Looking for a smartphone for Mom and Dad. They're very cheap, and in my searches I came across webOS. I remember it from years back when it was making news. From reading around, I'll probably try to buy them a Pre 2. And I like the Verizon network and their Page Plus Wireless reseller, so I have to make sure I get a phone that works with them. Or maybe the Verizon network through Straight Talk, but I don't think most Verizon phones work with Straight Talk, only the ones Straight Talk sells on their web site.
Regardless of the possibilities in the future for this platform, I'm interested in what it can do today. Here's a list of things I'm very interested in:
1.) Google Voice - listening to voice mail, viewing call logs, and reading/sending text messages (and possibly even SMS's). I think there 's an app called SynerGV for this, but I don't know how much of this stuff that it does.
2.) Google Maps - I saw there's an app for this that a guy from Czechoslavakia wrote! (You guys better be donating to him!) This app doesn't do any navigation with turn-by-turn directions does it? Is there any GPS integration in this app at all?
3.) Google Contacts - have to be able to view my Google contacts and click on a button to call them. being able to edit them would be extra nice, almost a necessity.
4.) Google Calendar - nice to be able to view days I've marked with events
5.) GMail - have to be able to access GMail via IMAP. They check email from multiple computers, so it can't be POP.
Man this is weird, I had no idea till just now how dependent we are upon Google... (and don't pay for any of it)
6.) Coupon apps like Groupon or Amazon Local, Mom loves coupons...
7.) Facebook would be [i]really[i]nice
8.) Twitter would be nice
9.) Weather app - just a basic one of these that shows somebody's forecast for the upcoming week and month
Anyway, I've spent a couple of hours and have barely gotten anywhere with my webOS research, would really appreciate it if you guys could help me out...