Can EVO run webOS?

[joshuuuaa]

i also came from the pre to the evo and customizing the pre via homebrew app and patches are so much simpler then flashing roms and rooting/unlocking nand etc....

WebOS rocks and its the best UI i personally have ever used but there's a bit of lag compared to the evo and the snapdragon. Would love to have it run on hardware such as the evo.

Hopefully the next piece of hardware to come from HP/Palm is better/stronger/faster and WebOS 2.0 brings the performance upgrades as well as some additional features that are needed.

 

[Luce]

I am another Pre to EVO user. WebOS had (has?) so much potential but there was just poor execution over and over again. Poor hardware, bad ads, lack of support from Sprint, etc)

WebOS in my opinion much better at multi tasking than any other phone OS.

Would not be surprised if Android 3.0 had a card system like WebOS does.

 

[sj808]

i think all ex pre owners agree that Web OS is the best at multi tasking.




but I'm already accustomed to the long home screen press and installing Task OS (which is kinda like the card system in web os)



Lets just hope that Android 3.0 gets some major improvements since they now have the guy that basically built WebOS working on Android now.

 

[BigRick10]

I'm not quite sure that you have actually owned a WebOS device. You don't actually need to minimize an App to switch to another. With advanced gestures turned on, one full swipe left or right would change open applications.
I agree that WebOS is not where it needs to be at the moment, but I am definitely keeping an eye on it, and would gladly sell my Evo when better hardware and a more mature OS arrives. Both Android and iOS have years of development on WebOS. Just give it time.

So by giving WebOs time it will only get better? While that is true. Android and iOS will improve as well. Remember WebOs mastermind is now at Google and his presence could be noticed in gingerbread.

Sent from my HTC EVO using Tapatalk

 

[blacjac30]

I would have to agree with the other pre to evo owners. I REALLY miss webOS. If they do the next webOS device right...bye bye android. patching and things of that nature for webOS >>>>>>>flashing roms and nands and stuff.

Love my EVO. But the OS is not touching webOS. Sorry

 

[jcole01272]

Didn't almost all of us come from the Pre to the EVO?

Seriously, I loved the way WebOS multitasked, it was way more intutive than the Android long press home. I can see the argument for it being fewer clicks/keystrokes/whatever you want to all it, but (for me) the speed with which I could switch applications was faster, even with the additional motions I had to make. Part of this is just the UI curve, but the one area I really think Android could improve on is how it handles multitasking. Since a bunch of Palm people defected to Google, I think this is an area that will improve in the future.

Having said all that, I am loving the EVO, but it would be cool to see WebOS on this hardware, just to see what it could do if nothing else.

 

[deparson]

It would be amazing to see WebOS running on an Evo like phone. It is what the OS was really built to run on.

I hope HP will make it happen.

 

[bmoore]

Exactly.

Even with advanced gestures you are still making more motions to get where you want to go. Don't even get me started on the other quirks. Lets just say they released it incomplete and they suffered as a result. Losing widgets and having a ton of wasted space on the home screen is a huge sacrifice for cards which end up being a less efficient means to move around.

If you had ever owned a Pre/Pixi, you would know that the WebOS does posses this feature. While in card view, you can press outside the margin of any card, which takes you to a zoomed out view of all your open cards (all apps still visibly live), you can then click on a card of your choosing to bring it forward. You can also rearrange cards from this view.

 

[TrueDrooid]

I always thought that if the Reverse button(with a longpress) could be programmed to respond as the Pre's center button (or Gesture-up function) it could allow for some WebOS functionality?

 

[eagle63]

Hey guys, another Pre --> EVO user here. I share many of your opinions on webos and Android, and I still love webos and wish nothing but the best for it down the road. (and I might well end up with another webos device someday) However - and I feel dirty for saying this - but so far I think I like the Android method of multitasking better than webos. Here me out:

First, let's separate out the "task switching" part of multitasking with the actual technical implementation. The card-view concept in webos is a fantastic task-switcher; best out there bar none. The long-press in Android is alright, but needs to be improved and is definitely not as nice or elegant as webos.

BUT, what I don't like about the card-view concept is that it forces the user to be responsible for managing memory. It might not seem like you're managing memory since you're dealing with a high-level abstraction (cards), but in a sense you are. If you keep opening cards, eventually you need to close them for 2 possible reasons: either you've run out of memory (the dreaded "Too many cards" error we all know and love), OR the performance has degraded to the point that you need to start closing apps.

Contrast that with Android, where you don't need to close apps and you don't know (or care) which apps are running and which got closed by the OS to preserve memory. In my experience with the Evo, overall performance stays dramatically
consistent, even after weeks of uptime.

Android takes more of an "active" memory management role, whereas webos takes a passive one and requires the user to handle it. Now, making users close cards is not exactly a difficult or complicated job, so ultimately I don't think it's
a huge deal or anything, but after having used both now I must admit that I like not having to worry about how many cards I have open - I just run stuff and let Android deal with cleaning up behind me

 

[saywut]

Techniclly....Drivers can be made "virtual" someone just has to 'build' them.

