[richc3]

webOS is incredibly fast, particularly with the overclock hack.
I'd really recommend you try a Verizon Palm Pre Plus at a local kiosk and just watch how the thing zips, if you hack that it can be considerably faster.

Android is basically the 2nd coming of Windows Mobile, they're incredibly lax with their hardware requirements and have friggan ads all over their software. Take a look at old android devices that can't update OS, or wait an incredibly long time. Also, fire up the app store and let's see how many useful apps you find. There is no way Android can keep up its full set of steam for too long without either making multiple operating systems or simply leaving phones left behind while they set stricter hardware requirements (ala WM7).

webOS itself has a lot more apps than people think, the app store is purely quality apps that developers have to pay to get on. There are numerous palm fan sites which have apps you can download and if you add that to the palm app store there is actually quite a large number of apps in general.

Beyond that, webOS is setup to allow iPhone apps to be ported over. Once that starts coming into fruition it'll be even better.

Like I said though, simply try the device. The keyboard is the most questionable item on the device, but everything else is solid. If you really want, hold out for a new Palm device later this year, it will likely be a larger screen model.