The appliance - scheduled for a mid-July launch in Japan - will run on the Palm operating system. Industry analysts expect Sony's adoption of the Palm operating system to be a step further in establishing an industry standard and, as such, a blow...
The interface could do with some fine-tuning and lacks some of the intuitive features of the Palm OS. Otherwise users are unlikely to be willing to sacrifice the usability of the Palm OS or the hard options of a high-spec PDA like the iPaq or Sony...
It was launched a year ago as a flip-open, Palm OS PDA-phone hybrid, offered in two models. Palm OS-based devices use a form character input known as graffiti. While Palm may not hold all the patents in this area it, and a number of its licensees...
The main message, however, was that Microsoft will back a market of clone, Wintel-based handhelds, whereas Palm is looking at allowing manufacturers to maintain profit margins through various types of specialised devices.
Symbian, PalmSource's Palm OS and Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 are the top three smart phone operating systems currently in use. AOL Time Warner's online division is already at work on Symbian versions of its popular instant message programs AOL...
So far, Palm OS-based smart phones were not being considered, Zennström said, because the operating system wasn't that great for voice processing. In the US, video telephony is available from Packet8, a Silicon Valley-based net phone operator.
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