webOS Internals

Everything we worked out about webOS, kept online.

Palm and HP stopped supporting these phones in 2011. The homebrew community carried on — patches, package management, kernel work, a way into the Linux underneath. All of it is still here, still readable, and still open to edit.

Palm Pre
Palm Pre
2009
Palm Pixi
Palm Pixi
2009
HP Pre 3
HP Pre 3
2011
HP TouchPad
HP TouchPad
2011
3,015
pages of documentation
1,680
images and files
2009–2015
years of hardware covered
65
source repositories

Where to start

The wiki is large and was written over many years. These are the doors most people came in through.

Start here webOS Archive The living hub for legacy webOS: the restored app catalogue, the SDK and developer tools, active forums and Discord. If you want software to install on a device, or people to ask, go there first. What follows on this site is the reference material behind it — how the system works and how to change it. webosarchive.org

The hardware

Devices this archive documents. Most of the material assumes one of these in your hand.

Palm Pre
Palm Pre
2009
Palm Pixi
Palm Pixi
2009
Palm Pre Plus
Palm Pre Plus
2010
Palm Pixi Plus
Palm Pixi Plus
2010
Palm Pre 2
Palm Pre 2
2010
HP Veer
HP Veer
2011
HP Pre 3
HP Pre 3
2011
HP TouchPad
HP TouchPad
2011

Still a wiki, not a museum

Everything here moved to new hosting in 2026 with its full edit history intact. Accounts still work and pages can still be edited — if you find something wrong or missing, fix it. For webOS on hardware you can buy today, see LuneOS.