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[Q] Web OS - Open Source

HP have just announced that their making WebOS Open Source, recon we'll ever see it now?

Hoping so! I have a little HP Veer that I mess around with and really like WebOS...

I hope so as well! I have a Touchpad, and I wouldn't mind seeing WebOS on my HD2 as well.

I too would love to see this. I had my doubts about WebOS until I got a TouchPad during the firesale. Now I really wish I had WebOS on my phone.
edit: i'd also like to mention that I'd be more than willing to donate to such a project!

I've been waiting for web os to appear on my hd2 for years! Can't wait!
Someone on xda or precentral must be capable. I did see it shown on an evo 3d.... finally some android competition!

Fergus278 said:
I've been waiting for web os to appear on my hd2 for years! Can't wait!
Someone on xda or precentral must be capable. I did see it shown on an evo 3d.... finally some android competition!
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Me too, it woulld be great

svet-am said:
I too would love to see this. I had my doubts about WebOS until I got a TouchPad during the firesale. Now I really wish I had WebOS on my phone.
edit: i'd also like to mention that I'd be more than willing to donate to such a project!
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X2 on the donate!

So, Web OS is open source...

But the question is, what do you think the chances of a port for the i9000 are?
I don't know too much when it comes to the really technical side of things, but i assume there's no real reason that the Galaxy S couldn't run the OS, now that it's open source... is there?
Would you want to use Web OS on your phone?
It certainly is gorgeous, and fun to play with, if nothing else.
DISCUSS!

Since cm7 and other aosp builds work so poorly with the I9000, I wouldn't hold my breath. Don't think for a minute though that someone won't try.
Might be fun to play around with on a weekend.
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WebOS is useless, but it still could be fun. Nobody will work on it, however - too much work for a dead OS.

hansonator said:
Since cm7 and other aosp builds work so poorly with the I9000, I wouldn't hold my breath. Don't think for a minute though that someone won't try.
Might be fun to play around with on a weekend.
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They don't work poorly, cm7 is beautiful.
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THE WEB could be a good OS, but only for tablets, I'm sorry that the HP has discontinued it. For mobile phones do not believe anyone would spend time on it.

hansonator said:
Since cm7 and other aosp builds work so poorly with the I9000, I wouldn't hold my breath. Don't think for a minute though that someone won't try.
Might be fun to play around with on a weekend.
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I don't know where you got that information that cm7 and other ports with cm7 base are poorly working on i9000, because they work actually much better than samsung roms... -.- And that is fact, hands down.
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Unrealwolf said:
WebOS is useless, but it still could be fun. Nobody will work on it, however - too much work for a dead OS.
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I don't think so. I had the Palm Pre 1 and still have the Pre 3. They're great and easy to use. WebOs has so much potential, it shouldn't be given up that easy. It's so innovative and full of interesting functions, I would love to see a port to the SGS!!
Some of it's benefits:
really fast!!
easy to use
a great solution for "multitasking" (some say it's a useless gimmick, but they should take a look how other OS's solved this problem (!...))
Opensource
To compare how good the software architecture of WebOs is, take a look at the Moto Droid (Milestone 1) and the Palm Pre. While the Droid is very laggy on Eclaire or even Froyo, the Palm Pre, with the same processor as the Droid, runs very very fast and smooth. Even with WebOs 2.1, which isn't really released for the Pre. There's a port of WebOs 2.1 for the Pre and even then it's still so smooth and fast. Flash contents on websites are running very fast, but when I take a look at my Droid using flash contents on websites...I'm able to count the frames...
I still belive in WebOs, because it'S, in my opinion, a great OS!!

I would flash WebOS onto my device, even when i cannot go back to Android.
Devs, go for it

Sounds great
I would flash it , but android ics is really good!
maybe because the designer of webOS has worked on designing ICS
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I had a Palm Pre for a while after my Desire died. I would not use it again, WebOS has quite a good homebrew community but Android offers thousands of apps more and is more intuitive in my opinion.

Is this topic still alive, will someone work to port Webos to Galaxy S i9000.
I have used webos and now I moved to android after my webos died.
I personally perfer webos over android, could someone let me know the status of this topic.

Here is a nice article about the subject :
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/hp-webos-open-source-begins-8212-what-next/6588
actually its a smart step from Hp to go Open source better than killing the WebOS , they think if WebOs given the amount to attention as the android having now the WebOS tablet may superpass Android tablet and maybe IOS tablet too !!
let's hope for the best

fahady said:
they think if WebOs given the amount to attention as the android having now the WebOS tablet may superpass Android tablet and maybe IOS tablet too !!
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What world are you living in? Who are "they"?
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I reckon we have about as much chance as getting a B2G port. That is, near zero.

Anybody able & interested in starting a port for our i9000?

