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Posted by Martin T on September 27, 2005, 1:43 am
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http://www.palm.com/us/
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Posted by JF Mezei on September 27, 2005, 5:31 am
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Martin T wrote:
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> http://www.palm.com/us/
Yeah, that made the news a lot yesterday.
Also of note, the number of the big handset manufacturers that are
looking at windows and linux.
In terms of Palm, I suspect they got a very generous compensation from
Microsoft to make that device. If I remember correctly, Palm had hinted
at moving to Linux not so long ago. I suspect MS may have stepped in to
kill those plans.
Is it just me, or is the future of Symbian quite bleak ? Or has Symbian
OS (aka: EPOC32) become prevalent in modern handsets, even those not
marketd as "smartphones" ?
eg: do the basic phones with cameras and other gadgets still run
proprietary OS or are they mostly all Symbian based now ?
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Posted by Aidan Karley on September 27, 2005, 2:00 pm
Please log in for more thread options > eg: do the basic phones with cameras and other gadgets still run
> proprietary OS or are they mostly all Symbian based now ?
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Errr, isn't SymbianOS a proprietary OS. Viz, closed-source, sold
or licensed to manufacturers for inclusion in particular devices, not
given away for "free as in speech, or beer".
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Posted by The Electric Fan Club on September 27, 2005, 10:30 am
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> http://www.palm.com/us/
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> martin
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and the relevance to a Psion newsgroups is?
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Posted by JF Mezei on September 27, 2005, 5:47 am
Please log in for more thread options The Electric Fan Club wrote:
> and the relevance to a Psion newsgroups is?
Very relevant.
At the time PSION rushed the Series 5 out before it was ready, it was
partly because it feared that Microsoft would take over the market
instantly with its "WIN CE" thing. In fact, PSION started to pull out
of the market right at that time.
Ironically, Microsoft wasn't anywhere near ready for PDAs/Mobile
devices, and it was PALM that took over the PDA market. And it took many
iterations of Microsoft's attempt at a PDA version of Windows before it
became palatable. And now, even PALM is succombing to Microsoft's
pressure.
So what is now left is the RIM Blackberry.
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