I'd be more impressed with figuring a way to get WebOS onto other devices.
I'd be more impressed with figuring a way to get WebOS onto other devices.
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.
But just to push your point a bit, what do you like so much about WebOS that you'd like it on other devices?
That's exactly what makes it special. And that's whats important to most of the buyers, I imagine.
Isn't that just it though?
>I'd be more impressed with figuring a way to get WebOS onto other devices.
One set of fingers is crossed for open source webOS. The other is for boot2gecko to replace it entirely. Web Intents can serve as Android intents and we can have the richness and ease of webOS and free cross-platform web apps.