The TouchPad's multitasking felt quite liberating it made using several apps on a tablet much easier. I was able to listen to an Internet radio station while the TouchPad was downloading an ebook, showing my calendar and displaying a Web page. For instance, when I was looking at the calendar view as the center card with CNN on the half card to the right and BBC as the half card to the left, I couldn't see an ebook downloading in the background.īecause the TouchPad multitasks, the programs remain active in a nice touch, some data will be visible on the home-screen card. On the other hand, I found it to be a bit tedious scrolling through a slew of apps to find the right one.Īnd you can't see all of the secondary cards. While you can't see as many icons at a glance as with Android or iOS, it's more visually appealing. It's like a breath of fresh air for tablet users tired of squinting at small icons. The TouchPad's webOS interface makes it easy to deal with multitasked apps. If you want to close the app, you can swipe toward the top to dismiss it. You swipe across the row to get to the 'card' you want and tap on it to bring it to full screen. Apps are represented instead by a row of large rectangular icons - you find them on a traditional app screen called the Launcher, which is divided up with tabs for Apps, Downloads, Favorites and Settings.Īctive apps are represented on the home page by a row of large rectangular icons (looking a bit like playing cards) that can be arranged in a horizontal row (where you see one full card and a half card on either side) or stacked. Unlike iOS and Android, it doesn't offer users small icons arranged in a grid on the Home page. Based on a Linux kernel, Palm's webOS 3.0 is finger-friendly.

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