• Linux Kernel is still based on 2.6.24 (on Prē Plus and Prē²) - no change since initial webOS release here
  • according to html5test.com, webOS 2.1.0 WebKit still performs (at 170 points) worse than WebKit in Android 2.3.2 (182 points—webOS 1.4.5 scored 132 points
  • while webOS uses open source components like gstreamer for multimedia support, it doesn't support free formats like Ogg Vorbis / Theora, WebM or FLAC.
  • as the SDK for webOS 2.1.0 was just released to the public today (previously a 2.x SDK had been available under NDA only), there are about 2000 applications in the german AppCatalog as of today Not true, forgot to activate paid apps in Preware—it's 6295 Apps in Germany today (3/20/2011)—not too bad!