HP Touchstone Touch-to-share lets devices swap URLs, ‘Exhibition’ mode added for phones
February 9, 2011 No Comment
So, HP is extending ” Touchstone ” to mean more than “that heavy, slanted magnet thing that my Pre always slips off of.” For starters, the TouchPad has a Touchstone charging dock — it’s not magnetic, but at least you don’t have to worry about plugging the thing in, and it’s particularly suited to working with a keyboard. But that’s not the real magic. HP has enabled its three new webOS devices (The TouchPad , Veer , and Pre 3 ) to communicate over Touchstone using “Touch-to-share” tech. You simply place your phone on top of the TouchPad, as illustrated, and whatever you’re viewing on the phone pops up in the tablet’s browser. We’re not sure how this works bi-directionally, but HP mentions both scenarios, so hopefully it shouldn’t be that difficult to configure the URL to come from the tablet and land on the phone. The two devices have to be on the same webOS account, however, so don’t get any crazy ideas about sharing URLs with friends. Naturally, there should be a lot more ” Continuous Client “-style uses for this tech in the future, but we’d say URL pushing is a good start. Finally, the old-fashioned Touchstone is going to work with the Veer and Pre 3, which will now be sent into an “Exhibition” mode when docked. The mode allows the phone to display photos or upcoming appointments, depending on the user’s particular level of sentimentality. For more on all of HP’s webOS announcements today, click here ! HP Touchstone Touch-to-share lets devices swap URLs, ‘Exhibition’ mode added for phones originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Time Inc. has been trying to work out a deal on tablet magazine subscriptions for some time now, and it’s just made a fairly big move in that direction with the help of HP. It confirmed at its ” Think Beyond ” event today that it has teamed up with the publisher to offer subscriptions to some of its magazines on the TouchPad when it launches this summer. That will apparently include Sports Illustrated , Time and People initially, with Fortune and other Time Inc. titles to follow further on down the road, according to AdWeek . Still no word on pricing, but HP promises they’ll deliver an “immersive reading” experience. Update: Palm’s Lisa Bewster has confirmed via Twitter that this deal also involves Time getting its big wish : subscribe to the print magazine and you’ll get full access to the tablet version. For more on all of HP’s webOS announcements today, click here ! Time inks deal with HP to bring magazine subscriptions to the TouchPad originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Palm HP didn’t bother mentioning the webOS versions during its ‘Think Beyond’ event today, but based on a little fine print on the outfit’s official Touchstone portal, we’ve learned that the TouchPad will ship with webOS 3.0 (a heretofore unheard of build), while the Veer and Pre 3 will get going with webOS 2.2. That said, the incredible Tap-to-Share functionality that’ll enable these slates and phones to converse with one another will also support “webOS 2.2 or higher” on the phones, suggesting that an update could be in the waiting. We’ll keep you updated as we hear more. Follow along with HP’s announcements right here in our ongoing liveblog ! HP’s TouchPad shipping with webOS 3.0, Veer and Pre 3 with webOS 2.2 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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HP has plenty of great new stuff to announce in the phone and tablet space today, but something is notably absent: the Palm brand. It appears to be a casualty of this acquisition and subsequent “scale,” and while the brand might not mean much to the modern smartphone consumer, it will be sorely missed by those of us who have been looking to Palm (in all its various forms) for handheld innovation for roughly two decades. HP is keeping the webOS brand around, however, so there’s that — and hopefully nobody will notice when we prefix it with an under-the-breath Palm when we’re feeling a little sentimental. RIP, Palm: 1992 – 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The HP Pre 3: 1.4GHz Qualcomm CPU, 3.6-inch WVGA, familiar sliding QWERTY
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The first Pre breathed new life into Palm. The Pre 2 , on the other hand, didn’t exactly have the same luster and longevity. Here’s to a decidedly Palm-less round three . The QWERTY slider with the all-too-familiar form factor has a 3.6-inch 800 x 480 display, 5 megapixel camera with AF and LED flash, HD video, a front-facing camera for video calling, mobile hotspot. Under the hood? A Qualcomm CPU running at 1.4GHz (!), HSPA+ and EVDO Rev A — yep, it’s a world phone — and the same RAM as the Pre 2 (that’s 512MB DRAM). It’ll be Touchstone compatible, naturally, and will switch to Exhibition mode when docked to show pictures and upcoming appointments. It’ll comes with either 8GB or 16GB of storage. There’s some interesting synergy going on where the TouchPad tablet can take Pre 3′s phone calls. So yeah, we’re looked at marked improvements over the Pre 3′s predecessors, particularly in resolution and processing. This one’s gonna keep you waiting, though — available is this summer. Developing. Check out our liveblog of HP / Palm’s “Think Beyond” webOS event , and news on the HP Veer and HP TouchPad ! Gallery: HP Pre 3 The HP Pre 3: 1.4GHz Qualcomm CPU, 3.6-inch WVGA, familiar sliding QWERTY originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …HP Veer: smallest smartphone in the webOS stable, 2.6-inch display, coming this spring
