WebOS on the Touch?

[derek5L]

Does anyone know if this is possible? I currently have both phones and am not satisfied with build quality of the Pre. Love the quality of my HTC Touch and think this phone would be cool as hell rocking WebOS.

[tacomanmcjab]

We've got android. Why can't we have Web os?

[zenulator]

If the binaries are compatible then it would be easy to port it. But chances are most of webOS is compiled and tweaked to be hardware specific and the best parts of webOS are closed source. I have the root file system image for the pre so maybe later i'll pull some binaries out of /bin and see if they will run in
Android.

[tacomanmcjab]

sounds promising.....

[FutureSEAL16]

Any updates on this yet?

[derek5L]

Yeah, the reason I ask is that I recently got a pre, but I miss the Touch hardware. I feel like I will break this phone with very little wear and tear. The Pre sucks as a phone, but the WebOS rocks. Since it is Linux based, you would think it could be done. Any help would be awesome.

[zenulator]

I managed to run some of the binaries from webos in the terminal on android.

[derek5L]

nice, what does that mean in regular terms?

[zenulator]

I guess is someone had enough time to build a minimal linux system for the vogue and boot into or chroot into webos root file system they could run some stuff but most likely not the gui. I'll try some more stuff later on.

[bmnaccounts]

Any updates.......

This phone would be cool as FUCK with WEB OS.
Some1 has to do this.:cool:

[Moose8106]

Does anyone know if this is possible? I currently have both phones and am not satisfied with build quality of the Pre. Love the quality of my HTC Touch and think this phone would be cool as hell rocking WebOS.

I wish but the touch doesn't have near the capabilities of the pre (I mean internal hardware wise) and we're still having a crap load of problems porting android to the vogue and that's open source!!! WebOS isn't (90% sure on this) so it'll be much harder

[craig0r]

I wish but the touch doesn't have near the capabilities of the pre (I mean internal hardware wise) and we're still having a crap load of problems porting android to the vogue and that's open source!!! WebOS isn't (90% sure on this) so it'll be much harder

Right. WebOS is like OSX. It runs on top of an open-source base system (Linux for WebOS, BSD for OSX) but the user interface is closed-source, which would make porting it very very difficult, especially since the Palm Pre uses a very different processor than the Vogue, from what I understand.

[derekwilkinson]

I think the interface for the Hero is better anyway ;)