WebOS now available.
I just wonder if the device will include hp (high price) pricing...hehe
I’m very biased against WebOS. I got the Palm Pre Plus phone with WebOS and never imagined that it was possible to hate an OS as much as I hated that phone. I mean, it was quite literally enraging - as in to cause one want to destroy the phone. I paid a penalty to return the phone and go back to my origional phone (same carrier, just an older phone).
There has to be a compelling reason for a tablet to compete with the iPad. As a tablet is a highly mobile piece of equipment, the critical features are battery life, cost and developer support.
While the dual core is nice; the answers that are critical to the product are simply not there. What can the user expect in ‘real world’ terms of battery life? How does the display look? What applications are available?
For reference, in approximate numbers:
iOS apps ~500K
Android apps ~50K
WebOS apps ~1K
From what is available, the iPad competitors offer less application support, less memory, less features, shorter battery life, and yet somehow manage to cost more.
I’m just a silly engineer; but this doesn’t seem like a winning combination to me.
So I asked the guy at the store for a finger mouse and he looked at me like I was crazy so I told him I want a mouse on my finger and he said there is no such thing.
I told my wife I am designing a finger mouse and then she came home with small flat keyboard that has a pad you slide your finger on.
Hardware wise, it appears nice, but only a slight bump over the current iPad, which is already out of date and about to be replaced with a likely much higher spec successor. This thing is doomed against the iPad and higher-end Androids unless it’s dirt cheap, especially since it needs its own software ecosystem around WebOS.