In the beginning, there was a Treo XXX. No, not a hardcore Treo. It was a prototype Treo 800. Palm employees called it Zeppelin (CDMA) and Floyd (GSM) or Zepfloyd for short. It was the canvas for a pre-webOS operating system with a UI dubbed Prima. Prima wasn’t good and was scrapped for Luna and webOS was born.
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Rare webOS Devices, Episode 1
I received a bunch of cool stuff. Here's a Sprint Pre with a clear bezel running Nova Main based on #webOS 2.x pic.twitter.com/6v2xMwBQ1X
— Alan Morford (@alan_morford) June 12, 2016
I recently got my grubby little hands on some rare webOS stuff. In a few episodes or so, I’ll chronicle what I received. Let’s start!
Rare webOS goodies spotted in drool-worthy photo
Former HP/Palm devrel member, Lisa Brewster (@Adora), posted this awesome webOS collection photo on her Twitter yesterday in commemoration of webOS’ 7th birthday. Several things in this photo are eye-catching to say the least! Go ahead…click the picture!
Ok, are you seeing what I’m seeing? Let’s start with the most rare and work from there.
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Instagrio hit by Instagram’s API Change, Now in ‘Sandbox Mode’
I don’t like reporting on broken webOS apps. Nope. But here’s another. This time ‘Instagrio‘, the Instagram view-only app, has been disabled by Instagram themselves. The jerks!
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The webOS browser is aging but whose fault is it?
I’ve read it before and said it myself. The webOS browser isn’t what it used to be. But what’s to blame? Is it old webOS browser programming? Outdated webkit? Slower processors? Smaller amounts of RAM? Well, it could be all of that but modern web practices aren’t helping things. And that’s a problem for web-OS.
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