A Fortune Magazine article looks at hand-held computing's most beleaguered major player and wonders whether it wouldn't be better off hitching its wagon to Google's coat-tails and adopting Android. After shunting aside its own, old-and-creaky OS in favor of Microsoft's it's been hanging its hopes on a long-awaited new Linux-based OS. Android may be Palm's best bet to avoid stemming its inexorable slide into irrelevance.
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Member since:2007-09-06
We'll see how Nokia decides to go. They still seem to be running phones, smartphones and the MIDs seporately; my theory being to avoid canabalizing there own various markets. Maemo5 does sound interesting though and the expected addition of 3G radios in the next MID does a lot to blure the lines further though I'm not sure if it will be just data or data/voice connections. We'll have to see if the new N### hardware justifies an upgrade like the N810 does over the N800.
Ugh.. I still prefer my cell and PDA to be seporate boxes. Smarphones make good use of screen space on the chassis and the iPhone has more than a few drawbacks that negate it from my list of potential devices. It's pretty and fine if you just need an Apple branded smart phone though.
Member since:2005-07-06
heh, if you really want to hack around, have a look at the openpandora 
ok, so its first of a gaming platform, but given that its has wifi and bluetooth, and a keyboard of sorts, someone is bound to turn it into some kind of pda like device...
only issue i guess is that its clamshell, not slate...
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2005-07-06
given the recent fremantle talks, it seems nokia is aiming squarely at iphone