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Palm OS Is Laid To Rest

by sansandl on 13/02/09 at 6:02 pm

We gather here today to pay respects to the first handheld operating system to win the hearts of the mobile market. Palm has just announced that the Palm OS is now in its final resting place. Palm’ s CEO Ed Colligan stated earlier this week that the mobile device company will be focusing their efforts manufacturing devices powered by webOS and Windows Mobile. Palm fans first saw this trend in the Treo 750 back in 2007, sporting the latest Windows Mobile OS.  Now Palm is making this a reality amongst all their future devices.

So it’s time to bid your final farewell to your well-loved Palm apps. I personally will miss the Porta-Monkey from the Palm III era, and will continue to practice the Grafitti handwriting in case the Palm OS ever comes back from the grave.

But a door does not close without another one opening. And for Palm users and excited Pre pre-owners, you will find an app store that’s open to different providers. Download-install goodness to come with the Pre!

Palm Pre

by jrjuan on 09/01/09 at 2:41 am

A few years back, Palm revolutionized the way we use smartphones and how we manage our life using a very efficient personal information management. Now, after years of waiting, Palm introduced another innovation with their Palm Pre.

The Palm Pre is dubbed as Palm’s last hope to make a comeback in the very competitive smartphone market as their Treo smartphones are quickly losing against the competitors. Their latest  Treo Pro is based on Windows Mobile thus making it not much of a news-maker though its great aesthetics can be commended. Palm’s Pre is the first to have the new Palm webOS operating system that is something that is at par of its competitors if not ahead and is capable of multitasking, very nice looking and very fast too!

The Palm Pre has 802.11b / g WiFi, integrated GPS, 3.1 inch 320×480 HVGA display, physical qwerty keyboard that is similar to their Treo line, POP and IMAP email, 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, ambient sensor, proximity sensor, accelerometer, WiFi, bluetooth, 8gb of user storage and compatibility with the new Palm Touchstone charging dock.

The Palm Touchstone charger is another innovation that came along with the release of the Pre as it is something developed for a technology that is relatively new. Though a separate purchase of a back cover for Touchstone use is needed, it would still be a nice accessory to have.

The effect of Palm releasing the new operating system and smartphone is immediately felt as Palm shares went up 35 percent closing at $4.45.

Palm Nova at CES 2009?

by jrjuan on 04/01/09 at 9:20 pm

It is very much rumored that the company that paved the way for mobile computing way way back and suffered market share loss from its competitors is making a comeback this 2009.

Palm, a company based in Sunnyvale, California has long been left by its competitors due to its lackluster hardware on its smartphones and its very much outdated operating system as compared to the RIM’s BlackBerry, HTC and other phone manufacturers’ flashy user interface.

But hope is near according to some since the new OS that people have been waiting for from Palm is set to be due this January at CES 2009 along with major hardware upgrades that will come along with it.

The new operating system is said to target the “fat middle” which is in between the business side of smartphones and the multimedia side to basically to have the best of both worlds.

This could be the make or break point for Palm as it have only a few quarters of operating money left in the bank according to BusinessWeek and with the not so encouraging economic outlook, they might have to show off something very great to turn things around.

The latest device that Palm released is based on the Windows Mobile platform.