webOS-dom). See below for our conversation.
There are Android tablets from 2013 which will never see the KitKat update and then there is our beloved TouchPad from 2011, and you know what? It can run KitKat!
Thanks to developer Flintman, part of the Evervolv Team, the latest version of Android can be flashed alongside webOS. Continue reading HP TouchPad meets KitKat
DeveloperTech interviewed ex-Palm employee, Gray Norton (now LG’s Director of the Enyo Framework and Tools) about LG’s plans for Smart TVs and how Enyo is being incorporated in their development. Among what Gray had to say, there was talk about webOS and how the work LG has done with Enyo for next year’s TVs lends itself to be used with and without webOS attached to it. Hmmmmm…
Continue reading LG Enyo Director interviewed – talks webOS, Smart TV demo date
Have you ever browsed around the webOS Nation Forums and read about people installing webOS 2.1.0 on their Sprint Pres? How about installing webOS 2.2.4 on their Pre 2s? Or mashing together a Sprint Pre 2 with either of the above? Besides the hardware part of a Sprint Pre 2, this is all done via webOS Internals‘ Meta-Doctor. This isn’t the latest news in the world of webOS, of course. However, since the original “how-to” over at webOS Internals is a bit dated I thought it fitting to provide a step-by-step to get it to work for you! If you’ve always meant to do it but never gotten around to it, dust off that Pre, pull out your USB cable, and read on!
