Comments on: Palm 3.5 Upgrade Now Available
This is the first time Palm has charged for an upgrade. "Typically what you have seen in a Palm upgrade has been very incremental," said John Cook, senior director for consumer product marketing. "We think we have added a lot more value."
Why Palm took so long to make this upgrade available is still a mystery. It has been shipping on new Palms since February and the much talked about memory leak was cleared up in August.
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RE: Developer version?
Upgrading
I have the PalmV, but was upgraded to 8mb. I was wondering if I can use the upgrade from their download site thats is stating its for PalmVx???? has anyone try it yet????!?!?!?!
johnlo
RE: Upgrading
as for the difference between dr4? i doubt there is any.. they include the update352.prc when the install is done - so i suspect its just the same :)
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RE: Upgrading
2) So if it fail on you.. i guess the only solution is to buy the CD for the upgrade. is it worth the $15????
RE: Upgrading
1. I am saddened by the great delay in the release of the Upgrade, but glad that it is finally here and, more importantly, available as a seperate product unto itself from the Internet Connectivity Kit.
2. The Palm Vx owners get the upgrade free because Palm switched OSes in the middle of the sale of Vx's. I myself am one who was stuck with a Vx with OS 3.3. I paid the same as the next guy (actually more!), but didn't get everything that was advertised. The other models had been discontinued at this point and were never shipping with 3.5. Supporting older hardware with newer software does create support issues with costs money, hence the charge to the older Palm users.
3. I think the cost is a little high at $20 for the CD, but if you realize that they are not limiting the number of devices an individual can upgrade with the CD, the "profit" to Palm goes down dramatically. 1 person buys it, and 5 of his friends will wind up using it also (not ethically, of course). You will probably have the same number of people "copy" the upgrade as you would have had at a $5 a CD price. It just factors in a perceived piracy level, unfortunately. They may also be taking into consideration the number of people that they figure will NOT COMPLETELY READ THE INSTRUCTIONS and require calls to Palm to fix things after they have removed they Palm from the cradle in the middle of the flash or other such easily avoidable mistakes.
4. Visors cannot be upgraded in this fashion because they do not have Flash memory. This is a downside to the Visor, but the lack of Flash memory also helps keep the cost down and makes a consistent user base in all Visors of one type. How many Palm III's out there will be running OS 3.0, 3.1, 3.3 or 3.5 and how incompatible is some of the software with each OS? Handspring creates a forced consistency.
These are my 4 cents, you are free to disagree or agree among yourself.
Rusty
RE: Visor
3.52 hangs up
RE: 3.52 hangs up
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Plenipotentiary
Palm Infocenter
Why should we pay?!
Upgrade doesn't work with Belkin USB serial adapter for MAC
If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to email me at ibulldog36@hotmail.com. Thanks.
Flash the 3.5 rom on PalmV ?
Anyone tried this ?
Will OS 3.5 be compatible with installed S/w on IIIX?
...pay for OS upgrade ????
I've had OS 3.5 on my Palm IIIx for months and months!
RE: I've had OS 3.5 on my Palm IIIx for months and months!
Thx
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JM
OS 3.5 "Upgrade"
IR Hotsync, Euro
I've been doing IR hotsync for months! I only went back to the cradle when i couldn't grok Linux's IR drivers.
The handspring visor is looking better every day.
RE: IR Hotsync, Euro
i am trying to get IR Hotsync to work with my palm V OS3.3
Yoiu say, that you have done this?
HOW ???
Please email me on bilgrav@image.dk
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Developer version?