Palm WebOS is a new generation of operating system, which has unprecedented scalability through network clients. The Palm Web OS platform was developed by Jon Rubenstein, a former Apple executive, and Palm Pre is the first smartphone to use Web OS.
On the human-computer interface, Web OS is very friendly, which enhances the touch experience. In addition, strengthening the wireless interconnection function is also an important feature of the new system. In addition, it supports the unified search function of web content and data in mobile phones, and can handle multiple online tasks at the same time, which is also worth looking forward to.
Web OS is a new mobile phone system after Palm OS and BlackBerry OS, The Web OS interface is very simple. For example, Web OS has many applications, but usually only four applications are displayed on the screen: "phone, contact, email, calendar". When the user clicks the hide/show button at the lower right corner, other applications on the screen will be displayed, including SMS, web browser, camera, photos, music, video, notepad, task management Map, calculator and other applications. The Palm Pre features a large touch screen that allows users to easily scroll through the list of screens with their fingers.
In addition, Palm Pre also has a new Synergy synchronization system function, which can automatically manage users' multiple contact networks. Users only need to log into Google, Outlook and Facebook accounts, and Palm will separate and save the data of these networks. However, users can get instant messages from multiple services in a unified way, which is very user-friendly. Palm Pre's web browser is based on Webkit, which has a comfortable interface and supports multi tab browsing.
Palm Pre also has a Google Android like "pop up" notification system. If there is a new message when other software is running, it will automatically resize so that you can see the message content. The Dock toolbar of Palm Pre can also customize application shortcut launch items. In addition, Palm Pre also supports Microsoft's Exchange Enterprise Mail function.
In terms of application development, the advantage of the new system is that any developer familiar with CSS, HTML, XML and Javascript programming can start applications for the operating system without learning a new programming language. This can open up a large number of applications for Palm Pre developers, and Palm Pre will have more applications in the future.
Palm Mojo Application Framework
Mojo is convenient for developing Palm WebOS applications. It is a new application framework based on HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript standards. These standard web developers are already very familiar and favorite. WebOS applications can be directly installed and run on handheld devices to access a wider range of device servers.
Mojo brings you:
1) Guide, transfer, roll and other more intuitive building procedures
2) You can use the webos notification system to warn users not to interrupt
3) HTML5 is stored locally, allowing users to use data when they are offline. This is good news for developers. There are many ways to extract data from palmos data files in pdb format to your new webos application. In this way, more resources can be transferred from palmos to webos.
The Palm Mojo SDK
Based on the mojo application framework, the SDK provides simple code, files and development tools. Interactive data input based on Eclipse will also be included. You can choose tools to build webos applications. Currently, the mojo SDK is pre released internally, and will be available for free download when the test is mature.
The above introduction comes from Baidu Encyclopedia http://baike.baidu.com/view/2194419.html