Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today • Hacker News Board

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by protomyth » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

fname wrote: post #6

Touchpad leak: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/09/palm-touchpad-leaked-1-5-...

which links to http://www.precentral.net/it-s-touchpad-exclusive

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by ugh » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:27 PM UTC

binbasti wrote: post #10

ugh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s 6 pm in London, 19:00 in Paris and Berlin, right? Times zones make my brain hurt.

Try http://everytimezone.com

Thank you very much! That page is awesome.

The Google results for time zone conversion tools are spam filled and suck. I always give up quickly and do the conversion in my head. I’m going to bookmark this and hope that I don’t find myself in similar situation the next time I have to deal with time zones.

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by aidenn0 » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:29 PM UTC

xuki wrote: post #5

xal wrote: post #2

Please oh please open source it. You failed to do it with Be, please learn from the past!

I don't think so. WebOS is a valuable asset and HP definitely want to keep it to themselves. We'll see =).

I don't think they care if they keep it to themselves or not so long as they have a fair amount of control over it. They've been bitten in the past being tied to a 3rd party for improvements to their mobile OS and want to avoid that. If WebOS hadn't gone up for sale, they would likely have used Android

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by mhd » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

Just hope that they'll keep supporting the original Pre. I kinda like the little pebble, hardware is fast enough and with some decent software upgrades it still should come in handy.

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by aidenn0 » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:31 PM UTC

binbasti wrote: post #10

ugh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s 6 pm in London, 19:00 in Paris and Berlin, right? Times zones make my brain hurt.

Try http://everytimezone.com

Everyone seems to think that site is awesome, but it has never worked for me. I've tried firefox, chrome, midori and IE 8. What browser are you guys using?

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by mdb » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:32 PM UTC

Anyone know of any live-blogs following the event? Is there a live video broadcast?

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by mikecane » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:34 PM UTC

Veer, Pre 3, and HP TouchPad. So, those are the names. Still waiting to see what they are like.

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by ugh » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:35 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #15

binbasti wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try http://everytimezone.com

Everyone seems to think that site is awesome, but it has never worked for me. I've tried firefox, chrome, midori and IE 8. What browser are you guys using?

Safari on OS X. Just tested on Chrome (dev) and Firefox (beta), works there, too.

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by oconnore » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

Weird, the Pre2 hasn't even hit a major carrier and they are going to Pre3. Also, awesome.

Re: Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

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Post by oconnore » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 5:45 PM UTC

xal wrote: post #2

Please oh please open source it. You failed to do it with Be, please learn from the past!

webOS is already very open. It's basically a linux kernel with a few binary drivers for the radios, and there really isn't a need to hack on those.