Modding community offers a $ 1500 Bounty to port Android touch panel

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The touchpad, selling fire more or less petered out this weekend and thousands of HP'S little pills that have found new homes. Not all it seems like WebOS, although, as an increasing number of people who bought bargain bin dvuhknopocnyh clamoring for tablet experience, it's a bit more ... for example, relevant.

Thanks to its open nature, Android OS choice for port touchpad, and now people on Modding community called HackNMod offer bounties devs who can make it happen.

The total amount of money up for grabs is $ 1500, but it is divided into several parts, so a few devs get a chance to win.

The one who first succeeded in obtaining the basic Android port "and running on the touch pad network $ 400. HackNMod is not to dwell on what exactly constitutes a "port", but is expected to have a device for download in the Android with a decent degree of stability. Sub-bounties run the gamut as payments: a command that gets the WiFi to work nabs $ 350, audio team gets $ 300 and multitouch team receives $ 100. Developers will have another face: their decisions should be fairly easy for the average user to install on their own.

Like all things, there is a little catch: a $ 450 for Android with the port itself goes from HackNMod in pockets, the rest remain to authors. In a sense, this is the perfect system for your project as follows: functions with the greatest demand (I hope) are those which will be financed. Interested parties can also throw in money for other functions, they want to see the work, leading to a sub-bounties for wanted devs to move on.

Itching to throw your hat in the ring? Don't forget to place your code on GitHub and provide photo & video evidence. Ready, go!

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Weekend Wacky jumble a picture: what's wrong with this touch panel ads?

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It's official: HP kills off webOS phones and touch pad

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Brace yourselves, webOS fans.

In the hours before the Conference call Q3 later today, HP has just confirmed that they would cease operations associated with the touch pad and all the phones webOS.

According to their press release:

HP announced that it plans to announce that it will cease operations for webOS devices, specifically the touchpad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options for optimizing the value of the webOS software, go ahead.

This news will come as a huge hit in the gut for fans of webOS (including me, although you can't say that we could not see it coming), many of which were the product of years — the first in the hope that eventually the Palm will be worthy of a pretty fantastic device's operating system, and later in the hope that the HP purchase of Palm could spark a fire, which simply never seemed tolight.

On the upside, webOS, the itself is not dead – at least not just yet. HP wording up above leaves things a bit blurred, with at least two potential routes remains open: licensing webOS to other other, phone/tablet device sticking webOS (HP has already made plans to put it in the printers and cars). Until further notice, however, this is essentially dead in the water.

One for webOS devices this evening, my fellow geeks.

Update: If HP output still saving face, here's a way to do it.

Update: HP Stephen Dewitt says, "we are not going from webOS." they will continue their efforts to advance and may license the OS, but his life as we know that it is definitely over.

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Panasonic Pocket server streams video and music on your iPhone/iPod touch

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If you like the consumers of the media on your iPhone or iPod touch, which is stored somewhere else, you can take a look at the fact that Panasonic announced [JP] for the Japanese market in recent times. The so-called DY-object ' pocket, is a "wireless streaming video, music and pictures from SD card/SDHC/SDXC for these devices.

Mini server uses IEEE 802.11 b/g Wi-FI, comes with a USB port and is just 66.8 × 117 × 13 mm (weight: 82 g). It supports video in MP4, MP3 and JPEG. Panasonic specifically targeted at users of DIGA equipment such as TVs (which can take the SD card from these devices to use DY-object).

The company said 64 GB SDXC card shops, about 88 hours of standard-definition pocket server itself offers 10 hours of battery life.

Panasonic plans to begin selling the device in their Japanese online store only on September 15 (price: $ 195). So far, were declared international sales plans (but the Airstash looks like a good alternative).

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