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just picked up one this weekend, some reasons are: 1. WebOS international support is terrible. This is a huge reason to get Android on it. They've completely i
by angryasian 15y ago
just picked up one this weekend, some reasons are:
1. WebOS international support is terrible. This is a huge reason to get Android on it. They've completely ignored it.
2. The browser while good, the card system is slow when trying to use it as a tabbed browser. Opening a new link in a new card is quite slow. I don't care for app support because their browser is good, but if you are going to rely on the browser at least have a decent tabbed browser. Look at Dolphin browser on Android to see how a mobile browser should be done. Also another limitation seems to be I can't download files from the browser ex. dropbox.
3. Overall the system feels sluggish. Android has multitasking right, WebOS doesn't. After the Android team optimizes and overclocks this hardware, I imagine its going to be pretty good.
4. Lack of Customization, I can't even make a picture fullscreen wallpaper on the background. And since you can't place anything on the desktop/wall area.. a nice big picture would look good.
Overall its solid and feels polished, but WebOS is overall really lacking and compared to Honeycomb I don't see it as better. The best thing is flash support works great, and I can watch all the media I want from streaming flash sites. The biggest benefit is getting honeycomb/Ice cream sandwich on a solid tablet for $100.
*posted in another thread
Also check out http://www.touch-droid.com/ http://www.touch-droid.com/
- nazgulnarsil 15y agosystem feels sluggish because of logging. this is a 5 minute fix with some patches.
- cpeterso 15y agoWhere can I find the logging patches? I have a TouchPad and would like to test this. :)
- gregstoll 15y agoHere's a good thread with patches to apply: http://forums.precentral.net/hp-touchpad/287848-my-hp-touchpad-seems-running-so-fast.html http://forums.precentral.net/hp-touchpad/287848-my-hp-touchp...
- anonova 15y agoI'll provide some quick steps on how I made mine snappy. 1. [Install Preware with WebOS Quick Install][1] 2. In Preware on the Touchpad, a. install [UberKernel][2] (Kernel > Stable) b. install [Govnah][3] (Application > System Utilities) and choose the OnDemandTcl 1512 profile. This overclocks the device to 1.5 GHz (up from 1.2 GHz) and underclocks it to 192 MHz when idle (down from 500 Mhz). c. install the following patches i. Faster Card Animation HYPER Version (Patch > Mojo) ii. Increase Touch Sensitivity And Smoothness 10 (Patch > Misc) iii. Muffle System Logging (Patch > System; primarily what you're looking for if you don't want to use the custom kernel) iv. Remove Dropped Packet Logging (Patch > Misc) v. Unthrottle Download Manager (Patch > Misc) [1]: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware#Installing_Preware_with_WebOS_Quick_Install http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware#Inst... [2]: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:UberKernel http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:UberKernel [3]: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Govnah http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Govnah
- angryasian 15y agothanks for this , i just tried these and its a significant difference. What about OTA updates ? have you tried with these patches.
- anonova 15y agoIt works totally fine with 3.0.2 (the only OTA update as far as I know), but I can't give a comparison, sorry. I updated the same day I got the device so I'm not sure how 3.0 was.
- cpeterso 15y agoHas the overclocking and faster animations had a measurable affect on your battery life?
- anonova 15y agoI've only had the device for a couple of days now but haven't noticed any adverse effects. What prompted me to try it in the first place was [this ZDNet article][1], in which the author adds, "...my Skype video call to Jason Perlow was an hour long with video, and battery was down to 91 percent when ended." [1]: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/overclocking-the-hp-touchpad-cranks-up-the-speed/3581 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/overclocking-the-hp-to...