webOS’ on-screen keyboard gets taken for a test drive

By on Dec 6, 2010 at 5:40 PM
Software December 6, 2010

The gang over at PreCentral.net have done some tinkering with a Palm Pre 2 running webOS 2.0 and have managed to gain access to the mobile operating systems on-screen keyboard. While the performance of the keyboard was described as “a little buggy,” it does give us hope that HP is working on a full-touchscreen device that was designed for the company’s latest mobile OS iteration. If you’re interested to see what the keyboard looks like in action, hit the jump… a video is waiting for you.

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  • Anonymous

    Looks promising but the real questions is…..WHERE THE HELL IS MY HP/PALM PHONE WITH EVO + IPHONE 4 SPECS (EVO’s screen though), I WANT WEBOS ON A GOOD PHONE DAMN IT….mini rage xD

  • justin

    Maybe one day they will put webOS on a touchscreen with a decent size screen

  • serpentor

    I hope they’re smart enough to also include Swype.

  • Anonymous

    If HP doesn’t provide good hardware specs with their new WebOs their project will be DOA.

    • Mgl323

      Maybe HP should sell Palm/webOS to Apple. Maybe Apple will do something with the software..

  • Badchad

    Awesome.

    They took a second generation device that had a hard keyboard too small to use. Then they accessed an on screen keyboard on a screen that’s too small for it to be useable.

    • http://www.twitter.com/hokes Brendan

      way to miss the point.
      this discovery isn`t really relevant to the pre or pre2 per-se, but means that webOS2.0 is designed to be future-ready and compliant with new form factors (read: touch-screen only and larger screens)
      very very good news for webOS.

      • Badchad

        The Pre was announced in 2009. It has sucked for two years running, and continues to be a dismal piece of crap.

        Designing something to be “future ready” after two years of complete failure is indeed, missing the point.

  • Mgl323

    Maybe those rumors of touch only smartphones by HP/Palm will be true.

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