"I'm not dead yet..."
Here's hoping that PalmOS's seeming decline is only a flesh wound.
Brighthand reports today that Samsung has confirmed the release of the SPH-i550 smartphone. Yes...finally an OS5 phone to compete with the Treo 600. (I know of no others...correct me if I'm wrong). The phone takes a standard flip phone format with no graffiti area, although it will accept a popup keyboard. No word on whether it will have bluetooth, though. It would be a nice touch.
All in all, I'd say that this is a good development, considering the dearth of development on the PalmOS front as of late. I mean, OS6 has been out for what, more than a year now and we have yet to see an OS6 device? And with Sony backing out of the market and seriously looking at Symbian for future smartphone development, it's nice to see someone other than PalmOne and Tapwave release a new PalmOS device.
Oh, and hi! I'm Tory...I'm the "silent" blogger on WOYP. ;) I'm the webmaster of re:Thinking and an independent computer/PDA consultant in South Dakota.
Brighthand reports today that Samsung has confirmed the release of the SPH-i550 smartphone. Yes...finally an OS5 phone to compete with the Treo 600. (I know of no others...correct me if I'm wrong). The phone takes a standard flip phone format with no graffiti area, although it will accept a popup keyboard. No word on whether it will have bluetooth, though. It would be a nice touch.
All in all, I'd say that this is a good development, considering the dearth of development on the PalmOS front as of late. I mean, OS6 has been out for what, more than a year now and we have yet to see an OS6 device? And with Sony backing out of the market and seriously looking at Symbian for future smartphone development, it's nice to see someone other than PalmOne and Tapwave release a new PalmOS device.
Oh, and hi! I'm Tory...I'm the "silent" blogger on WOYP. ;) I'm the webmaster of re:Thinking and an independent computer/PDA consultant in South Dakota.
1 Comments:
At 8:55 PM, Anonymous said…
Actually, Palm OS Cobalt (OS 6) was released to device makers at the end of December 2003, while 6.0.1 was released in May. Considering that it's a totally new OS, it takes a bit longer for device makers to get used to it than OS 5, so not having a device out now isn't too unexpected.
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