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By: A Few Details About Palm’s New Phone? | Technologizer

A Few Details About Palm’s New Phone? | Technologizer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:05 +0000

[...] a software store. And the new OS is said to be “amazing.” I’m looking forward to Thursday’s Palm event at CES, when all–or at least more than nothing, which is what we know for sure now–will be [...]

By: darwiniandude

darwiniandude — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:36:01 +0000

I thought Apple invented (or first to market) the PDA with Newton. Wasn’t Palm done by ex apple employees years later?

By: Daniel Ionescu

Daniel Ionescu — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:12:21 +0000

Harry,

I’ve been a Palm user as well (for a short while admittedly) but honestly, I think Palm would be better off with Android – ditching WinMo and putting their efforts into making better hardware. Their phones are still chunky and rock ancient cameras and software… And – do they really have the resources to build a better OS than Google?

Anyway, in my opinion, Rubinstein is just trying to creeate some buzz around the January CES launch. My story is here: http://tinyurl.com/6yuhkl

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:38:10 +0000

Palm is doomed.
Part of the success of the iPhone is the add-on app market.
Developers do not want to write code for multiple platforms. And, they certainly won’t write for a phone/device with a very low market share. Therefore, there won’t be any apps for the new Palm OS.

By: mrspin

mrspin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:26:30 +0000

I’m rooting for Palm too, and by looks of things they still have a lot of fans. If they produce something decent then they can cash in that good feeling. They do, however, face many, many challenges… Here’s more of my thoughts.
http://www.last100.com/2008/12/15/why-im-backing-palm-to-make-a-comeback/

By: Anne B.

Anne B. — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:59:25 +0000

I am also rooting for Palm. I love my Zire 31, I love the Palm desktop. It does pretty much everything I want an organizer to do, including keeping my perpetual grocery list and my database of books I want to read. I have my Bible on it, with a really great search function. What makes me crazy – and why I’m starting to drop it – is that it plays so poorly with other apps. It’s a bear getting Palm into my Gmail address book or even my Motorola cell phone address book. And forget working with gCal or anything else. It imports and exports into Toodledo, but doesn’t sync. Yes, I can sync to Outlook, but I don’t like Outlook.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:08:35 +0000

Is it a clamp down on leaks or are the new hardware and software products so far off that no one’s seem them yet? I’d like to see Palm succeed… they pretty much invented the PDA market market and both the Palm V and Treo lines are iconic. Here’s to hoping they can do it one more time. (They could have already hit it that third time with the Folio – but they gave up on it right about when the netbook craze started. I really like it, just not the market positioning they were going with.)