>It seems that PalmOS is in transition in these months because there are
>so many versions coming out.
>Let's summarize them.
>
>Palm III 3.0
>Palm IIIx, V 3.1
>Palm VII 3.2
>Palm Vx 3.3
>?? 3.5
Those are correct, but you're forgetting the ones from non-Palm device
manufacturers: Handspring, IBM, Qualcomm, Symbol...
We're actually putting together a web page summarizing all of the various
shipping products and what's on each, because we're having trouble keeping
them all straight ourselves :-) This is also a major reason for doing 3.5
as a platform release which works on every device; it simplifies the story
tremendously and draws the proper distinction between the software and
hardware.
>Except IIIe and VII, all can flash to a new OS such as 3.3 and 3.5, am I
>correct?
The Palm IIIe device has no flash, that's correct, but the Palm VII devices
do... and again, some of the non-Palm device companies have flash, and some
don't. No announcements have been made yet by the device manufacturers as
to their support for flashing their devices.
> Also, is the Palm OS 3.3 Document finialize? I download
>palmos33reference.zip and find that the first page of the pdf says,
>'Preliminary'.
I don't know, but if there's something particular you want to ask, feel
free. The documentation is an ongoing thing, and will keep improving -
"final" doesn't have much importance for works like these which have to
cover moving targets like devices.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
