The Palm Touchstone can be said to be quite the exquisite piece of consumer electronics technology, having introduced wireless charging to the failed line of Palm smartphones. Actually, when you mull over it, don’t you think it to be rather strange that HP’s Palm and webOS failed eventually, despite showing a fair bit of promise, especially with webOS’ card-type mobile operating system? Well, it seems that the Palm Touchstone that you see above is in the middle of being repurposed so that it will play nice with the Nexus 7 from Google. This is not the first time something like it has happened, as there has been previous mods made to the Palm Touchstone to have it play nice with Android smartphones, but Rod Whitby of webOS Internals fame figured out he wants something that would work with his Nexus 7.
Rod relied on a pair of standard phone Touchstone coils, and he has more or less managed to know just how the charging circuit works, with the remaining bit to be figured out being the assembly of stuff. Hopefully Rod will get the job done, and in due time!
