I remember a post-conference session at the Palm Developer's Conference back in 2001 or 2002 (my memory fuzzes a bit that far back), where Hawkins showed the prototype converged phone/PDA, what became the clamshell first Treo (the Handspring phone). He predicted that wireless mobile devices would eventually rule, and as skeptical as I was of the claim, I gave it credence because I had seen over the previous few years just how well he understood and envisioned the future.
If Palm had not developed the Treo line, it would be out of business today and all converged devices would be running WM. An speaking of WM, have you seen how many vendors sell non-wireless consumer PDA devices with WM? I think only one major one is left: HP. So this is an industry trend, not an OS or single vendor issue. ____________________________________________ Lee Church www.mobitechsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: %%email.bounce%@ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jones Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:21 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Is the T3 still relevant? I have just seen this article on the Palm Info Center website which seems fairly depressing news for pure PDA Palm developers like myself in which it shows Palms revenue for the last quarter. http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9532/palm-q3-fy08-conference-call-highlights/ It shows that a staggering 81% of Palms revenue comes from smartphone area leaving only 19% for handhelds, and even this has dropped 39% from last quarter. With these kind of numbers it would appear that Palm are sticking with the smartphone market and not - as was my hope - going to be releasing an update for the aging (but I still love it!) Palm TX I code for. Just my two cents (or pence in my case!). Edward Jones Dr. S.L. Sanders wrote: > Is the T3 still relevant? > > A while ago (Jan. 25, '08), I posted "PalmPhotoDisplayImage() fails on T3 > device…", hoping for ideas for more experiments toward solving a problem of > all-white images in T3's landscape orientation. > > I formatted my posting as a complete (but minimal) test program that > demonstrates the failure, beginning with a comment describing the problem and > my efforts to solve it. > > I've seen the all-white landscape image problem only on T3 hardware, and only > when the display is in landscape orientation. Everything is fine in portrait > orientation. There is no problem on any simulator, whether T3sim or T5sim, > debug or release. The problem isn't in the T3's hardware, because it doesn't > occur when an older library (JpegLibPalm) is used. I don't have T5 hardware, > so I haven't tried it there. > > To add to my bafflement: Today (by accident), I discovered that > PalmPhotoDisplayImage can be forced to produce (silently) all-white images on > the T3 simulator -- regardless of display orientation -- simply by omitting > PhotoConvert.prc from the Autoload directory. This suggests that the > PalmPhotoDisplayImage may be not be using properly PhotoConvert when the T3 > hardware's display is in landscape orientation. (But if that's the case, why > wouldn't it fail the same way in portrait orientation?) > > I haven't yet received any response to my January 25 posting, which seems > unusual in this forum. Could it be that the T3 is no longer relevant? I'm > trying to program my product to run on T3 and newer devices. I use a T3 every > day, but maybe there's no longer a market for new programs that will run on > them... > > I'd be grateful for any response, either to my Jan. 25 posting or to this > one. It would help to know whether the all-white image in T3's landscape mode > is a known bug in PalmPhotoDisplayImage, or something that I should continue > trying to overcome. > > Thanks for your time and help. > Dr. S.L. Sanders 2008feb07(16:34EST) > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
