3Com To Charge $20 For Palm OS 3.5

Alex Bischoff writes: "According to this NY Times Article, 3Com will release Palm OS 3.5 in the fall, but for about $20. 'Mr. Cook said that he had already heard grumbling from some Palm users about the upgrading fee and that some future releases might still be free.' ObCredit: PalmStation." (Free registration, worth every penny.) I wonder if this is a way to sell more (new) Palms?

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Here's what 3.5 adds

[alee]

For those that are curious about what PalmOS 3.5 adds to/improves upon over 3.3, visit the link below:

http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/p almos35/

Some of the more "significant" changes that Palm touts include:

• The Graphics System includes support for 1, 2, 4, and 8 bit color and grayscale.
• The Datebook's new Agenda view combines a view of a day's appointments with the day's ToDo tasks
• The Alarm dialog now has larger buttons to facilitate finger operation, as well as a "Snooze" button
• When beaming an entire category, the receiver's dialog allows selection of the destination category in which to place the items
• The Title, Company, City, State and Country fields in the Address book support auto-completion of the input text
• Masked records
• The Command bar
• Tapping the title tab of an application shows the menu bar
• Double-tapping on a word in a field selects it; triple-tapping selects the line
• The category indicator has changed to differentiate between when the data is changing versus when the view of the data is changing. See the memo pad edit screen for an example.

Personally, I don't think that it's worth a $20 upgrade. Not only are the changes minor, but from all indications I've seen, 3.5 is SLOWER.

Haiku Summary for the bandwidth impaired.

[enneff]

A new palm os,
3com charges twenty bucks,
Bad publicity.