If you were paying close attention to webOS land over the weekend, you may have noticed some drama – namely that a user at xda-developers claimed to have gotten webOS up and running on a Sprint HTC Hero. Although the project itself still sounds feasible enough, it may have been run off the rails by what turned out to be a fake.
Several xda members have attempted the process themselves, and our man Jerry over at Android Central ended up bricking phones, sadly. Several days of hopefulness ended with a blurrycam photo that took a Pixi screenshot and slapped it on a Hero. Said Rod Whitby of WebOS Internals’ Twitter feed: “Looked at the so-called webOS "port" to HTC Hero. It’s an unmodified webOS rootfs running on an unmodified Android kernel. Doubt it works.” Indeed, the whole thread had to be shut down.
Of course, on top of the technical difficulties behind getting webOS up and running on different hardware, there are also legal issues. We can’t see Palm being all that cool with a third party distributing modified webOS ROM images. webOS is Palm’s intellectual property, after all, and redistributing it as sandix is doing is a blatant violation of copyright law, as the poster himself admits.
It’s all an object lesson in how hungry the world is for new and different hardware running webOS. If the possibility of even the staid Sprint Hero running webOS warms the blood, imagine how people will get when it finally arrives on something more impressive.
Source: xda-develpers; Thanks to windzilla for the tip!
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