WebOS on a tablet....huh...anyone got experience with it?
HP’s webOS tablet: why is it special?
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The ink on HP’s press release was hardly dry when speculation about a webOS tablet began; by the time of their investors call, it was inevitable that they’d be peppered with questions about the possibility of Palm’s elegant OS on more sizeable hardware. For their part, beyond a tidbit promising they were looking at smartphones, slates and potential netbooks, HP are playing things close to their chest. Still, we’ve not been shy before in putting forward our opinion that webOS would make for a mighty fine tablet platform, which raises the question: exactly what needs to be done before a webOS slate could come true?
I’ve been using WebOS on a Pre for the last six months. It’s hands down the most satisfying phone OS I’ve ever used. I couldn’t live without the multitasking at this point, and the gesture interface is very intuitive and easy to use. It’s a little sluggish out of the box, but they’ve made it insanely easy to overclock. I’ve been running it at 1.2ghz without a hiccup for the last month. Tons of homebrew support out there if that’s your thing, check out http://www.precentral.net
As for the Pre hardware- meh, I’ve had better. The screen is nice, but the keyboard is so-so and limited to portrait mode. The slide is cool looking but not well engineered. I’m ditching it the second Sprint gets a new WebOS device.
Touchstone charging is awesome, and another thing I can no longer live without. It’s rock solid in the car, and great for bedside alarm clock use.
Not a tablet, but I did try the Verizon WebOS phone.
I never knew it was possible to hate an inanimate object as much, as intensely and with as much passion as I hated that phone. Despite the fact that Verizon bundled FREE hotspot capabilies into the phone (a $25/month value) - I paid $50 to return that phone - only to discover that Verizon was incapable of retracting my Contacts from the WebOS phone, and put them into a different phone.
Things that I considered automatic in a regular phone, were not present in the WebOS phone. Things like Speeddial, voice dial, or even being able to scroll to the "M" in my contact list were not available. I had to crawl through my contact list, starting with 'A' for every phone call. I could not set a 'Favorite' or 'Speed Dial' number.
The WebOS phone was one of the biggest contributors of my decision to leave Verizon and get the AT&T iPhone 4. Love the phone!! Hate the excruiating AT&T coverage. I can't reliably get data coverage at International Airports (Minneapolis, Denver, Salt Lake, Dulles, Baltimore, ect). I would think that an airport would have plenty of antennaes - and have fantastic reception. Not so for AT&T.
I will be among the throng selling my iPhone 4, and using the proceeds to terminate my AT&T contract early - and getting a Verizon iPhone. The iPhone is fantastic!!
My experience with my WebOS Palm smartphone is exactly like the experience I had with Palm PDA’s. The software is outstanding, the hardware not so much. Since HP bought Palm I’m hoping the new hardware will be better, because I really like WebOS.