New Palm Pictures? 234
New Palm writes "It looks like pictures of a new Palm os5 device codenamed 'Oslo' have hit the web. www.pocketpcthought.com had them up, but after a phonecall from Palm's Director of Global Information Security, pulled the pictures. A number of people are mirroring them. Looks semi-legit - but who knows, and who knows how long the images will stay up?
Looks like a minipalm. (Score:4, Interesting)
This might swell well in Japan where smaller is seen as better, but it seems more likely to stay on the shelves in the US for average consumers.
Apple iPod/Palm hybrid? (Score:4, Interesting)
PalmOS 5 is a non-event (Score:3, Interesting)
Most likely a fake (Score:3, Interesting)
First off, they pretty much told everyone that new product releases would slow to a crawl for a bit. Two reasons for this. One is that they have a LOT of inventory they want to discount and move. Sitting on inventory is bad. The other reason is that PalmOS 5 just got out of beta and released to licensees on June 10th. Don't forget that PalmOS and Palm Hardware operate as seperate entities, therefore the hardware group gets treated just like any other licensee.
I seriously doubt that Palm would release another device using the older OS as long as they are sitting on product.
Just my $.02...
--Jon
Collapse (Score:4, Interesting)
Not that I have ever been all that productive with graphiti.
Re:picture mirror (Score:1, Interesting)
How do you know if you're at the cap?
Re:A couple of points (Score:2, Interesting)
My PocketPC is pretty well scratched up on the input area, so I've switched back to my old PalmIII which fared much better and got vastly more use. Might invest in a nicer one, but that hard area is a good idea... don't knock it...
Re:PalmOS 5 is a non-event (Score:2, Interesting)
No way. (Score:2, Interesting)
Second, this is obviously manipulated in photoshop by an amateur. The edges are too sharp between the handheld and the cloud background; on the other side, the screen is not retouched at all -- there is glare on it and what look like fingerprints. Ergoo... it is manipulated, but by an amateur.
Why this isn't a Pshop job (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Why doen' (Score:3, Interesting)
Spreadsheets--at last, we have a way to navigate intuitively, up-down as well as left-right.
Image display--obvious use is navigating and selecting thumbnails
Options and Preferences--navigating tabs and operating various kinds of controls.
Gosh I'm too tired to think this morning but probably there are hundreds of other potential applications. Overall this seems like a positive development that adheres more or less to the K.I.S.S. philosophy.
It's a fake (Score:2, Interesting)
game-playing on PDAs (Score:3, Interesting)
Red Jade lost funding and died in the big crash of 2000, but it was a fun ride while it lasted.
Re:PalmOS 5 is a non-event (Score:1, Interesting)
For those who don't know:
This guy was one of the developers of Liberty, a commercial Gameboy emulator for PalmOS. Unfortunatly, he spent more time figuring out how to keep people from ripping him off than he did on making the emulator useful. For a long time he hung around #pdawarez on EfNet as |HaCkMe| learning about how PalmOS apps were cracked.
Well of course, Liberty was cracked and ardiri here got pissy and released a new version (this one had sound..oooooo). But, at the same time, he released a "crack" for the application which was actually a PalmOS trojan that would nuke all of the apps on your Palm. He made all sorts of excuses after releasing it, even tried to claim releasing it was an "accident" and saying it would be "professional suicide" to release something like this to the public. Newsflash Ardiri: Professionals don't write trojans.
Anyway, take what this guy says with a very large grain of salt. He's a proven liar and trojan coder. Don't believe me? Aaron, don't even bother trying to deny or refute this. Google's cache of the SANS advisory [216.239.35.100], the cache because otherwise you have to register to view it.
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