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New Palm Pictures?

Posted by Hemos on from the bouncing-around-the-web dept.

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?

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  1. Great for games! by John+Harrison · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Finally a Palm with a button layout that can be useful for games! This has taken too long! If they had put a little bit of thought into this in the first place we never would have had to deal with non-intuitive control layouts for so many games.

    That alone might make be purchase one since my Handspring recently died.

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    Lasers Controlled Games!
  2. Re:Keyboard by rleyton · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Moving parts are a Bad Thing(tm). They're always the first thing to go wrong, and the most expensive to replace.

    *Sigh*

    KISS is a sensible design methodology that I fear organiser manufacturers are forgetting.

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    ooooooh! What does this button do? - DeeDee, Dexters Lab.
  3. Bad design by totallygeek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Moving parts are a Bad Thing(tm). They're always the first thing to go wrong, and the most expensive to replace.

    You are right. While speaking about bad design, the worst is the CD jewel case. I mean, they come out with compact discs -- awesome, but make the hinges on the jewel cases the weakest two pieces of cheap plastic known to man!

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    Click here or here.
  4. Be folks working on v6 by brokeninside · · Score: 4, Insightful
    AFAIK, the engineers from Be are working on v6 which is currently a nebulous "next generation" OS for Palm Computing.

    Palm OS v5 is essentially the Palm OS kernel hacked to run on ARM with a few kludges for a bit of functionality that Palm OS currently lacks to make it competitive.

    If these pix are real, they are far more likely to be of a unit running Palm OS v5 than v6 as v6 doesn't really exist yet except on whiteboards in the heads of the OS architects.

    I have two hopes for v6:

    1. Palm Computing doesn't pull an IBM (OS/2 PPC) or an Apple (Copland, the original MacOS 8).
    2. The Be invasion of the software division of Palm Computing proceeds a la the NeXT invasion of Apple.
    And I still think it a shame that Palm Computing decided that Linux (because of the GPL) was incompatible with their business model in relation to IP. It is also a shame that they didn't (apparently) look into one of the BSDs.

    Of course, the Be crowd was purchased at a fire sale price. I bet JLG is kicking himself in the head when the company he refused to sell to Apple for millions barely managed to get hundreds of thousands in liquidation.