Talk Turns to Running WebOS on Android Phones - mooreadaystromple49

In a reversal of sorts, some people are keen to freight webOS along their Android devices, now that Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to make the software open source.

HP aforesaid originally Friday that it bequeath make the code behind webOS available under an open-source license. It aforementioned the accompany would be an active player and investor in the project.

Developers and former webOS enthusiasts are now excited close to the possibility of loading webOS onto their Android phones.

"I'm sure this is a smallish slipway off but it would be great if this means we can essentially lay out webOS connected the devices of our choosing. i.e. Droid 2 with webOS," one person wrote connected the PreCentral Forum.

"I'd bed to see webOS connected my Nexus S," another wrote on the XDA Developers forum.

That marks a reversal from earlier this year, when populate were scrambling to buy HP's discounted webOS TouchPad tablets with the plan of functional Android on them. Aft HP discontinued its webOS-based phones and tablets, information technology injured the price of the TouchPad to $99. The TouchPads sold knocked out quickly As people realized it was one of the lowest-cost tablets with quality ironware available. Just since buyers feared that HP would vacate webOS, they bought the tablets intending to load Android on them, hoping developers would do the heavy lifting to enable that. 1 website even offered a amplitude to the developer who could port wine the software first.

While whatever of the talk Friday mentioned tablets, most is about porting webOS to Humanoid phones. IT's unreadable how long such a project might take. HP must low gear make the webOS encipher available, and IT hasn't said until no when information technology will do that. When it does, developers will need to drop time making it work on hardware planned for Android.

Just some people expect that body of work to offse soon. "The xda devs bequeath be gruelling at run before long, bank thereon… i see great things coming here. can you imagine running webos on [an Evo 4G] or the galaxy link?" one person wrote on the PreCentral forum. XDA is a forum where developers work together on mobile software projects.

Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Serve. Keep up Nancy along Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-postal service address is Nancy_Gohring@idg.com