Just a quick reply since no one else has yet...
> I have used a palm III for email for a while and I was wondering if:
>
> 1) There is a Palm OS device on the market that has a more traditional
> wide display similar to some of the Windows CE units available?
All Palm devices at present use a 160x160 screen dimension - this is
pretty much hardwired into the OS at the moment.
> 2) If not, how hard would it be to design one (with a built in
> keyboard). In other words, would the OS accomodate a wider screen or
> would Palm have to update the OS?
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.
You might be able to get a licence to produce a custom version of PalmOS
3.x without the limit, but most/all software would not provide support for
the different screen sizes - the custom version would need to figure out
how to handle this major issue.
Hope that helps a bit...
John
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