Posted by peanuthead47 on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 2:30 am EST
I was the first person in line at the Pre launch at Sprint so many months ago... I've owned a palm first gen, III, V and so on. I've installed 40 - 50 patches at a time. I love the homebrew community. Kudos to you all. I still love my overclocked, patched, replaced, freetethered, synergy Palm Pre minus. I've read all the haters on the Forums and disliked the Android and iOS ship jumpers. But... I must admit I got to play with my mother-in-laws Verizon LG "something" android free phone and my wifes friends new Apple iPhone and I must admit, I have phone envy now. I want to believe. I want HP to pull a miracle 2/9 but I just don't think they are going to catch up. I truly hope they do. If some magic happens on 2/9, i'll stay but if not and verizon gets the iPhone I must switch the entire family to the Apple ecosystem. I'm crossing my fingers...
Posted by sweet greggo on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 8:55 am EST
My wife and several friends have Evos and I have other friends with iPhones and the only "phone envy" I have is from the hardware. I'd like to have a few additional apps for sure (voice commands, aspx codecs) but for the most part I am enamored with webOS. I didn't think I was going to have to wait this long to upgrade my poor Sprint Pre but better late than never I guess. Whatever it takes to carry a webOS phone is fine with me.
Posted by Xanadu73 on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 9:56 am EST
The closest I've come to playing with Android is the little tablet thing my Son got from his Mom this Christmas. I've played with it (getting it connected to WiFi, Angry Birds installed, etc.). I'm less than impressed. The thing that annoyed me the most? No sane way to tell what's currently running! There's an option buried in the settings to see running tasks, but it certainly not obviously labeled as such, and no "normal" User would even go that far much less tap on something entitled "running system services".
iOS. iOS is even less intuitive. You can't have more than one thing running at a time. I did a test with a iOS fanboi: I sent him an email with a ramble about getting together "next week" and asked him to put it in his calendar. He had to *write it on a piece of paper* FIRST, because you cannot have your mail and your calendar open at the same time so you can't swap between the two. I showed him how easy this example is to do with webOS (and threw in having a few other things open - streaming from my Ampache "server", looking up something in a browser, etc, *all at the same time*. Even a Fanboi couldn't help himself from saying "OK... That's cool...".
My point? Nothing beats webOS. HPalm needs to get it right in the next thing they do. They can take all the time they need to do that! I don't want webOS to go *POOF*!
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I was the first person in line at the Pre launch at Sprint so many months ago... I've owned a palm first gen, III, V and so on. I've installed 40 - 50 patches at a time. I love the homebrew community. Kudos to you all. I still love my overclocked, patched, replaced, freetethered, synergy Palm Pre minus. I've read all the haters on the Forums and disliked the Android and iOS ship jumpers. But... I must admit I got to play with my mother-in-laws Verizon LG "something" android free phone and my wifes friends new Apple iPhone and I must admit, I have phone envy now. I want to believe. I want HP to pull a miracle 2/9 but I just don't think they are going to catch up. I truly hope they do. If some magic happens on 2/9, i'll stay but if not and verizon gets the iPhone I must switch the entire family to the Apple ecosystem. I'm crossing my fingers...
hang in there.....let the WebOs force be with you :)
HP has written that the faithful shall be rewarded greatly, the legendary webOS toaster is nigh brothers...lol.
My wife and several friends have Evos and I have other friends with iPhones and the only "phone envy" I have is from the hardware. I'd like to have a few additional apps for sure (voice commands, aspx codecs) but for the most part I am enamored with webOS. I didn't think I was going to have to wait this long to upgrade my poor Sprint Pre but better late than never I guess. Whatever it takes to carry a webOS phone is fine with me.
The closest I've come to playing with Android is the little tablet thing my Son got from his Mom this Christmas. I've played with it (getting it connected to WiFi, Angry Birds installed, etc.). I'm less than impressed. The thing that annoyed me the most? No sane way to tell what's currently running! There's an option buried in the settings to see running tasks, but it certainly not obviously labeled as such, and no "normal" User would even go that far much less tap on something entitled "running system services".
iOS. iOS is even less intuitive. You can't have more than one thing running at a time. I did a test with a iOS fanboi: I sent him an email with a ramble about getting together "next week" and asked him to put it in his calendar. He had to *write it on a piece of paper* FIRST, because you cannot have your mail and your calendar open at the same time so you can't swap between the two. I showed him how easy this example is to do with webOS (and threw in having a few other things open - streaming from my Ampache "server", looking up something in a browser, etc, *all at the same time*. Even a Fanboi couldn't help himself from saying "OK... That's cool...".
My point? Nothing beats webOS. HPalm needs to get it right in the next thing they do. They can take all the time they need to do that! I don't want webOS to go *POOF*!
M.