Grams, the HP-privatized company that Open webOS continues to develop, working together with LG to a port of the opensourcebesturingssysteem for LG televisions. LG would be the first results of the collaboration at CES 2013-consumer electronics in January, want to show.
According to the site webOS Nation locks LG and HP in June this year an agreement for the porting of Open webOS to LG televisions. As part of the agreement, a number of LG-developers at HP are deployed for the project work and the team of HP the available motherboards with daarp the LG’s L9-dual-core-soc that the Korean tv manufacturer used in its LM960V and LM860V tv models.
The recent privatisation of HP’s webOS division in the company Gram did not end with the contract and the project is still led by Leonid Zolotarev HP. Keith Weng is responsible for the program management and Thom Davis, former project manager at Motorola, has charge of the technical part.
The development team is in the project two major challenges. First, it must be a solution to the long startup time of the operating system. So did HP’s TouchPad tablet running webOS and feature a 1.2 GHz dualcore soc from Qualcomm and 69 seconds to boot. The developers are thinking of putting the operating system to partially active to keep turning off the tv. The ‘wake’ of webOS from this sleep mode would be significantly faster than a cold boot of the system.
In addition, only a port of webOS is not sufficient for a fully-fledged smart tv operating system. Open webOS needs to be extended with a large number of apps that will alternative to smart tv systems already have. WebOS Nation gets under more Netflix-like app that should be developed. As a programming environment for Open webOS is Enyo.
According to webOS Nation would LG the project with Open webOS with HP started because it is not satisfied with the terms and conditions that Google the use of Google TV sets, and because it thinks that Google TV is not a party would be for Apple and the tv market would go to enter. LG showed at CES 2013 for the first LG tv based on Google TV and offers this now.