I hate whinging, but when I received notice from our users that our apps can't be installed on the T5, and read the previous posts on the change of memory locating on this model, it made me pretty pissed off. Here, Palm just changes the rules with no warnings. It also breaks the principle of backwards compatibility, which has always been one of the benefits and prides of the Palm OS. For us, it means we have to warn our customers against buying the T5. Is it also the case for Treo 650? I haven't had a device yet to test. Ironically, our databases, which were once optimized for the Palm OS, now works much quicker and better on a Windows Mobile device.
It wasn't supposed to break anything; the implementation that shipped on the T5 is a bit buggy, but palmOne and PalmSource are working on improving it and making it work much better with new software.
Next, I can't find documentation anywhere on how the file system on T5 works. On the plugged-in site? Try searching "Tungsten" for "SDK or sample code"; it yields 0 results. A search for "any" gives me the "Palm Desktop for T5", a mere 556 mb download. No hit or reference to a developer SDK download. I'd really appreciate if someone could overlook my whinging and point me to a usable T5 SDK so that I can try and fix this some way or other!
On the PluggedIn site, please look for a whitepaper called "NVFS White Paper" in the Developer Resources section. It was last updated in March 27th, 2005, and should show up if you search for "all" resources for "any" devices posted in the last "90" days.
-- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, palmOne, Inc. "Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/ Developer Forum Archives: http://news.palmos.com/read/all_forums/
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