14 DAY TRIAL // webOS 2.0, the latest flavor of HP's mobile operating system, won't be released to older mobile phones until next year, the latest reports around the Internet point out. Reportedly, the company planned the release of this software update before the end of the ongoing year, but it seems that it has postponed the move.
According to a recent tweet from wireless carrier O2 Germany, and update to webOS 2.0 won't be released for its customers until the first quarter of the next year.
Basically, this means that the OS upgrade might be delivered to Palm devices on the carrier's network sometime between the beginning of January and the end of March 2011, provided that all things go as they should.
As the guys over at PreCentral note, since O2 Germany has always offered straight answers when it came to Palm handsets, they might be right this time as well.
However, this is only one side of the story, it seems. There is also the possibility that HP/Palm would plan on delivering a new OS version to its users in early 2011.
Dubbed webOS 2.1, that OS flavor would come with far more enhancements than what webOS 2.0.1 would come with, PreCentral notes.
The yet unannounced operating system variant would come with various improvements aimed specifically at the first generation devices, and not at the new Palm Pre 2.
For the time being, however, the release of a webOS 2.1 OS version that soon is only a rumor, and should be treated as such, though we hope that it would pan out in the end.
Until more info on this emerges, we should look out for the possible arrival of webOS 2.0 on older Palm devices.
Officially, the OS upgrade should arrive “in the coming months.” It would be delivered to all devices free of charge as an over-the-air update.