Palm Ramping Up for Linux-Based Devices
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I going to tell you right now. I like Palm, but man, if they don’t start to ‘wow’ people pretty darn fast, it won’t matter what they offer us running Linux. By then, it’ll be too late.
Although Palm OS Cobalt was introduced over a year ago, Palm, Inc. has never released a handheld or smartphone running it, and it’s very unlikely that it ever will do so.
Instead the company has continued to use the previous version, Palm OS Garnet, in all its devices. It has, however, continued to modify and tweak this version to better fit its needs.
Palm isn’t alone in shunning Cobalt. Even PalmSource recently admitted that it has given up on Cobalt and is concentrating its efforts on the next major revamp of its operating system, currently known as Palm OS for Linux. [Read the rest]