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Originally Posted by 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.
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They are not suppose to get update OS....all phones come to an end and you get new phones which are better. Android is open source so if you wanted you can get the updates just like windows mobile. If palm survives this, and makes future updates of webos they will cut palmpre out of the loop as well eventually. Since android is open source a manufacturer can control what they want to use and what they don't and optimize their phone or contribute if they wanted to
On that note, have you seen the processor on the Galaxy S(android phone)? it will run circles around even the best wp7 phone that comes out (mostly since snapdragon is the only allowed processor)
Not to mention Google is paying money for manufacturers to use Android so expect Android to grow a lot within the next few years.