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CES2013: LG and Gram are hoping to show off the Open webOS LG TV .

Sunday, October 28, 2012 6:30

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CES2013: LG and Gram are hoping to show off the Open webOS LG TV .

According to webOSNation Gram (HP Palm webOS Open Source company) is working with LG on an Open webOS TV. The project of porting Open webOS to the big screen has been underway for several months.

Headed by HP’s Leonid Zolotarev, with Keith Weng leading program management and former Motorola project manager Thom Davis in charge of engineering, the Open webOS porting project has aimed to bring the user interface of webOS to the television, replacing LG’s aging NetCast smart TV platform.

There’s one hitch the Gram team working on the TV project is working hard to overcome, and that’s boot speed.

HP signed an agreement with LG in June around this project. LG’s also had multiple engineers sent to Sunnyvale to work with HP’s webOS engineers. They’ve also sent multiple LG L9 motherboards (L9 being LG’s dual core chipset made specifically for their smart televisions).

As for why LG is opting to pursue Open webOS for the smart television lineup, webOSnation have been told that they aren’t comfortable with Google’s terms for using Google TV (let alone the adoption rate of Google TV) and fear what Apple could accomplish if they were more aggressive in the TV market. So while Open webOS may not be LG’s property, it’s something that they can do with as they please, and with the willing assistance of HP/Gram.

LG and Gram are hoping to show off the Open webOS LG TV at CES 2013.