Well now that WebOS has been open-sourced, does anyone think that WebOS on the Captivate will actually happen? I know most of the devs' efforts are being spent on Ice Cream Sandwich, but I think WebOS on the Captivate would be pretty cool too. What do you guys think?
meh...the whole effort for the touchpad was to replace webOS with android cause its kinda poop. seems like a very big effort to get it ported to the captivate with the final payoff being...webOS on the captivate...yay?
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DJ_Steve is the man! Got that Honeycomb 3.1 running on my streak thanks to him and Hellzya! This really makes the device much sexier. The density issue is small for me since I don't have a problem reading small print, but it doesn't work for my dad at all.. luckily most web browsers support a zoom feature as that is the primary reason we have the tab. I have no questions... I'm a noob yes... but only to these boards. Not to rooting or anything like that. I love android... hell even jailbroke a few ipods. I'm just not a programmer or anything like that. If I were I wouldn't hesitate to offer help for all this beautiful android hacking.
keith.valdez said:
DJ_Steve is the man! Got that Honeycomb 3.1 running on my streak thanks to him and Hellzya! This really makes the device much sexier. The density issue is small for me since I don't have a problem reading small print, but it doesn't work for my dad at all.. luckily most web browsers support a zoom feature as that is the primary reason we have the tab. I have no questions... I'm a noob yes... but only to these boards. Not to rooting or anything like that. I love android... hell even jailbroke a few ipods. I'm just not a programmer or anything like that. If I were I wouldn't hesitate to offer help for all this beautiful android hacking.
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I have a HoneycomB theme running on my HD2 and love it. It's actually a Gingerbread/CM7 ROM and CM7 is pure excellence. Android and CM7 is heaven
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I have a HoneycomB theme running on my HD2 and love it. It's actually a Gingerbread/CM7 ROM and CM7 is pure excellence. Android and CM7 is heaven
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I have CM7 on my Optimus v. I LOVE THIS THING. It's made everything about this phone, especially the battery life, better. Rooting is fun. lol. GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK OOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUTTTTTTT!!!
HoneyComb is awesome!!!!
Yeah,honeycomb is awesome.Only problem is that Google decided to become [email protected]*ckers on the matter and don't release the damn source code so that it could be ported to phones.Yes,Ice Cream Sandwich will have Honeycomb's features and is near to be released,but is it the spirit of XDA to wait for official stuff?Nah,I don't think so.
Come on Google,Android is supposed to be open.I don't want to buy a tablet.Not yet at least,I don't like the Tegra 2(The Exynos on my Galaxy S II makes Tegra 2 devices look like cheap toys,that's why ).And when the Tegra 3 will be out,Ice Cream Sandwich will be out too.
tolis626 said:
Yeah,honeycomb is awesome.Only problem is that Google decided to become [email protected]*ckers on the matter and don't release the damn source code so that it could be ported to phones.Yes,Ice Cream Sandwich will have Honeycomb's features and is near to be released,but is it the spirit of XDA to wait for official stuff?Nah,I don't think so.
Come on Google,Android is supposed to be open.I don't want to buy a tablet.Not yet at least,I don't like the Tegra 2(The Exynos on my Galaxy S II makes Tegra 2 devices look like cheap toys,that's why ).And when the Tegra 3 will be out,Ice Cream Sandwich will be out too.
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Why wait? Have some HC goodness with a GB-CM7 HC themed ROM.
I love the way youtube looks on HC. I just wish more apps worked on it. I many of my favorite apps crash on me in HC, but they aren't things I can't live without. Besides, whatever doesn't run there typically does on the phone so I still get my apps one way or another. One day we will have android installed in our brains and I will have to root myself.
I know this is too early to ask and there are only speculations now.. but i am still asking this question if anyone know anything about this..
I hear that android icecream sandwich is coming with new interface and no h/w buttons support. Does it mean that Sensation cannot be updated with Android sandwich officially?
*insert n00b video linkage here for great justice*
But seriously, it's WAY too early to know anything about ICS.
Google-Android's Andy Rubin has said himself that they dont make "hard prerequisites" for manufacturers. Like the same thing people were saying about past versions of android. I believe this will be the same.
Everybody isn't ready for a button-less future. However it is a nice option for those who want it. Just like Android is now on Clamshell/Flip phones now and people said that couldn't be done. Just my opinion.
Webos lives on to the open source cummunity
lovenokia said:
Webos lives on to the open source cummunity
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Well, the WebOS forums will be much more active after today!
Sweet
So that makes webOS another free mobile phone OS for companies to choose, and puts it in much more direct competition with Android (or might in time). I won't be surprised to see a lot of webOS phones in a few months.
now i want the guys at xda to do some cool **** with webos and i want more activity over here for web os
there will be a lot more activity on the precdntral forums....good news cuz I actually like webos despite the overwhelming-ness of android
Problem is HP aren't manufacturing any more devices. That's the killer...
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Will it ever be possible to port webOS to an Android device?
So who's porting to Android devices?
There's already some really early talks on the direction to take on PreCentral. This is going to be awesome. If my Nexus S ever runs ICS and webOS, I will flip.
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There's already some really early talks on the direction to take on PreCentral. This is going to be awesome. If my Nexus S ever runs ICS and webOS, I will flip.
