Palm Pre OS, Living in the Cloud

Yesterday I indicated that the new Palm OS would have support for the thousands of legacy applications. The actual answer is more like yes and no. The yes part of the answer is that palm supports having third parties write new applications which will emulate the old applications. There will soon be an SDK available for developers to use to write applications. The "no" part of the answer is the new OS is built on a totally different set of assumptions.

The new Palm OS with its always on connection is designed to be able to access information from where ever it is stored. Meaning that it is not necessary to physically store the information on the device itself. Legacy applications built for previous Palm systems will not be supported directly by Palm itself. You can find more information here: http://developer.palm.com/

For those who have depended on an SD card for back-up (in fear of a hard reset possibility) the ability to retrieve and replace information is now supplied by the internet. Leaving the physical storage to other devices more suited for the job. Here is a quote from Matt Crowley, product manager at Palm.
This quote was taken from his responses on a Facebook forum

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Matt Crowley (Palm) wrote on January 21, 2009 at 9:48pm
Great questions. Thanks for getting involved and sharing your excitement about Palm Pre.

Okay, let me get into some of these questions and comment. Some I can answer, some I can’t. Some you won’t like, some you will. I will do my best here. But whatever the case I do appreciate your input and it does matter.

microSD:
"Design" was the highest goal on the Palm Pre project. The phone has to look and function great in the hand and up against the face on a call. The decision to include or not include expandable storage is an easy one when design is the highest priority. The physical size of the device would have been compromised if we added another physical component to Pre. Just a millimeter can seriously impact the curvature of the design in a way that minimizes the design intent. We wanted to maintain a slick curved slider design without building out too much thickness. When you look at the two parts of the product and see how thin they really are, you may be amazed that we were able to fit everything in. And yes, all the stuff does fit.

The other advantage of embedded memory is that you have a large amount of storage out of the box for media and files. Including 8GBs of storage on the phone is a large amount of storage for many people, but not all. Yes, not all. We know that not everyone will be happy, but that is one of many decisions that needs to be made and the product goals help define these decisions.

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The Palm Pre is the latest model from a long line of successful personal digital assistants (PDA’s).  Beginning with the first model the Palm Pilot, which was developed to replace pen and paper and provide a place to store names, addresses and appointments to the full fleged micro computer and phone we have today.  As the palm pilot increased in popularity numerous third party applications became available.  The new palm pre has been developed using javascript and html programming and future third party for the Pre are already being announced.

Software Palm Pda/ Treo

If you are looking to buy software for the Palm PDA or Treo then you may be surprised by how many options are available. However, making sure you get the best deal has become increasingly difficult; especially when there are so many options to choose from. If you are unsure of exactly what you need, then a great idea is to firstly read reviews and find out what other people are buying and what kind of experience they have.

One great way to do this is to search blogs and review websites for information on the latest Palm PDA and Treo software. Find out what people are buying, how they are finding the software works, and where they are buying it from. With so much software available, it can be hard to keep track of the latest releases and to know when a specific release has become outdated. There is new music software, DVD software, educational software and games released all the time, so finding a good source of regular information can be very beneficial for those that want to take advantage of the options that are available in the marketplace.

Once you have decided on a specific palm treo software product or pda software product, it is now time to find the best prices and most reliable provider. One great to do this is to go to a shopping comparison website. Not only will this give you an opportunity to come across a wide array of providers in one place, but you will also get an idea of the prices that they offer. From there you should also segment the retailers who offer the shipping options and payment options that you are looking for.

After you have created a short-list of potential suppliers, you should then try and find out if any of them are offering special deals that you can take advantage of. Go through every retailer and look on their website to see if they have any discounts available. If they do not, then you should consider visiting a coupon website and look to see if you can pick up any deals form the merchants that you have short listed. You could also try typing a search into Google such as retailer name + promo code. From there you should be able to work out what the price will be once you discount any coupon codes that are available. Now you will be able to find the cheapest retailer and give them your business! However keep in mind that price should not be the only factor when shopping for software products online. You should also find out about their return policy in the case that you do not receive the product that you were expecting.

When buying software for the Palm Treo and Palm PDA you have to pay particular attention to ensuring that it is compatible with your particular model. That is why a generous return policy can be advantageous. In the case that you cannot get this, be sure to be rigorous in your research in order to ensure that you do not end up out of pocket.

By: Wolfgang Schmuck

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