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PalmSource Unveils Palm OS 6.1 For Smartphones

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-dimwitted dept.

TourmalineT writes "PalmSource has introduced Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 during their European DevCon. Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 is aimed at next-gen smartphones and provides VGA support, enhanced integrated telephony features, roaming support for WiFi and Bluetooth and enhancements to the user interface. They have also announced a new web browser and free platform development tools based on the open source Eclipse IDE."

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  1. Everyone's looking forward to the new features. by cbiffle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think this might well be the first time, in my memory, that a company has released an upgrade to an OS that's more or less unreleased.

    Sure, you've been able to run OS6 on an emulator for about a year now, but there have been a grand total of zero OS6 devices released.

    But, hey, at least we can all go upgrade our emulators!

  2. Treo 650? by VJoseph · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nice. I wonder if this new OS will be on the Treo 650 that is rumored to be out in October. Palm has registered the domain treo650.com but so far has given no official information on this device, that I know of. I hope it will. I mean what other product do they have that it can really be used on.

  3. Re:Question by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    maybe.

    what i would be asking would be "will there be a device done for it soon?".

    what good does a wifi configurator do when you don't have wifi, or even a device...

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  4. Re:Multitasking by Polo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Your comment is misleading.

    You can easily switch back and forth between applications and there is no real functionality lost.

    True you can't run 3 applications simultaneously on the screen at one time or something, but you can do several tasks and switch back and forth.

    How do you explain being talking on the phone, and then switching to notepad or calendar to check something or enter some data, then switching back to the phone call (still in progress?)

    When I exit a game, then switch back to it it's still in progress...

  5. busy screenshots? by Polo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm looking at the screenshots and my perception is that the modeline is too busy. It's starting to look like people's out-of-control systray stuff on windows.

    I think that palm might be losing it's simplicity in design to "design by committee" feature creepage.