New webOS 2.0 screenshots show Clock, Text Shortcuts 49
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:35 am EDT
The fine folks over at Engadget have received a fresh batch of webOS 2.0 emulator screenshots, and while there’s not a whole lot we haven’t seen before, there is some new hotness in there. For example, the new “Classic” clock theme is very hot (and evolved from the hidden “analog black” in the current versions of webOS). It also looks like we have a few more alarm preferences - including ascending alarm volume and customizable snooze duration.
There’s also our first glimpse inside Text Assist, and it’s just as we suspected. Firstly there’s the ability to have webOS “learn” words, which means there’s going to be more active spellchecking in place. There’s also the slightly more exciting (at least to this blogger) “shortcuts,” wherein you gain the ability to quickly generate longer and more complicated text snippets with just the entry of a few characters.
Source: Engadget
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I like that we'll be able to log into our YouTube accounts from the webOS app. Exactly how many features we'll have access to, we don't know, but it's certainly a welcome addition.
Lookin' good. But I still want to see a screen shot from the wireless setup that details improved enterprise connectivity. I want to be able to get online at work!!!
why aren't you able to get online at work?
My network, like so many others, uses PEAP encryption with which the Pre (advertising to the contrary) is not compatible.
I have to say the launcher pages shown for 2.0 are beyond terrible. The page name headers take up way too much space.
http://www.engadget.com/photos/webos-2-0-gets-fresh-round-of-screenshots...
I would definitely not agree with "beyond terrible." But as to the page names taking up too much space, two things:
1) There will be a patch for that.
2) What matters more is how they look at 960 x 640 on a 4? screen or 800 x 480 on a 3.7" screen.
it looks like about the same space is taken up. If you notice, the quick launch bar is absent when the launcher is up. So it looks just fine to me!! And like xlmtc said, I'm sure there will be a patch for that!
I should note that I don't use page titles so my icons start directly below the top bar. I don't use icon titles either and have them arranged in a 4X4 grid, with quicklaunch hidden while launcher pages are up.
My question is why in the world are there "arrow" buttons by the page name? Aren't we all supposed to be familiar with swiping sideways to go from one page to another?
They replace the little hashes in the bottom right of the current launcher. No arrow in one direction means you are at an end.
I like that they are working to bring things in that we have missed from Palm OS.
I miss my short cut snippets
nice
pretty awesome....!!! Just give me some flash/html5 and a front face camera n ill be happy as a lark
how about a rear facing screen?
rear and front camera
I've often wondered what exactly is a lark and if larks are really always happy...and dictionary.com offers this as it's 2nd definition:
any of various similar birds of other families, as the meadowlark and titlark.
I think it sounds much better to say "I'd be as happy as a titlark" -lol-
will someone else also elaborate on a saying I've heard more than once in my 36 years living in Texas: "Your about as worthless as tits on a borehog!!" I'm guessing a borehog either has no need for tits....or won't let anyone near them if they do have tits...?
Mike....lol
Now lets see how many stupid comments there will be about fixing the GPS, Flash and switching to android.
i just hope it's fast/smooth.. i mean iphone fast/smooth..
What's the fascinatio with an old fashioned clock style.
But any new news is good.
After two years of non official launch of WebOS devices in The Netherlands, I'll be happy to read that there will be new WebOS devices coming out real soon. And hopefully we can get some also in The Netherlands! Now I use an imported English Pre.
Two years?
I've gotten pretty good at spelling without help on the Pre. Doesn't hurt that I passed the 8th grade. In all honesty, spellcheck/prediction will be great, as there are still times where my keyboard won't register a key press and it spells god instead of good, or thoug instead of though. It'll be nice to have that stuff fixed automatically or at least pointed out onscreen. I like the analog clock, but I also like the current digital flip-tile clock on there now. I wish it would actually flip the tiles when the time changed instead of just changing the numbers. That would rock. Must say, I'm digging the new stuff coming to light.
