Comments on: Beta SDHC Driver Released for Palm Handhelds

the explanation was posted in the 1src discussion.

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Software engineer at PalmPowerups.com
TH55/U + T|X2 + T|E2 + Zire 72 + Zire 31 + Visor Prism + WristPDA

Dmitry,

Would you be so kind as to post a link to that discussion either here or on the PalmPowerups page with the PalmSDHC announcement?

I can't find anything via Google, and 1src.com keeps timing out on me.

Thank you.

The idea is simple: I did not want to release a beta. People annoyed me a LOT over email, sending me emails with thousand copies of "please please please," so I said that if they want, they can purchase it now, but as a way to discourage them, priced it higher (a lesson frmo basic microeconomics). Now nobody can complain that it is not released, and my inbox is not being raped by thousands of emails full of "please".

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Software engineer at PalmPowerups.com
TH55/U + T|X2 + T|E2 + Zire 72 + Zire 31 + Visor Prism + WristPDA

Thanks very much for the clarification.

I'll definitely be buying a license once it's out of beta!

"I said that if they want, they can purchase it now, but as a way to discourage them, priced it higher (a lesson frmo basic microeconomics)."

It works. It is just like buying the first top of the line Ferrari or Ducati.

It is great to see smart entrepreneurs turn scrap into silk.

>>>my inbox is not being raped by thousands of emails full of "please".

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

(meant "service after the sale." Sorry, it's Monday...)

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**Another vote for a >100MB RAM Treo**

Great news! I'll buy it when it's out of beta.

I'm up for it. Send them a letter with this content :) I'll sign up for this, and i'm sure many others will too...

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Software engineer at PalmPowerups.com
TH55/U + T|X2 + T|E2 + Zire 72 + Zire 31 + Visor Prism + WristPDA

Dmitry;

Just out of curiosity, how hard (in a very brief summary) would it be to write a CLASSIC Graffiti 1 plug-in for OS 5.x devices, especially one that was stable for 320x480 devices?

I don't mean TealScript, I mean to replace the G2 libraries with G1 versions that is as fast & as accurate as the Tungsten T's Graffiti recognition was (the last & best Graffiti-enabled device yet).

@Poopie;

Great idea but Palm would NEVER "stoop" to that level. They'd say it was Access' responsibility and Access would say it's Palm's responsibility and everyone would just high-five each other and call themselves geniuses for bending over backwards to appease the wireless carriers so they don't have to deal with "customers" anymore.

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p

Fwiw, he made an app that removes the irritating delay in G2. Makes it slightly better...

http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg

didn't i see a post recently saying dmitry retired from palm os to focus on other endeavors?

p.s. when i hear that name, i always think of this movie -

Sean Ambrose: [disguised as Ethan Hunt] You keep calling me Dimitri. You really shouldn't.
Dr. Nekhorvich: You are not Dimitri?
[Ambrose knocks him out]
Sean Ambrose: No.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDxZGn4GiE

I thought I saw that "retirement" announcement too. Guess we're all in the boat that PalmOS is a tough OS to leave - where 'ya gonna go but down?

Just imagine if Dmitry or Shadowmite or any of the many competent and creative developers who LOVE the PalmOS had been given carte blanche to dream up and implement fixes, improvements and changes to the system over the past few years.

The "best and brightest" at Palm seem to be incapable of (or shackled by corporate from) lifting a finger to make the customer experience any better that it was at release. That is, unless a major publication or group of angry users can 'shame' Palm into it.

Palm's incentives to maintain or innovate nowadays seems to be driven *only* by the need to avoid bad publicity. No inspiration, little innovation, basically no sense of love and enjoyment of the device. I doubt that any one of the people with the power to make a decision there would take the trouble to carry around a prototype for a whole week and actually pay copious attention to size, weight, battery length, software interaction, etc. Too busy watching their stock options go down (or up?). Palm's dogpaddling in the market they once ruled has allowed all their competitors to make them a 'has been,' and even Apple has risen from the ashes of the Newton to grab a good portion of users who are tired of Palm's stagnation.

Heck, if this "Nova" is as vaporware as I expect (no more early adoption for me, Palm - tired of being your beta tester), I'd pay Dmitry or another competent developer an annual fee to maintain and release upgraded ROMs and such for the Treo 755 and previous devices. If you don't have a love for the Palm, then move aside and Palm should hire a few of the many that truly do - and let them loose.


Paying my annual PDA update tax to Palm since 1997.

For Treos & PDAs with a FAT32 driver standard, yes.

Here are the devices that ship with FAT32 standard by default (in chronological order of release):

LifeDrive
TX
Treo 700p
Treo 680
Treo 755p
Centro

You'll run into problems with the way Palm OS sees contiguous volume sizes over 4gb, as it'll report an 8GB card as 2 separate 4GB volumes. So if you have 5GB used on an 8GB card, Card Info will report 1GB used & 3GB free remaining. But the device will still be able to read all of the data on the card (although some apps are hit & miss when it comes to this). The biggies--CorePlayer, PTunes etc-should be fine.

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p

Palm doesn't WANT to fix the OS. They just want to sell as many Centros & 800w's as possible while spending as little money as possible for support or R&D.
And, of course hoarding as much cash as possible along the way. Makes 'em a much more attractive acquisition target, y'know.

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p