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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

by m0hit 15y ago

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).

mhd 15y ago
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...
- warthogkernel 15y ago
  webOS 2.1 can be installed on the Pre if you make use of the Meta-Doctor. Some additional hoops to jump through but it's entirely doable along with overclocking, you end up with a pretty snappy device. http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_2_Upgrade http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_2_Upgrade
  - jackson71 15y ago
    You want to be working on current-gen hardware if you're baselining future development efforts at 2.x going forward. What you don't want to be using as your sole dev/test unit is a two year-old device using an unofficial workaround to get an OS version installed that was never intended to be used on it. It's fine if you want to support those people that decided to use the workaround by having one of these franken-units around as a secondary edge-case device to test on, but it should never be the only device you use to develop and test with. I have a 1Ghz overclocked Sprint Pre at 1.4.5 as my "daily driver" and another Sprint Pre I've upgraded to 2.0 for testing such cases.
unwiredben 15y ago
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-available-in-store-pre-order http://www.precentral.net/white-ATT-veer-be-free-best-buy-av....

by m0hit 15y ago

mhd 15y ago

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...

warthogkernel 15y ago
webOS 2.1 can be installed on the Pre if you make use of the Meta-Doctor. Some additional hoops to jump through but it's entirely doable along with overclocking, you end up with a pretty snappy device. http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_2_Upgrade http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_2_Upgrade
- jackson71 15y ago
  You want to be working on current-gen hardware if you're baselining future development efforts at 2.x going forward. What you don't want to be using as your sole dev/test unit is a two year-old device using an unofficial workaround to get an OS version installed that was never intended to be used on it. It's fine if you want to support those people that decided to use the workaround by having one of these franken-units around as a secondary edge-case device to test on, but it should never be the only device you use to develop and test with. I have a 1Ghz overclocked Sprint Pre at 1.4.5 as my "daily driver" and another Sprint Pre I've upgraded to 2.0 for testing such cases.

unwiredben 15y ago

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-available-in-store-pre-order http://www.precentral.net/white-ATT-veer-be-free-best-buy-av....