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WebOS 3.0.4 released

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Re: WebOS 3.0.4 released

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Love one of the anonymous comments on there: "From one HP employee to another: THANK YOU for this awesome OS and OTA. The Touchpad, the Pre 3 ... such awesome products. I truly hope our new leadership will do the right thing and bring the platforms back."

It is an awesome OS except for one significant drawback: javascript. If not for the dependency on js these phones and tablets wouldn't lock-up hard so often or hang for several seconds after touching the screen more often than not. I know js fans will object but their single-threaded, interpreted language is the #2 source of Palm/HP's troubles.

The #1 Palm issue, however, is the hardware manufacturer/s. If Palm had been able to use the same CN fabs as Apple the Pre would be _big_. But they weren't and as a result the Pre/Pixi/Touchpad are larger than they could have been and, more significantly, the (Pre/Pixi) keyboards are the worst on any smartphone.

Re: WebOS 3.0.4 released

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This is still my #1 problem with the TouchPad: http://forums.hpwebos.com/t5/HP-TouchPad-Software-Hardware/A... Otherwise it's great.

Can you provide more detail? Is this when entering URLs directly? Have you tried going through j.mp or bitly.com and shortening the URL, then bookmarking that version?

It's when entering them directly, clicking on links, or using bookmarks. The & gets passed through to the server--it's not just an issue with the UI. Annoying as hell.

Re: WebOS 3.0.4 released

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post #24

I own a touchpad and without a developed app base it feels so rigid to me. I don't want to share links by email I want to share them through my various online accounts. I don't want to multitask by navigating to cards I want to have in-app multitasking through swipes. Even reading a PDF on it is painful because the font rendering is so poor. I don't think HP really "got it". It was barely worth the 99 I paid for it.…

Sounds like you should sell it on eBay to someone who loves webOS, and make yourself a tidy profit in the process. The workflow issues you describe are basically how webOS fundamentally works, so it sounds like it is a design decision that you will never be comfortable with.
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