Skype app for palm pixi plus#
I will put this down to the beta-ness of the build and more importantly the fact that the Pre Plus only has an OMAP 3430 down-clocked to 500Mhz. However, full-blown Flash videos were definitely choppy, with gesture controls (zoom, scroll etc.) not working. That being said, I could see the all-important banners and short clips without much trouble. This was because the SDK would be running on a full-fledged computer and the version of webOS 2.0 I had running on my Pre Plus was definitely not final. Because of this, I could not get a true representation of the performance of the Flash implementation in webOS 2.0. I made use of the beta webOS 2.0 SDK and a “doctored” version of webOS 2.0 on my Pre Plus. Now you might be shocked to see this listed way down here, almost towards the end of the article, but there is a reason for this.Īs I had mentioned earlier, we didn’t get a Pre 2 device for this article. Yes, after multiple “It’s coming soon” promises, this iteration of webOS finally adds Flash support.
Skype app for palm pixi update#
The final big update webOS 2.0 brings along with it is the inclusion of Flash 10.1 support. (Left)Voice dial, (Center) Favorites, (Right) dialer app now in blue This definitely fills a void in the webOS platform that has been open for far too long. This will certainly bring in a flurry of VOIP apps, with Skype confirming that it will release a version of its app for the webOS platform (although it looks as though it will be restricted to Verizon-only devices, at least initially). By virtue of this, they have opened up developer access to the device mic. where appropriate.Ī sorely missing feature in webOS that HP has finally added is voice dial and command. “im” will become “I’m”, “were” will be set to “we’re” etc. The user can now define mappings between shorthand words and how they’re supposed to be auto-corrected. The one nice touch I most definitely appreciate here is the ability for the user to define word shortcuts. Text Assist makes its (useful) debut on webOS 2.0
Dubbed “Text Assist”, it performs the usual gamut of auto-corrections and lets you enter a list of user defined words.
Whether this is because we’ll be seeing keyboard-less webOS devices in the future or because HP thought it would be a good idea to include it anyway, we finally have a spell-check in webOS. There are also a couple of other consumer-facing updates that are worth mentioning.Īlthough all webOS devices to date (all of two!) have had physical keyboards, spelling correction has been absent in webOS until now.
HP has also updated certain HTML 5 features supported by webOS and rolled in the popular node.js Javascript framework runtime into webOS 2.0, thereby letting developers come up with their own background services in Javascript, in addition to the applications themselves.
Skype app for palm pixi software#
While I cannot comment on the performance because of the non-final software I was running, the transition animations themselves appeared very smooth. Overall, the UI has been polished up in webOS 2.0.
0 kommentar(er)
