Quick Takes on webOS

February 9, 2011 at 9:51 pm PT

Following HP’s Think Big, Think Small, Think Beyond event held in San Francisco today, Walt and Katie share their quick thoughts on the new Veer and Pre 3 smartphones and the TouchPad tablet. Walt also talks about the company’s strategy for deploying webOS across its entire product line, from smartphones to tablets to printers and to the desktop.

Tagged with desktop, event, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Palm, Pre 3, printers, products, smartphones, strategy, tablets, Think Beyond, Think Big, Think Small, TouchPad, Veer, video, WebOS

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Anonymous

I think the other issue is will there be a iTune type program for the WebOS that will work on Windows, Apple and Linux.
Anonymous

yup… there will be Sinergy music.
Anonymous

I dislike these video only posts. At least have a transcript of the video attached.
Anonymous

Nevermind!
Anonymous

Integration between WebOS and PC interesting…

Today, WebOS is effectively a visual shell over Linux on their phones…. I’d argue it is the best visual shell (GUI) I’ve seen over a unix-based system. How will that translate to the PC?

Options:
a) dual boot linux/webOS on PC;
b) virtual PC running linux/webOS on Win7 PC just as WinXP currently is supported “compatibility mode” under Win7;
c) port of WinOS GUI as a visual shell over Win7.

Key is the “synergy” (sick of the word) that WebOS on the Palm phones is famous for: integrating contacts, mail, calendars, messaging, login/passwords, etc. for Facebook, Gmail, eXchange, Live, etc for multiple login ids into one unified view of all mail, all calendars, all contacts, etc. automatically synced … at that!

And with ePrint integrated, if done well, we could have the same seamless interface to all the various “cloud” services integrated across phone, pad and PC.

Now… will they provide WebOS for the Mac? Given the common linux/unix underpinnings, it should be even easier to do for the Mac.