Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Aug 2005 17:19 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless After a long stretch of bad news for a company whose software once turned words such as "PDA" and "Palm Pilot" into household names, PalmSource is finally showing signs that maybe, just maybe, it can field the right product, at the right time, to turn its luck around.
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Palms are not PCs
by on Thu 18th Aug 2005 19:06 UTC

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Linux is a hog for battery consumption. It will be the death of Palm.

RE: Palms are not PCs
by on Thu 18th Aug 2005 19:55 in reply to "Palms are not PCs"
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Are you talking of the Zaurus having poor battery life?

Why should a Palm worsen its battery life just because it runs Linux instead of PalmOS 5?

It's mostly about power management, dynamic clock speed adjustment... Linux is perfectly capable of that. And compiling a custom kernel for every handheld wouldn't be too hard on PalmSource, would it?

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