A Palm-Compatible PDA for $100?

LinuxWolf asks: "This ad on PDABuzz is for an Oregon Scientific OSPro (2MB). The device has 2MB of memory, a screen size slightly larger than the Palm, little bit more software than the Palm, IrDA capability, and (allegedly, according to advertisements) "Compatible with PalmPilot". The regular price is $279, but the ad site has it listed for $79. This is really cool, but then I ask, "can it run PalmOS software?" The OS in use is a proprietary one, but I cannot find any additional information on this thing. Oregon Scientific does not seem to have a FAQ or sales e-mail, either. Anybody know more?"

Comments

palm os compatible

[RalfM]

There is a press release at http://www.pmn.co.uk/public/ce/ news/july1999/1.html, which has the fantastic quote:

Significantly, it is compatible with the Palm Computing platform, although it is unclear whether it has licensed this technology from Palm Computing itself.

There are also some discussion forums at PDA Buzz, particularly this one, that you may want to pursue. Having a quick look myself, it doesn't appear that Palm apps work unfortunately, but there is a bunch of information there...

Regards,

Ralf

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Funny Definition of Compatible

[Bruce Perens]

Compatible, in this case, means file formats, and that's at the PC host level.

Bruce

Hmm...

[cr0sh]

I remember seeing this at Fry's not too long back, and wondering exactly what it was (it was $99.00). I could tell it wasn't OS/software compatible from the packaging, but that was about it...

What I wanted to know is how one could create applications for it - games, real apps, etc. I mean, for all of the wonderful ways that TI calculators are used for games, you would think this device could be used that way as well...

Anybody know of any compilers, etc for it?