Ben, I'll take this opportunity to correct your response.
Tam Hanna copied my original story about the Aceeca handhelds from my posting to the Palm Entrepreneur's Forum (PEF) mailing list, without my permission or attribution. Other news outlets copied from Hanna's posting. PIC posted an article quoting Hanna's posting, even though I sent an original copy to PIC, but when I asked them about it, they recognized their mistake and modified their story accordingly: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/6631/aceeca-readying-new-palm-os-garnet-handhelds/ I don't really care that Hanna copied what I wrote, but I do care enough to set the record straight here. The goal of my posting was to get the word out about the new Garnet-powered handhelds coming, so that is the important thing in my view. [Would I have posted someone else's story without attribution? Of course not.] Responding to Edward's questions about why this information doesn't come direct from Aceeca or why it doesn't show up on their website, that is definitely a valid question. It took me months of back and forth with the Aceeca CEO to get permission to release the information I did. To make a long story shorter, they originally announced the MEZ1500 with CE in the fall of 2007. Their hardware design had some problems, and so they took a lot of flak for announcing the product before it was ready. It's been a long road to get that product to market, and they've now swung the other way (in my opinion) in waiting too long before announcing that it is ready and that they have other new handhelds almost ready as well. I don't think you'll see an announcement about the new devices on the Aceeca website until the day it is added to their online store. Alex Topschij, Aceeca CEO, did in fact post a couple responses in the comments section of the (copied) story on Engadget, but you have to hunt for them pretty hard. Regarding your ALP question, I doubt you will see ALP offered on the Aceeca devices. One other exciting tidbit about PalmOS Garnet on the Aceeca MEZ1500 and PDA32: Aceeca has full OS source code and authorization from ACCESS to make whatever changes they see fit to improve the OS. Regards, -- David Thacker http://www.SatelliteForms.net The Premier RAD Tool for PalmOS & PocketPC "Benjamin" <> wrote in message news:188...@palm-dev-forum... > This was addressed earlier. From what I understand, Tam Hanna was the one > who released the information and Aceeca was embarrassed earlier by not > making their release dates and was reluctant to issue a press release > until they are solid on the date. > > At least that is the information I received from reading this forum. > > I also look forward to using this device and my customers might like it > too. Look forward to getting my hands on one of each unit to review. > > Benjamin. > > On 2/3/2010 1:49 AM, Edward Jones wrote: >> I was very interested when David Thacker made the announcement about the >> Aceeca Palm PDAs and went looking for more information and pictures to >> show the bosses but I was a little worried when going to Aceecas web >> site that they only show the MEZ1500 as running either Linux or Win CE? >> http://www.aceeca.com/home/mez_comparison_NEW-20090225.php >> >> The only product that is listed as running PalmOS is the grey scale >> MEZ1000 which is no good for me. Worse still, the Aceeca site makes no >> reference to the PDA32 which is the one I am most interested in... >> >> Can anyone (David?) confirm this? >> >> Regards >> >> Edward Jones >> > > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
