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Palm Offers Refund to m130 Owners
EyesWideOpen writes "On Wednesday Palm began notifying registered m130 owners "that they were entitled to a full refund, including taxes paid on the PDA" for misleading them about the actual number of colors the product supports. The m130 was originally advertised as supporting 65,536 colors when in actuality it can only display 58,621. Owners who choose to forfeit the refund and keep the PDA could instead download a free version of the video game SimCity." Looks like a great deal for those who don't care about the bit depth of their PDA, and a way out for those who do.
Ok, totally off-topic, but something I've been asking for a while, where the heck are PDAs based on PalmOS 5.0?!
The operating system was released back in June, and (silly me) I figured that PalmOS had worked with PDA manufacturers (or at the very least Palm themselves) beforehand so that actual products using this new operating system would be out shortly there-after. Well it's now 3 months later, and the best I've heard are some far-off rumors that the new handhelds MIGHT be coming sometime sorta not too long from now, like next year!
Come on Palm, Handspring, Sony et al. EVERYONE knew basically what was going to be required for this new OS LONG ago, why is the hardware lagging so far behind the software?! It's not even like the hardware would require that much in the way of development, since any current PocketPC PDA should be able to run PalmOS 5.0 with virtually no hardware modifications.
Anyway, that's just my little rant for the day.
I am still employing Cowboy Neal with crayons and a sketch pad. I thought everybody else was too...