Feedback on Palm OS 5 PDAs?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday October 31, 2002 @12:02AM from the first-impressions dept.

Dark Neuron asks: "I work with a PDA software development group, and have been interested in the changes in the Palm Operating System (from 4.01 to 5.0). There are 2 new devices available, the Sony Clie PEG-NX70V and the Palm Tungsten T. The Tungsten has built in Bluetooth, and the Clie has the advantage of an accessory Wireless LAN (WiFi) card. There are some Secure Digital 802.11b cards in development, that could be used by the Tungsten (the power drain of which I do not know) but none available yet but they may be out by 2003. Does anyone have experience with either new device yet, or knowledge of Secure Didital WiFi cards in development? Any feedback on the New OS 5.0 yet?"

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Already? by Bart+van+der+Ouderaa · 2002-10-31 03:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

Isn't this a bit of a premature question?
You as a PDA software developer should have these machines sooner than most. The Sony isn't even on sale yet and the Palm (reviewed at PDABuzz.com) has only been available since what, monday?

Since those are the only 2 devices with Palm 5 at the moment, I'm sure not many have seen them.

If you want this info, get the devices yourself and see. I'm very interested in what the challenges are for a PDA developer with the new Palm 5 OS (although, maybe I should wait until OS 6 :-)

It'll take atleast a week before we get a good review in (the guys at pdabuzz got a review version).