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RE: Please tell me what I'm missing here...
Interesting
humm excellent can we have a color Palm that uses GPRS.
and to all of you who debate this. B&W is dead and will be gone soon
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Scott
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When you have a Clie shoved up your mouth, you can only talk in vowels.
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Backward compatibility
Tip DS
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Don't expect hacks to work, however...
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"The new OS will still be able to run the majority of current applications, though there will be some exceptions, including applications that don't follow Palm's ground rules for developing apps."
Those who are turning a blind eye to this are just trolls looking for trouble.
Relax.
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If I don't explicitly state in every single article that mentions OS 5 that it will still be able to run the current crop of applications, someone always asks.
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Yes, and the vast majority of these people are trolls. Seriously, lighten your stress load and ignore these idiots.
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> off anonymous postings. Really, how many times have
> you seen a registered poster trolling?
Just because you disagree with a post doesn't make it a troll. Simply ignore the post and get on with your life. Those of us who come here for info and to hear the opinions of others don't need to see the constant name-calling from seasoned troll hunters like you. Relax. This is a Palm site. This isn't the real world, buddy.
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The Mysterious $50M Investor
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The trolls always have the last laugh...
Why TI?
Is it just me or is TI's webpage impossible to navigate. I couldn't really find any information on their processors on there. I did find a OMAP reference design and it seems like their processors top out at 120 MHz. Isn't that kind of slow compared to the current StrongARMs and even slower compared to the upcoming 400 MHz Intel XScales? And what ever happened to Motorola? Didn't Palm make an annoucement a while back saying it would work with Intel, Motorola and TI? The only reason I could see Palm going with TI over Intel, which has a better processor, or Motorola, who owns large stakes in the company and have a long history with as well as makes their compiler is they got the $50M from TI and have some deal for using their chips.
Don't you guys think everyone should the same processor? That way I could take my Palm flash Symbian on it or Linux or even god forbid WinCE if the mood struck me. This seems to work well on the desktop environment. What might be even neater is OS agnostic applications, using the OS as only a boot loader. Does anyone know if StrongARM is binary compatible with TI's OMAP and Motorola's Dragonball MX? I know they're all ARM but aren't they different flavors?
Do you think the other Palm licences will follow suit and use TI?
RE: Why TI?
Palm announced that they would be using TI's ARM-based chips for wireless devices. This makes some sense; TI has a lot of expertise making ARM-core chips that work with their wireless DSPs. This would enable things like a one-chip cell phone solution, where the cell phone CPU runs Palm OS and talks to an embedded DSP which handles the signal processing for the phone.
Their agreement wasn't exclusive. Palm can still get chips from other vendors if they're appropriate, and the other licensees haven't announced who they will be using. The whole Palm Ready program is designed to provide a number of different chips for different market segments.
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