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Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

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Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

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Just tap on the “Just Type” search bar and enter “upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart” (the classic NES Konami code!); an icon appears that lets you toggle this mode on and off. Wait, really? If that's not a joke, then it's kind of cool.

yeah, this entire thing has kinda impressed me, I'm on the lookout for a new ATM, may look into this

Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

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post #8

if only there was a good (and hopefully cheap) hardware device to go with webOS, it would definitely be cool to hack with. The Palm Pre, however, in my opinion did not function as a useful device, mostly because of the hardware (and lack of applications compared to iOS and android devices).

Care to elaborate on the hardware? Speed seemed decent enough (compared with e.g. the first iPhone) and I personally really liked the "pebble" form factor. Sad that it'll never see webOS 2...

Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

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post #8

if only there was a good (and hopefully cheap) hardware device to go with webOS, it would definitely be cool to hack with. The Palm Pre, however, in my opinion did not function as a useful device, mostly because of the hardware (and lack of applications compared to iOS and android devices).

Our new HP Veer phone with webOS is launching on AT&T next week. PreCentral reports a pretty good deal for people signing a new contract - http://www.precentral.net/white-ATT-veer-be-free-best-buy-av....

Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

#14

Just tap on the “Just Type” search bar and enter “upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart” (the classic NES Konami code!); an icon appears that lets you toggle this mode on and off. Wait, really? If that's not a joke, then it's kind of cool.

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Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

#15

Just tap on the “Just Type” search bar and enter “upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart” (the classic NES Konami code!); an icon appears that lets you toggle this mode on and off. Wait, really? If that's not a joke, then it's kind of cool.

Yep, the konami code to get into dev mode has been in webos since the very beginning. I am talking webos 1.0.

Also, WebOs is great. I really like it and the UI but so far the devices have been fairly unimpressive. The original Palm Pre was good for about 3 months. After which android and iphone have gotten so many updates.

If the Palm Pre 3 lives up to it's ideal, it would definitely be worth a look but unfortunately, as cool as the OS is, the hardware just doesn't match.

Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

#17

Just tap on the “Just Type” search bar and enter “upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart” (the classic NES Konami code!); an icon appears that lets you toggle this mode on and off. Wait, really? If that's not a joke, then it's kind of cool.

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Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

#18

Just tap on the “Just Type” search bar and enter “upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart” (the classic NES Konami code!); an icon appears that lets you toggle this mode on and off. Wait, really? If that's not a joke, then it's kind of cool.

It's not a joke. It really works that way. Pretty cute.

Re: Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS

#19
post #6

1. Ares 2. Cards 3. Notifications 4. Just Type 5. Exhibition 6. OTA updates 7. Gestures 8. Synergy 9. The WebOS community 10. WebOS Internals

Wow, I hadn't seen Ares before. An in-browser SDK. Sweet.

Honestly, WebOS itself is way better than android or iOS, it's just that Palm sucked at marketing it, the Pre was only available on Sprint, they didn't attract many app developers, and they only sold 2 WebOS phones. I hope it's not too late for HP to fix it.

Between the gestures, notifications, card-based multitasking, and JS/CSS/HTML apps I'm in heaven.

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