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^^^^ this!!!
Does webOS offer anything we can't get from ICS? If so, would it make sense to create some sort of hybrid of webOS and Android that has the best of both and is able to run apps for both?
no way guys there will be new hardware from hp but not smartphones only tablets
http://www.precentral.net/whitman-hp-will-make-new-webos-tablets-eventually-not-smartphones
http://mobile.theverge.com/2011/12/...r-htcs-evo-3d-a-proof-of-concept-for-the-time
it is starting to come together, and i mean the open source thing
lol! It took WebOS going open source for me to realize that a WebOS section existed on xda LOLOL. ill be visiting more. :ulls out and dusts off old att pre plus::
SGS2+WebOS, Yes please
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SGS2+WebOS, Yes please
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+100000000 i MISS webOS so friggin much!! having WebOS on my beastmode SGSII would so friggin awesome!!!
I think webOS on a galaxy tab 8.9 form factor would be my ideal device. Portable, thin, light and a great OS,
would love some webos on my htc sensation!
Have they pushed the code yet? I want to download it.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/09/hp-webos-to-live-on-through-open-source-hardware-lineup-still/
Hey guys,
From what I've read on the forums I think most of us nexus users used to have a Palm Pre running webOS. I just have a quick question for the awesome devs in this community.
Now that webOS has gone completely open source, do you guys thinks there is a way to port a rom for the NS4G or NS?
Thanks
... that is a possbility, but a utterly pointless direction for the Nexus S where Ice Cream Sandwich is far more superior than the state of webOS
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... that is a possbility, but a utterly pointless direction for the Nexus S where Ice Cream Sandwich is far more superior than the state of webOS
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Lots of things on WebOS run another than Android buy at this point it is pointless with ICS. Prior it would have been great but I would love the card implementation
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I cant wait to give it a try. Even if a lot of users see no point, it sounds like fun.
Yeah, just for fun would be great and with the speed of the nexus it would be a great dual boot option.
I really miss the cards and notifications on webos, even the ICS still don't compare on how they worked.
Once they realease the source code let's hope someone would help. I would gladly do it but i have no idea on how to compile Roms.
If someone has a 101 or a tutorial to read, would be great.
I'd like to see a webos style launcher with theme support come from this.
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Yes, Ice Cream Sandwich is great and all but that doesn't mean it isn't worth giving it a shot. Hell I miss WebOS like crazy.
And ironically I had came here to post if someone could try and port it. Nice to see I wasn't the only one thinking this.
Love the first comment
xda + WebOS = FTW
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Nuff said.
A port for us would be amazing
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Would be nice to see this
I would love to see this happen. WebOS is awesome
I have always liked WebOS. Since the first Pre came out I've always wanted to purchase a WebOS device but I knew Android and iOS have a much bigger audience and therefor end up being the better operating systems. But once I was finally able to buy my Touchpad shorly after the fire sale WebOS proved to be even better than I had ever expected. WebOS has always run perfectly smooth for me and I always use WebOS instead of Cyanogenmod other than the fact that Android has a much much larger App Market. I have no idea why WebOS started getting such a horrible reputation, but I'll stop my whining.
I'm hoping that there is someone out there that feels the same way that I do about WebOS and, now that WebOS is going to be open source, will try to DUAL BOOT WebOS and Android on regularly Android based devices. I know nothing about writing code for any platform and, as much as I would like to, I don't really have the time to even figure out where to start learning.
Does anyone know what it would take for it to be possible to run WebOS on a device like the Motorola Atrix?
Also interested in this.
I haven't done much low level dev, but would love to dive in on a project like this.
I also would love to see this happen now that WebOS is open source. I can see myself abandoning Android all together some day (years from now), since, honestly, WebOS seems better in many regards. It's just amazing..
I've been reading about Android UI lagginess issues from various Google Plus posts and it seems to me that ICS isn't going to be our savior in terms of smoothness improvements. I wish the Android team would put more effort into making Android as smooth as.. every competitior.. but it seems like they're not. UI smoothness is a huge factor for me. It's frustrating when the simplest of animations stutter or scrolling doesn't react as expected. It shouldn't be that way.
WebOS seems ultra polished. I can't wait.
webOS on the HTC XL... Mmmmmm!
If I could port it in my Arc S and if it's going to be stable I would never use android anymore...
Interesting idea. I'd definitely be interested in seeing how it would run on other devices. I had a palm pre for quite a while and, while I like the phone/OS, the hardware was just terribly constructed and was constantly in for repair.
I've had two pre pluses, first one dropped in a toilet, second one stated to get ether dreaded oreo effect. And the pre two all on Verizon. I absolutely loved it. But the horrible reputation comes from not the software but from the horrible hardware. I told myself constantly it wasn't do bad, but it was. And also from mismanagement both at palm and HP. When they announced the veer pre three and touchpad in February (holy hell a lot had happened this year) and said that any phone before the pre two will not get updated to webos 2.0, just pissed off the whole community. And that's after saying that three phones would. About the only thing HP did right was embracing the homebrew community.
All that being said, I would have my thunderbolt's screen replaced to get webos running on it. I honestly believe that it would turn most any phone into a world beater.
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