I love WebOS. My DSL line just dropped this morning, and I'm using the WiFi hotspot built into my Pre to read HN. The 3G link is only slightly slower for web browsing (2.3 Mbps down, 330 kpbs up).
Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS
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#112Is there any way that WebOS could be ported to Android? If they're both linux then the drivers should be fairly compatible with the respected kernel mods, right?
The interface (Luna) should be quite portable to Android, I suppose.
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#113WebOS is definitely very cool. I doubt WebOS can overtake Android or iOS at this point, but it should be a solid third place in this market (I don't think other competitors like WP7 or Bada can make it).
Nokia makes WP7 #3 by default. A respectable #4 by volume would be fine if WebOS has a shot at #2 in quality. #1 in quality is, I trust, sewn up for practically everyone reading this, though with disagreements at great length and volume on which name to fill in.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Prompt already the best thing on your iPad? If not, I'd be curious to know how it stacks up. (Prompt costs US$5 for an iPad/iPhone version. Nobody get the vapors.)
I use prompt allmost everyday. Its THE best ssh app I have tried on a smartphone. I dont know webos/maemo, but in my time on palmos, symbian, windows mobile, android and ios I have not met a ssh app this good.
Webos/maemo have the same ssh client (and xterm) you have on a desktop linux.
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#115You know what's lacking from this list? A killer feature that both Android or iOS lacks. And that doesn't just have to be software, it can be the backing of other high profile manufacturers or a super low price point. The problem is that when you don't have market share you have to have bells and whistles the get geeks excited. I love HP as a company, and they're great as making stuff — but making an operating system…
Good point... if I was writing this again, I'd mention the Synergy system that ties in data sources from email, contacts, and calendar sites online into the core webOS PIM apps, giving you a unified view of everything. I didn't list it because it's a bit hard to build on, but I feel like it's the stand out feature. Oh, and really nice multitasking. Effortless app management... but those are more user concerns.
Well, now that the Google Tasks API is out, that should get integrated too.
Synergy is a great idea and it works for the most part. Still needs improvement though as some calendars have issues syncing.
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#116I love it simply because its the best SSH experience of all of the smartphones. One click gets me the phones real terminal and then "ssh -l me whereever.com". No bogus setup screens, with each server requiring a 5 minute fill in the blank session to connect to, no menus full of special keys to transmit (most covered with the orange key), just pure .ssh/id_dsa public key in my home-dir win . Its 10x easier than the be…
I see where you are going with this, but as a 'middle-adopter', I might wait until I can just install ubuntu on my phone.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were giving away Pre 2's. They probably still are giving them away if they still have them in stock.
According to the HP webOS Developer Forums' Hardware Section, the offer's done. In fact, a lot of developers who took part are still waiting for theirs from back in February/March. The Pre 2 giveaway to developers really could have been executed better, IMO. Some folks who were approved back then don't even know if they'll still get one, which is disconcerting. Google can drop 5,000 special-edition Samsung tablets in…
If anything, that's the single biggest problem with HP / Palm.
Execution is extremely shoddy. That and what seems like low attention span sometimes.
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#118So when those new phones they showed some months ago at Mobile World Congress are coming out?
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my main issues with WebOS from day one has been the lack of what I would regard as decent hardware. Another issue in the past, which I hope has much improved since is the developer outreach which really sucked when I tried to engage. This was pre-HP acquisition. The fact that @unwiredben is active in this discussion is a good sign.
The Pre actually had decent hardware except for being light on mem. The OMAP chip was particularly overclock friendly and once overclocked along with some additional tweaks was nice and fast. The problem was the earlier webOS versions had no GPU acceleration at all and ended seeming sluggish sometimes.
I have an old Sprint Pre and a Pre2. Even with the it clocked to 1.1GHz and an increase in the compcache the difference is quite noticeable. The Pre2 absolutely trounces it in performance. That extra 256MB makes a big difference.
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#120> There’s no cost to become a developer.
But there is, to submit (signed) apps?
https://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_register&... says
"Benefits include:
Enroll in the webOS Developer program ($99/year; covers up to xx application submissions)
Submit you webOS application(s) for review and approval by Palm"