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PalmOS 5 Turns Gold

Posted by timothy on from the rumplepalmskin dept.

Stalke writes: "On sunday, PalmSource (the spinoff from Palm responsible for the development of the PalmOS) announced that PalmOS 5 has gone gold. This latest version of the operating system includes support for ARM processors, Bluetooth and 802.11b, high-res displays (320x320; although Sony already uses even high res displays in its NR70) and more. Products with PalmOS 5 should start shipping in just over a months' time!"

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  1. Moving forward finally? by essdodson · · Score: 0, Troll

    When considering a PDA I considered that the PalmOS offerings really haven't come very far in the past few years. The only real advancements made were larger storage and more add ons. On the other hand PocketPC offerings offer much more and tend to have much more processing power to keep up with the latest and greatest software.

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    scott
  2. Re:moving slowly...open the source!! by foobar104 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Mozilla - a failure in that it was slow in making software, however the final result is excellent

    "Excellent" by what standard? It's slower and buggier than IE on Mac and PC, Opera on PC, and OmniWeb on Mac. It's superior in any meaningful way only to previous versions of itself.

    Gnome and KDE - solid environments that have been very successful.

    Slow, overwhelmingly complex desktops that are inferior in terms of ease of use and user experience to the Windows desktop, the classic Mac desktop, and the Mac OS X desktop. These can be considered successful only when compared to CDE or other truly unpleasant desktops.

    OpenOffice - another star of Open Source development.

    Buggy, slow, hard to use, and feature-incomplete. If that's what you guys think of as a star, I'd hate to see what you call failures.