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I get home after a long day at work and turn on my new touch screen computer from HP, the webOS service boots up quickly and while I'm taking my keys out of my pocket a make a couple swipes and taps to load my favorite playlist in Koto Music player before setting my Pre 3 down on the touchstone on the desk.
I get a text message from my girlfriend that shows up on my computer screen and smartphone, but I decide to reply using my computer. Oh but hey, she's already logged into gtalk, so I tap the icon next to her name and send my reply using that IM service.
I get a phone call after she gets my reply, and now I'm talking to her right through my computer speakers and mic - just like I'm on Skype, but using my Verizon phone service. After I get off the phone with her I get a link sent to my neato! Friend account, which opens the browser immediately on my screen for quick reading. But hey, I don't want to read right now so I do a quick tap and it saves the page to my Notes app, which just so happens to sync with my Google Docs as well so I can pick it back up any time.
Enough with Koto music, though. My co-worker Brian sent me a link to a new Podcast that he wanted me to check out. Since it was saved on my phone at work, it's now saved on my computer as well. Podsnatcher loads after I tap the icon in the launcher and I start listening right where I left off earlier while I get the kitchen cleaned up.
Now I need to sit down and do some serious writing, so I minimize webOS on the screen and open Ommwriter to get some work done - listening to music in the background and getting the notification blink whenever I get a text that goes to my phone (and syncs to my computer). Yuck, I hate this song... Good thing I can tap next on my phone screen to shuffle through the next song on my computer like a controller.
Done writing and editing some photos in Adobe, now to get social. Girlfriend wanted dinner tonight, so I maximize webOS and tap a couple of times to open the calendar and create a new event with a reminder set for 30 minutes before hand so I'm not late. I need to go get ready, but as I walk into my room I get a phone call which I can see on my larger PC screen is from an important caller. Gotta take this - I pick up my phone to answer.
While I'm on the phone, it's a long conversation, that calendar alert I set earlier on my webOS desktop makes that familiar sound in my ear. I say goodbye, put the phone on the touchstone and go look for a new shirt. When I come back, though, my friend is video calling me on skype, which just so happens to be on my desktop webOS as well. I tap the big green answer button with my finger, say a few quick words about the dinner tonight, and then pick my phone off the touchstone to continue the skype conversation as I walk out the door.
If you think webOS in a virtual window will be lame, then I am afraid your sights are set farther beyond what we are capable of doing with current technology. Wait a few years and get back to us then with what you think. Personally, I am very excited to see what webOS will do on a computer like this. If it is anything like my scenario above, I'll be in love.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
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