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New Palm Pictures?
New Palm writes "It looks like pictures of a new Palm os5 device codenamed 'Oslo' have hit the web. www.pocketpcthought.com had them up, but after a phonecall from Palm's Director of Global Information Security, pulled the pictures. A number of people are mirroring them. Looks semi-legit - but who knows, and who knows how long the images will stay up?
First "mirror" link is broken in the article...
--- Ãther SPOON!
Here is a better Mirror
About the device
-Interesting way to make the device smaller
-Still hard graffit?
-320x320 screen
kawai
The first mirror link, which as of now is broken, should be: http://home.earthlink.net/~ahecht/newpalm-large.jp g
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Can you still be a karma whore even when you're at the cap?
-- "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage." -Naomi Littlebear
Also mirrored here: http://www.jeffwilhelm.com/files/Palm.jpg
This is a nice "Zaurus with graffiti"-esque look, but the screen is still the little tiny one found on all palms.
Except one. The Sony Clie NR70/V has a bigger screen, because instead of hiding the graffiti pad under some buttons, it's part of the screen. so, if you dont want graffiti pad, you get rid of it, and you've got more screen space. And with that integrated keyboard, you'll never need graffiti in the first place.
http://www.linkdj.net/
Oh that looks schweet. I have always loved the 5 seris because they are so slick, not to mention thin. Unfortunatly, I cannot justify the pricetag considering you can get a great processor and motherboard for that price at motherboards.com. I can always dream though.
Here's a mirror of the pic(s) if need be. Have fun.
Codito Ergo Sum
Doesn't look like a Jog wheel to me. Looks more like a directional pad.
Gorkman
The blurred out area besides the word Oslo is a serial number. I saw the same picture but with the serial number intact on several Chinese websites last week, and was wondering why there had been no mention of it at all on the English websites.
It was a serial number. The article says that Palm requested the original picture with serial number intact, presumably to trace the leak to an individual.
No one linked to the actual story here:
c .p hp?t=2152
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopi
The image looked "doctored" because it was - the serial number was blurred out, but that's it. Palm also threatened this guy and he took down the images...
Dave, the fucker that he is, stole the image from the original site (Pocket PC Thoughts) and then edited out the watermarked image, used a clone brush on the spot where the serial number used to be, and put it on that gay blue background.
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The original image that was posted:
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/newpalm-
You mean like one of those things on a game console controler? In place of a mouse? Wouldn't that be a bit of overkill with a PDA having a stylus?
I pulled the pic into a graphics editor and did a little magnification of the subject. I found a couple of interesting things.
There are some square-ish artifacts around the obviously oval "Slide Show" button that should not be there if the icon was generated. The same square-ish artifacts exist around the inverted triangle icon in the upper right.
Additionally, the right edge looks as if it was lifted from something else and dropped on there, or the overall dimensions were adjusted. At any rate it looks like somebody mucked with it.
So... for (int i=0; i 1000; i++) printf ("fake");
There's my opinion in one thousand words.
Ok, so as I was reading the comments I found various, "It's fake" and this that and the other thing. The one thing that threw me off is mention of a cloud background, I saw absolutely no clouds...
o cloud. Branding. SN Obscurity.
s . REBranding. SN Obscurity redone.
Until I found the OTHER image.
http://members.rogers.com/kawaichan/palm.jpg
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http://hisham.cc/files/pics/palmaroo.jpg
Cloud
The second one done by daves ipaq is horribly manipulated. It's quite obvious he wanted credit for it, and so modified it to have his cloudy background, removed the other guys branding, and removed the others SN Obscurity. You can tell, because half of the "o" on Oslo is mangled.
Dave, you suck, uninstall photoshop you fool.
If you want to zoom in 400X to see if you can detect any l33t choppage to claim your right as mastar-detective, use the first one.
Computational Madness in a round package.
This is my webpage, and I've been slashdotted, and exceeded my maximum allocated bandwidth by a factor of three. Please get the image from elsewhere, such as Palminfocenter.com or tpug.org. Thanks.