Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th May 2008 17:20 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Back in 1996, Palm released its first Palm Pilot PDAs onto the market, and quickly became a household name in the PDa business - so far as that Palm and Palm Pilot became synonyms for any PDA device. The company has hit some rough waters lately, but if it's up to CEO Ed Colligan, that's all going to change in the coming years.
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Member since:2007-09-06
I was never able to get the Tungsten T5 synchronized against a Linux distribution; it became one of the few reasons I keep Windows installed. I couldn't wait any longer for them to build an update to the T5 (Livedrive was close but not quite).
They had enough challenge with WinME eating there market share alive, now they'll have to best the Nokia N810.
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2005-07-06
As a Palm developer, and a Palm user (Centro), I vote ditch the Classic OS except in a VM on top of the Linux or CE OS. My Centro has great features - I use SSH, VNC, sync my Palm over the Net with my home Linux box. It has a lot of things for me to love as a geek.
HOWEVER, 2-3 times a day I have to pop the back off (which is not that easy) and take the battery out to reset the device. Putting the cover back on is even harder. The lack of memory protection in the Classic Palm OS is no longer acceptable. It would be OK to run classic apps in a VM (like StyleTap on CE), as the inevitable lockups would not trash the device. BTW, the apps that lockup on a Palm are across the board - some 3rd party, and some from Palm (or Sprint) itself. It must change!