At this point, I'm pretty agnostic about OS's, but I will only pick an OS which has a future, which means WM, iPhone's, or BB's. PalmOS is in limbo at the moment, and as you say, there will be something new. I'd love to have an open-source OS, and probably Android is going to come the closest, but who knows. At this point there are a lot of choices. While I'm excited about new features become more standardized (GPS, Wifi, A2DP), I also think that we haven't found a really good form factor, keyboard and screen configuration. Screens are mostly still too small with too low resolution, and keyboards are mostly still not good enough for long amounts of typing (and fast typing). Believe it or not, the Tmobile Sidekick was still the best in regards to keyboard and just ease of use. Unfortunately, Tmobile crippled it by locking it down so that third-party apps would only trickle out on their own timeline and approval. I hear, though, that one of the designers of that OS is working on the new PalmOS, which is the most hopeful thing I've heard about that new OS for a long time!
Levi ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harold M. Goldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Treo 800w (and beyond) I don't think there will be an 800p. With all the big-named, big-ticket design folks jumping on board at Palm, I would expect the next non-WinMo Treo's to be Nova/OS II based devices, probably not even called Treo's, and probably with all of the feature sets of the current 800's and pending 850 (i.e., GPS, WiFi, 3G broadband, BT etc.) with a mini or micro USB connector but running the newest Palm OS. I would expect RAM to at least double and support for SDHC to be built in, and for a device that doesn't look Hopefully, the big plus will be an operating system which gets away from the architecture of Garnet: interrupt and notification driven with no consistent coordination between memory usage and application needs (necessitated by moving code from NVFS to RAM, in and out of cache's). We might even see the caching moved to the processor (that's how Intel does it) thereby bringing a whole lot more stability to the unit. In other words, we don't know what it looks like Traditionally, there have been leaks about Palm products a few months before they've actually hit shelves. Sites like Boy Genius and Engadget get them all the time. Not like Apple where you hardly ever get a leak unless Steve Jobs means for it to be so. Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
