When Choosing A New Phone, What’s A WebOS User To Do?

I’m a diehard webOS user. My TouchPad is my daily workhorse, and I love the thing. Until a few weeks ago, I was still using my Palm Pre+ (hacked to run on Sprint). However, a recent contract change added Sprint’s $10 data access fee. As much as I love my Pre, I am not not paying 4G rates to use a 3G device.

I’m presently out of contract and was planning on upgrading to whatever device that can run Open webOS. That’s looking less likely every day. The Verge broke down exactly what happened with HP/Palm and why the future is bleak for my favorite OS. Even with groups like the Phoenix Project planning to port Open webOS to modern hardware, I’m slowly losing hope that they’ll have anything to port.

Here's hoping they pick a less played out name at some point.

The question then is, where to go from here? I’ve been looking at three factors, OS, Hardware, and carrier. Today, I’ll share my thoughts on various mobile OSes with you all.  As these are somewhat long thoughts, there will be multiple pages.

So, who’s up first?