Me too. Loved that thing. I remember when I was able to truly multitask and switch applications seamlessly. It was great. I still feel like iOS and android don't switch between apps as smoothly as I was able to do on my pre.
Build a new OS, one with support for existing apps (granted, they'd have limited ability to interact with the modern Palm OS), and you get to keep existing customers.
OH how I miss Palm. Splashshopper is still a better shopping list app than anything I use today, I used to play Monopoly on my Treo, and watch movies from the SD card when I was traveling (but boy it used battery).
WebOS really was so hard ahead of its time. A card based interface, gesture-based navigation, unified and always online email and account systems. There were many things WebOS did that we take for granted now, yet they did it no less than 5 years before Android or iOS. Really it was just the Palm Pre's hardware (I had a Palm Pre Plus) that held it back. Some aspects of it were already a bit dated, even in 2010.
I had one. I really liked it but there were a couple of major downsides I remember. If you had to reboot it, it took many minutes to come back up. It also had the build quality of a sand castle. My wife and I both went through multiple devices in the couple of years we had them. It was my first smart phone.
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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
I loved my Palm Prē. So many things they innovated that we take for granted now.
Such a shame they weren't able to stick around long enough to properly compete.
Lizardking13@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Me too. Loved that thing. I remember when I was able to truly multitask and switch applications seamlessly. It was great. I still feel like iOS and android don't switch between apps as smoothly as I was able to do on my pre.
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2y
Only took android 15 years to get it sort of right. 2009 pre was ahead of its time.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y
Towards the end you could easily load custom kernels to try and make the os less laggy. Ahh those were the days ..
Lizardking13@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
I remember overclocking mine so that it was smooth lol. Was great.
3migo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Petition to bring back full qwerty portrait oriented keyboard sliders like this. I miss this hardware style.
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
Or the scroll wheel stuff, it looked really good when UIs are made for it.
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
I still have one in my basement somewhere, I miss the palm os, it was really awesome at the time
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Palm had the opportunity and missed it.
Build a new OS, one with support for existing apps (granted, they'd have limited ability to interact with the modern Palm OS), and you get to keep existing customers.
OH how I miss Palm. Splashshopper is still a better shopping list app than anything I use today, I used to play Monopoly on my Treo, and watch movies from the SD card when I was traveling (but boy it used battery).
Mango@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
They probably designed the stuff to be useful so they could sell phones instead of app makers who wanna extract extra money with their apps.
southernwolf@pawb.social · 12 pts · 2y
WebOS really was so hard ahead of its time. A card based interface, gesture-based navigation, unified and always online email and account systems. There were many things WebOS did that we take for granted now, yet they did it no less than 5 years before Android or iOS. Really it was just the Palm Pre's hardware (I had a Palm Pre Plus) that held it back. Some aspects of it were already a bit dated, even in 2010.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y
The pre 2 was the sweet version, but webos is all I ever wanted. 😭
lemming741@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
And the glass screen. Never forget what HP took from us.
thesocavault@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
I loved my BlackBerry
trag468@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I had one. I really liked it but there were a couple of major downsides I remember. If you had to reboot it, it took many minutes to come back up. It also had the build quality of a sand castle. My wife and I both went through multiple devices in the couple of years we had them. It was my first smart phone.
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I had a treo 650, a centro, and a tungsten before that and they worked shockingly well looking back on them.
Suoko@feddit.it · 3 pts · 2y
Whenever I read #facepalm I think of the pre