Palm: webOS speed fix in the ‘immediate future’
Palm device owners have little to complain about when it comes to webOS; not after enduring Garnet and empty Access promises for so long. Still, that OS which relies so heavily upon web technologies like HTML 5, JavaScript, and CSS can be surprisingly sluggish when compared to other smartphone OSes. Now we have a hint as to why thanks to Palm’s Ben Galbraith and Dion Almae who made an interesting admission Tuesday related to the Pre’s UI latency compared to the iPhone 3GS — a phone based on the same ARM architecutre. According to the duo, “the path to the GPU didn’t exist” in webOS, something that will be solved in the “immediate future” using CSS transforms to modify visual elements thus freeing-up CPU cycles for other tasks. Hmm, immediate future sure sounds like a webOS update to accompany the Palm Pixi release on November 15th. [Via Everything Pre ] Filed under: Cellphones , Software Palm: webOS speed fix in the ‘immediate future’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments
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