webOS dev mode

[ElZorro]

So I had one of our interns playing around with the webOS development kit, and he mentioned getting the phone into root mode. I asked him how he did it. 'Easy, you just do the Konami Code'. I damn near fell out of my chair. The kid was born 5 years after I started using the code... he had to google it to even know what it was.

Some info:

http://gizmodo.com/5285381/palm-pre-new ... s-up-again

I don't care if it was just to turn the phone off—the fact the Palm Pre uses the Konami Code for anything is amazing. In this case, you type in "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" in your phone to access dev mode.

I feel really f'in old.

[Sabre]

HAHAHA! Now that is some funny stuff!

[chicken n waffles]

i'm convinced the code will save my life one day

[complacent]

Oh wow, that's too funny.

[Sabre]

Along the WebOS lines: HP: WebOS Will Be On Every PC We Ship in 2012
I know Colin is a fan thus far. I want to play with it before making any comment

[complacent]

Along the WebOS lines: HP: WebOS Will Be On Every PC We Ship in 2012
I know Colin is a fan thus far. I want to play with it before making any comment

i think it has jesusphone potential. seriously. it's like chromium and ios crammed into one. i have very, very high hopes.

two words: resolution agnostic.

boo-ya.

[Sabre]

Colins wet dream: HotHardware

WebOS may be "dead," but it's far from gone and buried. HP noted that the software would live on in some form or another, with open source coding to be released into the wild so that device lovers could do with it what they wanted. As 2012 hits full stride, WebOS is poking its head out of the door once more, with deliver of quite a few things in the mobile OS' universe. According to HP, these are being released this month: extensions to QtWebKit, the release of Isis (our web browser), HP's integration with JavaScript core, UI Enyo widgets, and HP's governance model.

"To stay at the forefront, webOS required a fast, standards-compliant web browser engine to provide the core of both the standalone browser and the rendering technology for the platform and its apps. For this reason, we chose QtWebKit to power the next generation experience for webOS. QtWebKit offers unrivaled speed and standards compliance while providing a powerful and fast platform for Enyo and apps. WebKit is also the point of integration between the underlying System Manager, which will be open sourced later this year, and the web rendering layer of webOS.

Pretty cool!