Thursday, February 10, 2011

HP will webOS to their computers later this year

Undoubtedly the presentation of the tablet was HP TouchPad star yesterday afternoon, ahead of the two phones, HP and Pre Veer 3, with which the American firm to retire at the current range. Unfortunately for fans of Palm, the shadow of Hewlett-Packard is too large and is gradually disappearing from the map.

But behind an idea so prevalent hardware, HP's bid for webOS. It seemed logical to keep watching on mobile, despite stiff competition in the market, more interesting has been found on the tablet, because here the market is untapped and webOS features are molded like a glove. But the news was we intend to take to computers as we advance a few days ago.

When it comes to computers, including laptops, netbooks, and even desktop systems, and it seems that an idea is not too distant future because HP wants to have the first products later this year. Govern the services and applications, ultimately the ecosystem surrounding a platform, is becoming vital to be productive over the competition.

A company like HP can afford to try, even though historical partners such as Microsoft may not make you put it to the case. Another strength of this strategy based on a common system, we find the possibilities of synchronization and communication between devices, something that the American company has already begun to show in the day yesterday with the tablets and phones, and will run printers and computers in a few months.

As an example, yesterday's demonstrations shared the url of a web between a TouchPad and Pre 3 simply approaching each other, so simple and transparent to the user. The example is simple, but I used to get an idea of where they want to go cross-operating system. HP did not want to give many details about the system more capable computers webOS as a personal computer, and can not imagine that the interface looks like what we had yesterday.

Perhaps his first destination is in the ever more interesting and better designed tactile TouchSmart computers. It's also possible that the system can be focused to be a perfect accompaniment to Windows, coexisting on the same computer, to keep the possibilities of Microsoft system, acquiring the simplicity and orientation webOS touch, in addition to communication with other family devices.

The impact on developers interested in webOS is important, given the ease of development and future use of the millions of PCs that HP can sell novelty included. In fact venture and that they will be 100 million users earlier than we can expect the current level iOS system, but adding to the number of compatible computers.

Everyone knows that the system development webOS, Enyo, is practically based on web technologies, so apart from hardware disparity between tablets and phones, it is very easy to adapt the applications. Can easily be transported to other environments suitable web browser, emulators separately.

So to get into computer applications, taking into account the touch interface does not seem to be a problem. Engadget People made a video of this part of the presentation: There is no need to review the branding of new products to see what prevails is the HP logo, in a good size. It may be a detail that the masses do not worry neither affects the final product quality, but certainly represents a historical moment, and sentimental, for all those followers of Palm, an innovator and leader in the world of mobile communications in the last 20 years.

I leave you with the entire conference video, in case you missed it: Image | Cnet. Videos | HP | Engadget.

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