 

[tx_dbs_tx]

If you think the original question was silly then I have another one that's even silver... how about putting Windows mobile on the HTC. Evo? Lol is that possible? Actually yes it is by then that would be more trouble than its worth because you would essentially have a HTC hd2 with touch keys instead of hard buttons.

To the original poster, expect new and much better webos phones in the future because HP is behind palm since the recent acquisition. It has my interest.

 

[Mark_in_Tulsa]

If you think the original question was silly then I have another one that's even silver... how about putting Windows mobile on the HTC. Evo? Lol is that possible? Actually yes it is by then that would be more trouble than its worth because you would essentially have a HTC hd2 with touch keys instead of hard buttons.

To the original poster, expect new and much better webos phones in the future because HP is behind palm since the recent acquisition. It has my interest.

Yes because HP is known for their quality and ground breaking technology.

 

[kd0axs]

If you think the original question was silly then I have another one that's even silver... how about putting Windows mobile on the HTC. Evo? Lol is that possible? Actually yes it is by then that would be more trouble than its worth because you would essentially have a HTC hd2 with touch keys instead of hard buttons.

To the original poster, expect new and much better webos phones in the future because HP is behind palm since the recent acquisition. It has my interest.

I don't know if that can be done, but some WinMo phones have been hacked to dual boot Android.

 

[RodPre]

Not sure how many here have used the WebOS based Palm Pre. I used it for over a year before reluctantly switching to the HTC EVO for the shear power and screen. True, the Pre is a little underpowered, but it ran Need for Speed and other 3D games surprising well - and I still miss the elegance of the UI - the card concept is the most intuitive UI I have ever used- and swiping gestrues work consistently with all apps (I have found myself doing them on EVO because it's so much faster, but of course they don't work). For instance, if you see an email you want to delete you simply swipe it right off the screen and confirm to delete! Intuitive and fun.. but you probably have to experience it to know what I'm talking about. Android feels clunky in comparison. So I too would love to see someone port the WebOS to the EVO if at all possible. I saw a thread on precentral.net where someone ported it to an intel based laptop - but there were some display issues. In the mean time I keep my old Pre on the touchstone dock and from time to time I pick it up for a little fun. HP has acquired something powerful - let's see if they can come out with products that truly take advantage of it and also see if they market it well - being the two areas Palm missed on

 

[franky_402]

Ok so I didn't even think of it til just now when I was reading three forum and got a text, I had to long press home, click on my messaging, reply then long press home and bring up the browser again. On webos all I had to do if I got a text wa s full swipe either left it right start typing my message hit enter and swype back again to the browser, easily 10 times faster. I do like the auto memory management however in android but webos was really amazing with multi taking

 

[lvav06#AC]

I agree with what most people say here, webOS is great at multitasking, and yes the hard ware could have been better. I think in a way palm was testing the waters, same way i heard that verizon FIOS is just a test project for VZ. (notice how in some areas it don't grow or not fast enough)
And i also agree that i want to see the evo run webOS, I would pay for that if the final result was very well executed, and i really wouldn't want a dual boot, i want a compete reflash so to speak.
I have not messed with any andriod Os extensively, but i feel something is lacking when I played with the Evo at the sprint store.
and i find it funny that iphone users "love" the multitasking and they make a face when i tell them my phone has been doing that and other stuff for a year and how it took apple 4 years to get to that point.
in a way i prefer function over form, guess that is another reason i drive a Subaru vs a Honda or any other manufacture, yes Hondas are good cars, but the build quality of a Subaru is very well.
I have way more positive things that are facts for Subaru than i can for a lot of car manufactures.
So the Pre maybe smallish for most, the refubs are crappy, but the OS is very nice. I can't wait for webOS 2.0, and my true hope is hat 2.0 will be on a 4g device but still have other 3g devices as an option for those who want to wait for 4g to expand more.
plus from what i hear patching a webOS device is a lot more easy that rooting or hacking an Evo. I have my Pre with patches and F105 Thunderchief , so it runs at 1.005 GHz, tried the sr71 Blackbird ( crashed).

 

[garsha420]

Why?

Um idk maybe because webos blows IOS and Android out of the water. Just got an Android Evo Shift, and I hate it! How many features are gonna be stolen from Palm and marketed as their own ideas. Baffling that people are so ignorant to technology, but feign like they know what they're talking about. Only reason I got this piece of doo doo was because Sprint is slacking on webos even though they had the first one on release

 

[joe1blue]

I'm just so sick of android and the lag of the evo it the program feels like its still in beta the tex messages is the worst ever on the evo you, whenever you hit one conversion it takes you to a whole other wrong one it also takes almost 40 sec to open a tex message or open a picture someone sent me web OS had none of these problems it just ran so smooth the hardware was the blame .

 

[davisondan]

I'm an ex Pre user also, liked the OS a lot, the hard ware left a lot to be desired though. Just as I like to try different roms to find one that fits me best, I think having the WebOs running on an Evo would definately be a good option to try. If it could be properly configured to run should really scream on the Evo in my opinion.