Palm has been quiet of late. The Treo 680 smartphone was released in
Jan 2007, the Treo 750V (which is actually a Windows mobile device
made by palm) this march. Other than that the rumor front has been
very quiet except for a possible mystery device which apparently is a
whole new market segment.
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12858
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12838
Par tof the reason is apparently palm is up for sale - or at least
considering it. I'm afraid the future for palm isn't looking that
bright since they haven't even committed to the new AccessOS (which
is the next gen linux based palm OS).
Meanwhile microsoft has gobbled up the market and despite having
pretty average battery life, poor stability and speed, are still
selling like hotcakes because there are so many devices to suit
multiple tastes.
As a guy who uses and sells/supports smartphones, I still find palmOS
best - but it is growing long in the teeth (rumors are that there are
no 3G palmOS phones because PalmOS is so old it can't support the 3G
stacks required) My use of a palm device is despite having access to
and trying just about every flavour of windows mobile device.
It will be a sad day when palm goes but I'm sticking to them until then.
If you want to follow palm rumors/news, recommend the following sites:
www.palm247.com
www.brighthand.com
treonauts.com
palminfocenter.com
Dave
On 12/03/2007, at 5:03 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote:
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:01:09 +0900
Subject: Palm Interest...
From: Ken Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all,
A little of topic, but not that far!
Recently Rod L. was asking for any information on new or pending
releases of
new Palm PDA devices. I didn't see any responses to Rod's query and
was
wondering what the results of this question were?
I currently use a Tungsten T, but am considering upgrading so this
info
would be very welcome.
Rod if you managed to find out anything during your research I
would greatly
appreciate the heads up.
Thanks in advance
Ken.
