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Comments on: Palm admits new OS 18 months away

Didnt they 

Posted Wednesday 3rd October 2007 13:23 GMT

Already prove they can't get a new opsys out? PalmOS 6, wasn't it? Whatever happened to that? Oh, it was very late and missed the boat...

Generic title 

Posted Wednesday 3rd October 2007 14:12 GMT

Anyone want to take any bets on whether or not Palm will still *exist* in 18 months time? Not that I'm being cynical or anything like that ... oh my no ...

Their only chance would be 

Posted Wednesday 3rd October 2007 14:27 GMT

to make a working linux distribution for phones and sell that. If it has a palm layer or not doesn't really matter nowdays. Their biggest competitor nowdays is the openmoko project which also aims to make a linux phone.

AARGH 

Posted Wednesday 3rd October 2007 16:20 GMT

I really wish Palm would come out with a new update soon! I really like Palm devices, but it's dragging on so much...and I want to buy a new phone, but no, there is no Palm device for me to upgrade too...

So it looks like Symbian, but my money application program is Palm OS only. Plus I hate Outlook, so I'm using Palm Desktop. As far as I know, Sunbird isn't nearly ready to be used mainstream (although it's coming on leaps and bounds) and there is no way to sync it with a Symbian phone. I could use SyncML (and there are loads of public servers available) - but the SyncML plugin for Sunbird absolutely sucks (because it doesn't work).

So we're back to square one, and I'm thinking I should just buy a Mac, because then it would be so much easier to simply run a standalone calendar application which I don't need to pay for.

Looking wistfully at old Palm 3i sitting on shelf 

Posted Thursday 4th October 2007 01:18 GMT

Why is it that these days when I hear the word 'Palm' I immediately get an image of Cletus Spuckler in my head?

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