HP to make WebOS open source

I'm sure everyone has read this. Thought I would share. I've played around on an HP Touchpad and I really like WebOS from what I've saw so far.
http://mobile.pcmag.com/device2/art.../www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397447,00.asp
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daoliverio said:
I'm sure everyone has read this. Thought I would share. I've played around on an HP Touchpad and I really like WebOS from what I've saw so far.
http://mobile.pcmag.com/device2/art.../www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397447,00.asp
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No one likes that crappy OS.....open sourced or not, is not going to matter!

It would be nice to have it integrated into android. Webos has some cool features that would look good on android. With it being open source i see people porting things over

I think that if some really good devs get their hands on the source code they might make it what it was intended to be all along. I think that webOS never experienced its full capacity because it didn't attract the pockets of major investors, but that can change.
Never underestimate anyone... or even more, Anything...

I hope its ported. Just another reason to feed my addiction to flashing roms haha
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so, a guy has cobbled together a pretty pre-pre-pre-alpha monstrosity and slapped it into the evo 3d.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2...r-htcs-evo-3d-a-proof-of-concept-for-the-time
i'm switching to verizon once the nexus is released, so my evo will turn into more of a toy/media device, and i think i'd really love to play around with webos on a huge evo screen.
am i alone on this one? or is anybody else out there plotting and scheming about how to shoehorn it into our previous evos?

I personally enjoy webos. If it only had the support that Android or ios has (apps wise) then I believe it can be a real competitor in the near future. Would be dope if the Evo gets a port
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Would be very interesting. There are quite a few very nice functional and visual to WebOS, be great to just get certain parts of it, I don't really want a full port(besides to play around with), but just some of its features and effects would be nice to integrate into a ROM. Def with ICS.

I personally love web os it has many great features but I'm confused when palm owned it I thought it was open source I remember hearing Ruby talk about how great that was. Why did HP close it in the first place. I mean I might be wrong so please if I am school me
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delman420 said:
I personally love web os it has many great features but I'm confused when palm owned it I thought it was open source I remember hearing Ruby talk about how great that was. Why did HP close it in the first place. I mean I might be wrong so please if I am school me
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I don't remember really. In my limited time using the touchpad (i refuse to buy one for myself since it's been dumped) I've loved it. It's really simple to use and has some cool features. I'd like to see it running on this huge EVO screen also!
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mazdarider23 said:
No one likes that crappy OS.....open sourced or not, is not going to matter!
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Wat? I'm going to venture a guess here that you've never used it. It's far from crappy. The failure was the devices it was placed on and their prices. WebOS wasn't the problem.

WebOS on atrix?

Apparently HP has made webOS open source, Is a port possible?

possible, most probably yes.
Will anyone do it, most probably not.
Seems a nice os to be honest, but id prefer meego over webos than

Webos is great. If it started as good hardware and made it open source it would have been huge. I have owned a palm pre ans I rly enyojed that phone just, the hardware was ****.
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IMO WebOS is the most comfortable mobileOS available. It looks great and does everything fast.
I would love to try some WebOS on my Atrix, I think it will be even better then android.
Its a shame for Palm that such a masterpiece didnt succeed better....

Moonshield said:
IMO WebOS is the most comfortable mobileOS available. It looks great and does everything fast.
I would love to try some WebOS on my Atrix, I think it will be even better then android.
Its a shame for Palm that such a masterpiece didnt succeed better....
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Webos is as smooth as ios. Maybe hp will realize they need better hardware
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WebOs on Mytouch4g???

So WebOS just went open source, and to be honest, it's a pretty nice looking OS, despite its lack of apps. Would anyone be willing to attempt a port of it to the MyTouch4g? Or even just some sort of add in for android? I know that it's been ported to the Evo 3d or something. I think it'd be really cool to have this option for android.
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Agreed. Would love to play around with the OS. +1.

would be EXTREMELY hard to port... :/
it's a whole other OS, not just a different UI with android running under the hood.

I agree. WebOS although Open Source is a complete different framework. How about iOS for Android?

ARey1212 said:
I agree. WebOS although Open Source is a complete different framework. How about iOS for Android?
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IOS is not only closed source, its closed source AND a completely different framework. Plus why would you want that on your phone? If you want that look get miui
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I would love to have webos on my MT4G once some gets android apps running on it. Developers got it booting on a EVO 4G but its a very basic port.

shall we put a price on its head? i would donate.
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I would love it if it happened. Unfortunately, it will take time for webOS's source to actually open up. It also would not likely be an easy port, although having both be linux-based should help somewhat...

Meh.. coming from a user that owns 2 touch pads believe me, its not worth it. The card system is nice, but that's about it.
I've had the tp since August and it sat on a shelf collecting dust til the alpha build of cm7 came out. And since that came out, I haven't booted into webos once(the tp cm7 is multi boot with cm7/webos)
Probably energy will be better spent developing an home replacement that looks like webos than trying to make our phones into a "palm" the os is just not as practical as an android unless you're just doing really basic stuff.
Just my opinion
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