> >All Palm devices at present use a 160x160 screen dimension - this is
> >pretty much hardwired into the OS at the moment.
>
> Not into the OS proper, but the apps, yes. (As an example, the Qualcomm
> pdQ phone has a larger screen addressable by the OS, but all the apps are
> still in the 160x160 area and don't "see" the rest of it.)
Not having seen the pdQ phone, I wasn't aware of this - I'm gonna have to
do some further investigation! Sounds like there's hope for the device
mentioned at the beginning of this thread.
On a related note, I'm pretty sure there was a discussion here last year
about ideas on backwardly supporting 160x160 apps on larger screen sizes -
in theory, at least.
> >Palm would have to update the OS - I believe it's been mentioned that
> >PalmOS 4.0 is going to remove the screen size limitations to allow PalmOS
> >to scale to different devices. But that's a long way off.
>
> Not really! You might notice that the GM 3.5 roms were built in mid
> December. We haven't been sitting around idle while the product teams were
> getting their devices to market... upcoming versions of the OS are very
> much underway.
Oops, not doubting the efficiency of the OS team :-) More that it would be
a while before OS 4.0 got into the hands of... oh, I'll drop out at this
point ;-)
Cheers for the clarification David!
John
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[ Linux in the office, AmigaOS in the home, PalmOS in the pocket ]
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