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Nintendo With Possible Palm OS Capabilities

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the makes-a-lotta-sense dept.

Sammy writes "According to GamerCentric, Nintendo has licensed Palm OS software although there intentions are not clear. "Well there seems to be some clues about this. "Nintendo had recently licensed Palm OS based PDA software without any details on why they had done it. Now Nintendo sources have revealed that V-Pocket trademark concerns this licensing. E3 will be the first witness of Nintendo's complete line of personal organizer tools for its Nintendo DS." So there is a possibility that we could see a Nintendo device with Palm OS organizer capabilities."

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  1. Re:Let me guess by JanneM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kids play nintendo.
    Adults use palm.

    In their home market, everybody plays video games, not just kids. This could be a pretty good move to get people in their twenties to go for the DS rather than the PSP.

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  2. I would buy Nintendo Palm IMMEDIATELY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a DS, and frankly, the number of good games released so far is disappointing (but there are a few winners, like Feel the Magic, and Band Brothers in Japan).

    I no longer have a Palm, but had a VII and Palm Pilot Professional a while back.

    If Nintendo released essentially a Palm cartridge that turned your DS into a fully functional Palm OS machine, I would buy it in a second -- ESPECIALLY if it included a browser that took advantage of the DS' built-in wireless. I DO miss having a handheld computer -- I just can't justify it, when I already have a SE T-610 phone, and iBook G4 w/ BT and 802.11b/g. But $50 bucks or so for a Palm that uses my nice DS hardware (when it's sitting idle for lack of games)? Hells yeah!