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I still enjoy using WebOS more than iOS. The card system is a joy to use. Palm created a great OS but handled hardware and marketing with almost criminal neglig
by bruceb 14y ago
I still enjoy using WebOS more than iOS. The card system is a joy to use. Palm created a great OS but handled hardware and marketing with almost criminal negligence. Hp did the same.
If I could get the top five apps in every category and decent hardware I would switch back to WebOS.
- lps41 14y agoI feel exactly the same way. It's such a major disappointment that it wasn't more widely adopted, because WebOS is still to this day such a pleasure of an OS to use, and very intuitive feeling.
- mmastrac 14y agoI agree on the marketing, but disagree strongly with your statement that they mishandled the hardware. I've got nearly a half-dozen WebOS devices kicking around (Pre 1-3, Pixi, Veer) that I would prefer to use over my Galaxy Nexus if they had Android on it. I would say that the hardware was actually the _best_ part of the WebOS ecosystem.
- newman314 14y agoiPad Mini hw >> Touchpad hw. Now if I could have webOS and decent apps on iPad Mini hardware...
- uxp100 14y agoMe and four friends all got Pre 1s or Pixi Pluses, and every one of our phones broke the same way, the non-speakerphone microphone stopped working, so I had to make all my calls on speaker. Before that the rubberized back came off all three of my colored back pieces for the Pixi.
- newman314 14y agoThe first couple of iterations weren't very good. The Pre3 otoh is pretty good.
- bruceb 14y agoI will clarify that I liked the Pre but the hardware always came out 6 months too late. The Touchpad was decent hardware but it was up against the iPad 2. The 16gig version was $499 yet the camera function didn't even work correctly when it was released! It should have been released at $399 at the most. Who at HP made this decision? Did they really think they could justify $499 for hardware that had fewer apps and 1 camera instead of 2 and was thicker than the iPad2?!
- mmastrac 14y agoYeah, I can't disagree with any of what you've said here. The TouchPad was one device in the Palm family I never picked up, since the writing was on the wall for WebOS then.
- danboarder 14y agoFor what it's worth, there is an active community developing Android for HP Touchpad. The Touchpad had decent hardware to begin with and can be overclocked and more. I have a 32gb Touchpad running Jelly Bean and it's as smooth as butter, and the latest netflix app plays great, skype, etc all work fine in Android. If you have a Touchpad check out the XDA Developers forum here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1247 http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1247 [edited to add link]
- zwieback 14y agoLike many HPers I got a Touchpad in the fire sale and haven't converted it to Android yet because I heard the camera wasn't working. Apparently that's fixed now and Netflix works too? Might be time for me to convert.
- yareally 14y agoCamera works in CM9 and CM10. I still use 9 because I'm not desperate for Android 4.1 (already have 4.2 on my Gnexus and Nexus 7). The other place to look for Android on the Touchpad is rootzwiki (http://rootzwiki.com/forum/217-hp-touchpad/ http://rootzwiki.com/forum/217-hp-touchpad/). Either forum will get you what you need most likely though, but I'm an admin on rootzwiki for what it's worth.
- nashequilibrium 14y agoI bought the 32gig TouchPad during the firesale and i use it everyday with the following apps, email, calendar, Zite, twitter, reddit, quickoffice to access Google Drive and sometimes i transfer video tutorials onto it to watch later. I have really grown to like it but i will port it to android once it lags behind in software updates.