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11-05-2004, 10:25 AM
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No Palm OS Cobalt Devices Until 2006?
palmOne's president said yesterday that his company won't commit to releasing models with the latest version of the Palm OS next year.
Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/No...2006?site=Palm |
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11-05-2004, 10:42 AM
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Holy crap, if thats true, its the end of Palm.
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11-05-2004, 11:16 AM
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So I am limited to 16 categories and 4000 character limits till after 2006 and thats not even definite. Pocket PC is looking good now. First they release that garbage T5 and now this. If I wasn't highly intelligent, I would think that they were trying to sabotage their own company.
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11-05-2004, 11:32 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by George Mitchell
So I am limited to 16 categories and 4000 character limits till after 2006 and thats not even definite.
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palmOne removed the 4,000 character limit in its PIM apps last year. Sadly, the 16 category limit still remains. Of course, you can always use a third-party PIM application that doesn't have this limit. |
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11-05-2004, 12:19 PM
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Where's the perfect PDA?
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Hopefully, they are just trying to protect sales of the recently released T5 and Treo 650.
If not, then I'm left to believe that Cobalt must be a total piece of cr@p that is so difficult to work with NOBODY wants to use it. If this is the case then it's a sad day for Palm fans as this is the signal of the end of POS as we know it.
I'm more of a PPC fan, but understand how important it is for MS to have real competition so both platforms can continue to evolve.
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11-05-2004, 01:31 PM
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This dims my hopes of seeing an integrated BT/Wi-Fi Treo running PalmOS next year. 
I'm not going to say this announcement signals the end of P1, but I've seen many companies eventually succumb due to lack of innovation. It will be interesting to see what comes from PalmOne next year, if anything, that runs PalmOS. |
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11-05-2004, 02:38 PM
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Smitty Werben man Jensen
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So when HP and Dell come out with handhelds running Windows Mobile 2005, will palmOne still be fiddling around with OS 5?
And I love this quote:
"...there's no need to confuse developers by switching."
Wow, hold the phone. I thought the whole point of creating OS 5 was to ease the transition between OS 4 and OS 6, and to not "confuse developers." Developers have had access to OS 6 for almost a year now, so could it be that confusing? Also, if the apps designed by developers are written properly, most should run fine under OS 6.
In a time where PPC's are gaining more ground each day, palmOne could use OS 6 to help boost its popularity. If the T5 had been released with OS 6, you might have not heard as much bickering and disguist. Instead, the T5 has been dubbed by many as the T|E2...
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11-05-2004, 02:55 PM
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"Nobody knows when we'll start the shift to Cobalt, OS 6, or on which devices," Mr. Colligan said. "For now, we're saying that we've built the functionality we need into the Treo and the Tungsten T5 and there's no need to confuse developers by switching. I'm not even prepared to commit us to a change next year, or the year after, at this stage."
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He sounds almost as if he takes joy in dashing all hope of power/geek/hobbyist users (whatever they are called). As for the theory being floated that there is some sort of problem with Cobolt - what evidence is there that this is the case? Surely the 6.1 version released last month would address any problems (if such problems ever existed). As somebody posted above - Cobolt has been available for devs for 10 months - and the Cobolt Sim is really Cobolt compiled for x86 instead of for ARM - and there are no big problems that i am aware of.
>>we've built the functionality we need into the Treo and the Tungsten T5
Guess what you a$$ - I decide what I need in a device - it's not about what you need! Screw palmOne. |
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11-05-2004, 02:59 PM
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I don't get it. Nokia looses a bit of market share, they decide to put out 40 phones in the next year to compensate. palmOne looses market share and they.. blither around, still using the same old stuff. I know it's not exactly the same, but come on. At least one company looks like it's trying to help itself and the consumers.
lack of innovation harms everybody.
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11-05-2004, 05:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by ucfgrad93
Holy crap, if thats true, its the end of Palm.
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It never fails....someone's always got to say it. Why does it never seem to come true? |
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