Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 22:16 UTC
Palm on Friday warned investors that development delays by PalmSource on Palm's next operating system have hurt the hardware maker's ability to compete in the smartphone and PDA markets. PalmSource, Palm's spun-off software division, has also violated a royalties contract, Palm said in its annual report. Despite those potential hurdles, Palm says it is continuing to work with PalmSource to develop a new operating system featuring a Linux kernel, though no timetable has been set.
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2005-07-06
Anyway, PalmOS is starting to lack on features that you can have or add to WinCE. With device today, from PDA to smartphone, memory is no longer a problem, it's cheap so even if WinCE is more bloated than PalmOS, who cares?
WinCE (and WinCE devices) may be more technologically-advanced, but Palm still has them beat in terms of usability. There was a review of the Treo 700w in the Globe & Mail which hit the nail on the head - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060105.gttreor... . It mentioned that Palm used to employ a "tap counter" whose job was to test routine tasks in the Palm UI and ensure that they required no more than 2-3 taps of the stylus. I have a Treo 650 through work and I think that sort of attention-to-detail is one of the biggest factors that makes it a good device.
From the reviews I've read of the 700w, at least, it sounds as if that level of attention to usability detail isn't present in WinCE. I think it's pretty telling that most of the 650 vs 700 comparative reviews focus on how much longer common tasks take with the 700 than with the 650 (E.g., 3-4 steps to enable speakerphone for the current call with the 700w, vs. 1 step with the 600).