Even by 2009 it worked fine -- I had a Palm Pre, and the experience of using webOS on that hardware was always responsive and pleasant. (Palm Inc. and the Pre both had lots of problems, but webOS wasn't one of them.)
In fact if I had the opportunity to buy a webOS device today I would ditch Android in a hot minute...
In fact if I had the opportunity to buy a webOS device today I would ditch Android in a hot minute...