thinking about getting out of winmo phone and getting it a newer smart phone. So what does android do the webOS does not?
Functional hardware. Enough said. Oh and the updates don't cripple the phone useless until they send out another update a couple days later like Palm. You'll see a lot of people in this particular forum have switched from Palm to Hero, myself included. I haven't had to call Sprint since switching phones, and I'm happy with my hero, even if webos now has cool expensive games.
Don't believe that post about it being pushed back. It has always been the first half of 2010, and people come to thing, oh, that means January... then February. It'll come when its ready and all the bugs are worked out. Reguardless:
There is no Palm update that can fix the Oreo effect of the Palm Pre, nor the lack of memory. I can't even begin to tell you of my frustrations with "Too Many Cards Open" when I only had 2 cards open. That can't be fixed with software, it was fixed with hardware, and verizon got it. The Pre Plus is too new to determine if they got to the bottom of the screen cracking, dead pixels, oreo effect slider (most annoying), and horrendous battery life, to the point where you can't go anywhere without a car charger. I had a dead battery by 5pm half the time and I didn't even use the phone! They lost ALL of my contacts. Every last one of them. That was the last straw. 3 months later, I got a call from Palm about my contacts and a possible fix, after my incident was pushed to Level 3 support. Did it fix the problem? I dunno, I already had my Hero. But the last time they called, I spent 2 hours on another phone with them only to tell them after the restore, I only had 3 numbers, 2 sprint and emergency services. Trust me, Palm is not worth the Hassle. The Hero multitasks just fine, if you know how to do so. Plenty of info on multi-tasking and I recently put out a few posts on proper ways to close programs. Its been very good to me. My stress has come way down, and I like that.
too many cards was fixed with the latest update from what I see. Saw a video of a guy testing the VZ one and with sprints got 13 open... He said his phone was hacked to heck too... I got 23 open at the sprint store the other day...
Still, do you want to go through 5 of them in the next 4 months? I did, biggest hassel ever. btw, its not true multi-tasking like everyone believes. The card has to be refreshed when it opens back up, negating the multi-tasking in the first place. I'm more than happy I bailed. 2.1 is nice, but 1.5 works just fine. Theres also functional roms out with 1.6 working, that allows more apps like the google maps navigation and google goggles.
I personally like the widgets android has to offer as well.
Android has 10 times the apps WebOS does. It has a lager variety of hardware as well. WebOS has a nicer way of mutitasking.