I had android awhile back (donut), but budget issues forced me to clamp down on an expensive phone bill...

I moved to a dumb phone and Virgin Mobile's (then) $25 a month plan. The phone was an LG Rumor Touch which was pretty smart for proprietary OS and at least had Opera Mini and Google Maps...

The situation has turned around now and I am back in the market for a smart phone. I looked on-line quite a lot. I like things that aren't the norm. I really love the form factor and design of the Palm Pre 2 and all the things I'd read about webOS (aside from the thrashing HP took in the market place and the flip flop on support). This video review really sold me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu6-Udd66Y8

I got a factory unlocked GSM Palm Pre 2 off eBay and have been shopping carriers. I'm going with Straight Talk and their "bring your own phone" policy. My SIM card and $45/30 day unlimited everything fill up will be here tomorrow. When it gets here and I activate, reports are I can expect H+ speeds.

I've been playing with the webOS phone just about a week. The OS is smooth as silk, very intuitive and easy to master. It's very smart. I had the wifi fired up and looked at some stuff on-line. After I turned the wifi off I saw a notice icon - new e-mail. I had NO connection (no cell service, wifi off) and pressed the notification icon thinking it would just allow an acknowledgment and dismiss the notification. To my very pleased surprise I was able to read the entire e-mail even though I was in no way connected to the internet. That's smart and well thought out. I'm pretty sure no other OS does that.

I don't see any bloat in the UI. At 1 GHz the processor never seems to be straining even if I multitask a few things. When you close something - it's closed, NOT lurking in the background sucking up resources. LOLz and it is very satisfying to close things by flicking them off the screen. I'm not overly interested in hosting tons of useless apps - the ones I want/need are being found and tested. It's sort of a relief to be able to read through the app catalog(s) quickly and see what is available rather than have my eyeballs spinning from the endless scrolling lists of "who needs this?" crap.

The UI is easy to understand and customize to your own preferences. I've found working with webOS a pleasure rather than a chore. Trust me, I am persistent and poke away at things and get them to work. Stubborn I guess, and while that is satisfying in a "I conquered it" sort of way it really should not be a struggle for the average user to make their device behave the way they want and webOS hasn't made me feel any struggle yet.

Soon as I have time I'll be installing Preware and broadening the possibilities of the device. I'm really looking forward to it.

Maybe soon I'll love it so much I'll start a search and purchase hunt for a North America compatible Pre 3.

Ok ics is webos android the new chief of android design(i think its him) used to work on webos at palm ice cream sandwich multitasking ui is webos copied so is the new way to get rid of notifications (swiping them across) also many gestures are copied of webos.

While webos is now kind of dead i agree with a comment from xda tv it lives on in android.

Originally Posted by minipot

Ok ics is webos android the new chief of android design(i think its him) used to work on webos at palm ice cream sandwich multitasking ui is webos copied so is the new way to get rid of notifications (swiping them across) also many gestures are copied of webos.

While webos is now kind of dead i agree with a comment from xda tv it lives on in android.

For the love of god, split your sentence!

Please don't use gods name in vane.

And sorry it was sent from my galaxy player 4.0

Originally Posted by minipot

Please don't use gods name in vane.

And sorry it was sent from my galaxy player 4.0

Ah so it is the Galaxy Player 4's fault for no punctuation!

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Was having this discussion with my housemate last night and although he says he never really liked it (iPhone abuser) I can see why he would say that.

Holding the phone in your hand the thing did feel cheap and not massively solid. Screen size isn't brilliant, no flash player and lack of decent apps I was willing to concede. He never used it for an extended period of time and my single biggest praise has to be the multitasking of WebOS. Nothing I've used since then has come close to how it worked. I've currently got an HTC Sensation which is superior in almost every way except, the mutitasking.

It's a shame WebOS wasn't licensed out to other phone manufacturers so that there could be better hardware with one of the best phone OS out there.

I would be intrigued to see what an Android phone would be like using WebOS.

Andrewide kernt spall gud.

I miss my palm pre. I am I sprint, and was never able to upgrade to the pre 2 or 3. If I had been able to, I would probably still be on webos. The pre 1 was underpowered and incredibly slow and laggy. Even so, I often found stuff faster than my friends using android because the user interface was so much better.

I miss the cards. I miss the perfect notifications. I miss that I never had to redo stuff. Somehow, in android, I will try to navigate to an address, have it reminds me that gps is off and ask if I want to turn it on, and then I need to type in the address again. (i finally bought tasker last night, but haven't figured it our, yet.) oh, and I miss the vertical sliding keyboard.

Webos was simple and powerful. Od I could get a pre 3 on sprint today I would do it.

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Originally Posted by Puzzlegal

I miss my palm pre. I am I sprint, and was never able to upgrade to the pre 2 or 3. If I had been able to, I would probably still be on webos. The pre 1 was underpowered and incredibly slow and laggy. Even so, I often found stuff faster than my friends using android because the user interface was so much better.

I miss the cards. I miss the perfect notifications. I miss that I never had to redo stuff. Somehow, in android, I will try to navigate to an address, have it reminds me that gps is off and ask if I want to turn it on, and then I need to type in the address again. (i finally bought tasker last night, but haven't figured it our, yet.) oh, and I miss the vertical sliding keyboard.

Webos was simple and powerful. Od I could get a pre 3 on sprint today I would do it.

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Does it HAVE to be Sprint?

Lots of GSM Unlocked 2's and 3's out there. Straight Talk has "bring your own phone" on the $45/month unlimited everything.

Or look for a Sprint FrankenPre 2...

Originally Posted by RumoredNow

Does it HAVE to be Sprint?

Lots of GSM Unlocked 2's and 3's out there. Straight Talk has "bring your own phone" on the $45/month unlimited everything.

Or look for a Sprint FrankenPre 2...

Hmmm, there are unlocked 3's to be had? I might need to look into that. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Puzzlegal

Hmmm, there are unlocked 3's to be had? I might need to look into that. Thanks.

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