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by lhball 1473 days ago
To this day nobody does notifications as well as WebOS did.

IMO the hard-headed refusal to make a touch keyboard even optionally available also contributed to their demise.

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It was coming... the WindsorNot design was just a slab with no keyboard, IIRC. https://www.webosnation.com/windsornot-webos-slate-smartphon...
I picked up an HP Touchpad during the fire sale and remember being surprised by how good the keyboard was at the time compared to an ipad or android tablet -- especially given how those had been on the market so much longer.
In the phone land at least, TouchPad was a nice tablet
That dual-core 1.2/1.5GHz Scorpio was blazing fast and the 128-bit NEON unit kept them going quite a bit longer than the competing A8 systems.