03-02-2004, 04:00 AM
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Dig Into Palm OS 6
http://www.palmos.com/dev/dl/dl_tool...tor/index.html
If you are willing to register as a developer, you can download the Palm OS 6 emulator. One of the comments I've heard is OS 6 still doesn't have true multitasking. On a Pocket PC, you can open a contact, start filling in the form, then switch to another app and switch back to the contact form to continue entry. This is especially useful if that other app contains the contact info you are getting, like an email.
According to this PalmInfoCenter comment from hotpaw4, who was at the Palm Dev Conference, clarifies this. Unless the app is specifically written to save the app state, it won't allow you to switch back and forth.
I'm sorry guys, but that isn't multitasking. Say what you want about the Pocket PC, I can take a 5 year old ARM application that was written for the Jornada 820 and ignoring the messed up UI that was designed for a 640X480 HPC Pro screen, it will still work (assuming it isn't looking for specific HPC APIs) on a modern Pocket PC and multitask just fine. I've done it on a 2002 device with the old HPC Terminal Server client before Microsoft released a downloadable client for the 2002 upgraded devices. This whole deal of a background thread that will allow email to still download but you have to relaunch the email UI (thus closing whatever you are in now) is going to be... sigh. I give up. Palm has been on this road that they have the ultimate paradigm and for some reason, they are incapable of either admitting that multitasking in today's connected society is a necessity or incapable of developing a true multitasking OS without starting from ground zero and discarding their old application base. Before anyone jumps on me for ranting, look at the market share numbers. Pocket PC and Windows Mobile is a much larger share of the market today than they were then the iPAQ 3600 was originally released in 2000. That means someone else is losing share.
It has also been reported that OS 6 still doesn't allow you to assign more than one category to a record :roll:, and those of you with a Tungsten T3 may be a bit disappointed with the PIM apps. They are more advanced than OS5 but not quite as advanced as the T3 customizations PalmOne did.
I've also seen comments about the very slow startup of the OS. Be realistic though. You should never to performance tests on an emulator. I've got to believe that OS6 devices will be at least as fast as OS5 devices.
Anyway, I thought some of you would be very interested in playing with this.
Oh yeah. Dave Beauvais sent me this link advertising a PDA, which will probably be gone in a few days. Notice that device in the lower right corner? It has a picture on the screen. That must be what the Zire wants to be when it grows up. An iPAQ. :lol:
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03-02-2004, 04:06 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Now if that isn't a advertising fubar I have no idea what one is. Maybe that could be Palmone's new ad slogan... "What we want to be when we grow up..."
Hey what can I say, it an :idea:
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03-02-2004, 04:11 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 38
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Holy cra*p! no multitasking still?
this means that Palm devices are literally being 'out-featured' by cellphones. What a waste.
They must be having a total brain freeze over there.
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03-02-2004, 04:25 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Sad indeed. MS is coming out with dynamic landscape soon as well. The gap is widening ever faster. WTF is Palm thinking. :roll:
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03-02-2004, 04:28 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 275
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Re: Dig Into Palm OS 6
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Notice that device in the lower right corner? It has a picture on the screen. That must be what the Zire wants to be when it grows up. An iPAQ. :lol:
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Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Uhurmm... Ehem....
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Man... those guys who makes this kinds of advertisement posters really cracks me up! Maybe it's really a video that shows what the device can't do on a PalmOS. Or a CompUSA propaganda to tease this new owners to go back to their store and buy a Pocket PC device ;-) ;-)
Hahahahahaha
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03-02-2004, 04:33 AM
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03-02-2004, 04:33 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
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No multitasking, no multiple categories for an item, yep, Palm OS 6 is a killer :twisted: .
BTW, beyond a lot of wishes we all have for WM2004 or WM2003 SP1 I would like to add one, 'AND' filtering categories, that'd be powerful.
Regards.
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03-02-2004, 04:36 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Wow how can one still buy a Palm when there is no multi-tasking. How come a brand-new 2004 palm device cannot do what a 1994 newton could do?
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03-02-2004, 04:46 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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More bashing. :roll: At this rate I won't be suprised to see Partita/Inktoo/Ska's postings on the front page.
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03-02-2004, 04:48 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by Ben Stark
Sad indeed. MS is coming out with dynamic landscape soon as well. The gap is widening ever faster. WTF is Palm thinking. :roll:
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I can't help but wonder if this lack of true multitasking is a sign of the real limitation of the Palm OS. They have come out with some really good units like the T3, the Tungsten C as well as the Sony's UX50, but the OS does nothing to improve the operation of these devices. I would have thought with thier takeover of BEOS a few years back that they would have come out with a real rocking OS by now.
BEos was one of the first "Open Source" operating systems that I tried and liked. It was user friendly, easy to use and really didn't take up alot of space on a hard drive. Heck I have BEOS loaded on my old Compaq laptop and it's fun to play around with when I am annoyed with Windows.
Well this lack of innovation by Palm is what made me come over from the "dark" side.
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