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You wanted a small smartphone? Well, you’ve got it in HP’s Veer , the very first webOS -based device to bear the HP name alone without Palm’s alongside packing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7230 processor at 800MHz. Other headline specs include a 2.6-inch 320 x 400 display, 5 megapixel EDoF camera, HSPA+ support, 8GB of storage, an accelerometer, proximity and light sensors (as usual), Touchstone compatibility, and mobile hotspot support. It’s genuinely cute — but keyboard usability will be a big question that we’ll need to have answered when the phone is released this spring. No word on carriers yet, and pricing is set to be decided upon “at a later date.” Update : Added the full press release and a demonstration video after the break! For more on all of HP’s webOS announcements today, click here ! Gallery: HP Veer Gallery: HP Veer press shots Continue reading HP Veer: smallest smartphone in the webOS stable, 2.6-inch display, coming this spring HP Veer: smallest smartphone in the webOS stable, 2.6-inch display, coming this spring originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’re inside and things are getting underway — the event officially starts at the times below. Read along after the break to see what’s happening right now! 07:00AM – Hawaii 10:00AM – Pacific 11:00AM – Mountain 12:00PM – Central 01:00PM – Eastern 06:00PM – London 07:00PM – Paris 09:00PM – Moscow 11:30PM – Mumbai 03:00AM – Tokyo (February 10th) 05:00AM – Sydney (February 10th) Continue reading Live from HP / Palm’s ‘Think Beyond’ webOS event! Live from HP / Palm’s ‘Think Beyond’ webOS event! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Here at HP’s ‘Think Beyond’ webOS event, Jon Rubinstein just announced that the Pre 2 will be available to pre-order tomorrow on Verizon Wireless, right in line with what rumors had suggested. You know, just in case you aren’t interested in the Pre 3 that was just announced. Too bad pricing details weren’t included… For more on all of HP’s webOS announcements today, click here ! Palm Pre 2 up for pre-order tomorrow on Verizon Wireless originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …WebOS-based Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad leaked on HP’s site, likely on sale today
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Whoa, Nelly! With HP’s highly touted press event just hours from commencing, it looks as if the web admins are testing the waters with what’s about to go down. On HP’s Home & Home Office shopping page, there’s a drop-down under “Deals & Offers” that quite clearly reveals the outfit’s planned triumvirate: the HP Veer (a name HP filed a trademark for back in December), Pre 3 and TouchPad . Those are slated to bring webOS in “S, M and L” flavors, though it’s unclear whether the Veer or Pre 3 will be the smallest. HP has managed to yank the teaser from its US portal, though it still looks live internationally. There’s no guarantee that any of this will ship momentarily but seriously, why list something like this if all three weren’t going to be on sale by sundown? Here’s hoping! WebOS-based Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad leaked on HP’s site, likely on sale today originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …IBM’s Mira supercomputer does ten petaflops with ease, inches us closer to exascale-class computing
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Say hello to the Blue Gene/Q, or if you’re looking for something a bit less intimidating, “Mira.” That’s IBM’s latest and greatest concoction, a ten-petaflop supercomputer capable of running programs at ten quadrillion calculations a second. Hard to say who’d win between Mira and Watson , of course, but there’s absolutely no question who’d come out on top if Mira were pitted against her predecessor Intrepid (hint: Mira’s 20x faster). To put this all in perspective, IBM ‘s chiming in with this: “If every man, woman and child in the United States performed one calculation each second, it would take them almost a year to do as many calculations as Mira will do in one second.” Mira’s next stop is at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, where it’ll be used to tackle 16 projects in particular that were drawn from a pool of proposals to gain access to her capabilities. We’re told that these include a range of initiatives — from reducing energy inefficiencies in transportation and developing advanced engine designs to spurring advances in energy technologies — and in time, it could lead to exascale-class computers “that will be faster than petascale-class computers by a factor of a thousand.” And here we are getting excited about a 5GHz Core i7 . Continue reading IBM’s Mira supercomputer does ten petaflops with ease, inches us closer to exascale-class computing IBM’s Mira supercomputer does ten petaflops with ease, inches us closer to exascale-class computing originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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