Question: Will webOS 2.0 be able to backup my recent calls lists and text messages into the cloud (gmail or palm profile) or onto my computer as the iphone does. I hate how there is no (official) solution to backing up and restoring texts.
More importantly, How about an official way to backup application data? I don't want to get new hardware and have to start all over on all my games! I know, save/restore app is available in preware but there are people out there that haven't rooted their pre and don't install homebrew apps.
Those people are missing out on the real webOS experience.
-- Rod
I agree but it's kinda sad that you have to install patches,govnah, save/restore and other apps via preware to get the most potential out of webos.
In response to Rod's post above:
NO SHlT!!!!! Don't know why you would have a Pre and not patch it, theme it, and install homebrew on it. I love my Pre like I love my kids...it's a part of my family. Sometimes I wish I could patch my 14 yr old!
Mike
Thanks for the credit P|C.
See:
http://forums.precentral.net/future-palm-devices/263956-new-palm-phones-...
This just goes to show that P|C community is full of leeches. The person whom sent in these screen shots was not supposed to bypass the nondisclosure agreement.
go and cry somewhere else! thanx
fwiw, it's not so unusual for a company to "leak" its own NDA'd material. Leaks, be they leaks or "leaks", can generate attention and keep interest levels up while waiting for a device to be released.
MobileMe support? How long until Apple kills that, I wonder.
@Demetry14 why would you automatically blame the PC Community?!? The source link is from Engadget, so I don't see how you can blame PreCentral for this... Just cause it has to do with WebOS does NOT mean it's PreCentral's community that is at fault. #justSaying
@Demetry14 why would you automatically blame the PC Community?!? The source link is from Engadget, so I don't see how you can blame PreCentral for this... Just cause it has to do with WebOS does NOT mean it's PreCentral's community that is at fault. #justSaying
well since we aint getting FLASH, how about some new features like voice texting, voice dialing, and song recornition options with this update. I know they can do it. Come on we are getting way behing on these things.
Also one more thing. All this talk about hp making all these acquisitions to have a fully integrated product line out the box. Well where's our media player? Apple has quicktime and windows has windows media player. Where the hell is hp's media player? How about they make their next acquisition a media player so that we can use to sync our webos devices with.
I hope the new shortcut feature also allows for date and time inserts like the old PalmOS shortcut feature, and several third-party enhancements like shortcut5. Really miss shortcut5. It doesn't even run under Classic (makes it croak).
Just give me a way to turn off autocorrect please, most of us aren't illiterate and some of us would prefer the learning reinforcement that comes with typos.
no mention of the "add service" option in the software manager... What's that all about?
I just like that you can sync documents between QuickOffice and GoogleDocs.
Now I'll have absolutely no reason to have Flash to use the full functionality of my financial spreadsheet on GoogleDocs.
You think if palm had widgets and multiple home pages they would get sued by google? If not, then i wish they would do this. I like that feature about android but i like everything else about webos.
Ah...I do hope Sprint gets WebOS 2.0 by this year's end!
It looks like you can add your Facebook and Youtube accounts to the video app and view your personal videos on the move? Awesome.
can we get some developer please I might not be able to hold on long. WP7 is looking great
Cool. I was going to take my work that merges a personal autocorrect into the system one (works really well, btw) and make it into my first patch, but I guess it's not worth the effort with the spiffy new autocorrect coming down the pipe.
It'd be cooler if it supported regular expressions, though. Those not knowing how to do that, no harm, as it would match on words, but those who do.... you could do some powerful things with it.
If interested, here's what I did for autocorrect (you just need an init script that whatches the status of your own file for changes or something):
http://forums.precentral.net/general-webos-chat/258640-looking-auto-corr...
What if you really want to spell the word ill? Like feeling sickly--ill? Just use a different word? I love the short cuts we have, but...I'm just saying.
Use the back-arrow key and auto-correct reverts back to your original intended spelling.
I wonder if we'll be able to actually open PDFs on this one...