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Cingular Wireless and Palm, Inc. today introduced the new Palm Treo 680 smart device, whose brand-new look, broad range of features and economical price will appeal to both consumers and business customers - just in time for the holidays. The Treo 680 quad-band world phone on the Palm OS platform - which is available beginning […]

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
Experienced coders get experienced by repeating two things: looking at the code of others and by coding, themselves. There is a lot of good sample code available in Open Source products, however, getting concepts presented in a structured and commented fashion can be very comfortable.
Ted Faison’s Event Based Programming: Taking Events […]

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
There are a lot of leather cases from several distributors on the market. Today, I looked at Proporta’s Alu-Leather case on my Palm TX. It is said to work with the Tungsten T5, too!
The case is padded all around, and the flipping part is strengthened with an aluminum piece, and it […]

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
The Treo 600 does not ship with a cradle. While I’ve written about the weakness of the cradle concept more than once, being the animal of habit that I am, I wanted a cradle for my Treo 600 - and Brando complied. Brando shipped a really good Palm Z22 cradle and […]

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
A few days ago I got a mail from the developer who ported an emulator that lets you use real PC apps on a Palm. It’s the Palm OS port of the well-known DOS emulator DOSBox. It doesn’t only emulate an x86 CPU but also a DOS environment, so you can’t […]

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
The Treo 600 is a classic smartphone, and aluminum hard cases are classics, too. This combination would immediately score big in the Retro carnival - but let’s see how Proporta’s aluminum hard case for Palm Treo 600 fares in a TamsPalm review:
The aluminum case ships in a blister labeled in French […]

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
Palm OO Garnet isnt dead yet - at least not for GSPDA. Recently, it announced the new M70 smartphone on its Web site.
The machine is advertised to be supporting push email - one of the reasons the Austrian carrier T-Mobile refused to carry the Treo 600 (met the product manager in […]

Tam Hanna of TamsPalm writes:
Almost every Palm OS5 device can play a variety of audio files. My Treo 600 is no exception… but it lacks a media player. A basic version of NormSoft’s PocketTunes ships with all new handhelds - let’s look at how the Deluxe version fares.
PocketTunes’ main screen can be customized with a […]

As PalmOS handhelds get more and more connected to the Internet, the idea of using them as mobile HTML editors gets more and more feasible. DragonEdit is the only dedicated HTML editor for PalmOS - let’s see what it can do.
DragonEdit is an editor that seems to be based on a technology similar to Tejp […]

People who listen to demo scene radio stations like Nectarine probably know the MOD format. A mod file is basically a midi file that brings its samples along and thus sounds the same everywhere (German readers probably still remember T.W.Geuting’s Treo 600 experience).
Movemento is a demo of the Modula game engine developed and marketed by […]

Much has changed in the last two years in my life… thanks also to TamsPalm readers and Tamoggemon Customers! However, one thing has stayed constant: my PDA. My trusty Tungsten T3 served me well and honestly… but now, the Palm Treo 600 has replaced it as my first PDA. Let’s look at why I changed.
Basically, […]

I explicitly checked with Katrina… this time, it’s a true magnesium case Palm hard cases made of metal always were built out of aluminum so far - Proporta now offers magnesium cases from InnoPocket for selected mobile devices like my Treo 600. While the weight loss doesn’t really affect me, this is still one of […]

Just when you thought that there couldn’t possibly be another thumb-style keyboard available for the Palm, I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong! Seiko Instruments, Inc. has its own thumb board for the Palm V/Vx, m500, m505, and m515 that has been conveniently named the Thumboard. I was sent the m505 version to review.
When […]

Leather cases were considered the ’suit version’ of aluminum hard cases for a long time - Proporta’s aluminum-lined leather technique has changed that. But let’s see how the case fares in a review:
Proporta’s case ships in a classic blister for leather cases. A belt clip is contained, too.
The case itself looks cool, although the leather […]

If you’ve ever tried to read an Excel spreadsheet report on a mobile device - you know what a challenge it can be. While mobile devices such as BlackBerry, Pocket PC, and Treo can display Excel spreadsheet reports - their small screens and limited controls makes viewing the data difficult at best. […]

If you are one of the approximately 35 million fans of American Idol in the United States, this may come as very good news to you! Most watch the show, and enjoy the top 10 sing their hearts out. However, the show is just 120 minutes long - that means you have to wait a […]

Every PalmOS programmer should be familiar with the concept of creator IDs and also on how to obtain them!
Registering creator IDs is a fast process - and many of us push it to the time when the RC is under test. The logic behind is simple - a program can exist without a creator ID, […]

Altough Handango will not be a distribution partner for my wares much longer due to the new realtime system that collides with my DRM system, it still serves one very important function once a year: it posts its yardstick documents.
Those papers cover trends in mobile application business, how prices change, which categories were hot… our […]

Skype owns - face it. Although Skype still doesn’t exist for Palm OS, a Windows 2000 box makes a nice phone for talking with Palm OS users and developers! IceMat (IceMat Black second edition review on TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog) sent us its Siberia Headset!
The headset arrived in a huge, impressive box. There […]

People asked me about software compatibility (what works, and more important, what doesn’t work) a few times over the last few days. Thus, I decided to create this compatibility list - feel free to post your own working apps as anonymous comments!