Palm OS 5 Will Be Up to Three Times Faster Than OS 4

If Palm wasted a lot of time on OSLO and decided to drop it, that might explain why they are a bit behind schedule. But I expected Sony to have something out within a month of PalmSource finishing OS 5. Don't they realize the first one out of the gate will have a huge advantage?

On the other hand, I'd rather they take their time and do it right rather than just dumping something half baked on the market.

How many future customers is Palm going to piss off before it steps up to the plate and says – ok here is version 1 of the new Palm and it will be released on this date.

Former Palm fan.

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You bitch when Palm announces products to early and you bitch when they don't.. For pete sake, shut UP!

I think the PDA market will get the biggest shock of their lives (go down in history) if Palm was to deliver on time.

Even knowing this, people still get pissed off. We all know that the new Palm device is NOT just around the corner, there will a multitude of OS5 devices by other manufacturers before Palm will be able to actually get their devices on the shelves. And of course the true loyal fans (as myself) go and buy one on pre order, and guess what? 3 months later an update with more memory, brighter etc, same price, same predicament as the m505 buyers(as myself), just not worth the upgrade, another $1000 Aus. Once again loyal customer get burnt.

Palm better hope to hell that Sony never put an SD slot on their devices, otherwise bye bye.

Palm might add some multimedia features but you KNOW Sony will. Entertainment is right there in the CLIE name.

I hope everyone doesn't emphasize multimedia at the expense of size and battery life, as all PPC devices and some Sony ones do. I don't want to watch movies on my handheld, I don't even do that on my laptop. I have a TV. I want the faster speed but I also want something not too much bigger than a Palm V.

Easy.

At least 1/2 of these are just wanting to run POSE with different roms.

Then cut it in half again to cover those who are just playing around with the tools.

Then double the number of apps to take into account that many of them are
custom in-house only apps.

This gives roughly a 2:1 ratio between developers and apps.

Todd.

Uh huh. Right after they get their color combinations jiberish resolved, we'll see if it takes "full advantage."

How can you take full advantage of a 32bit processor that addresses well over 256MB of RAM with an OS that doesn't allow you to multitask, much less multithread?

LOL! No kidding. Here is what you wrote:

>Unlike the neandrathals at M$, Palm came
>up with the idea of HAL (hardware abstraction
>layer) - which each CPU manufacture writes to
>optimize there particular variety of ARM chip
>(XScale is ARM btw) for the OS. M$ shortsitedly
>hardcoded optimization for 1 chip - StrongARM - into
>the OS. Thus the whole XScale problem we've been
>hearing about in the PPC camp.

MS uses a HAL too. the PPC isn't hardcoded to the StrongARM, it is coded to ARM. The new HP 928 WDA Pocket PC 2002 Phone selling in Europe runs on a TI OMAP *ARM* processor, not StrongARM. The X-Scale issue is an optimization issue, like moving from a PIII to a PIV. Remember that until Intel fixed some the the PIII emulation issues how many PIII's would blow the doors off of a PIV? No, of course you don't. You were too busy reading the Zen paperwork.

Dragonball is based on 68000, CISC-type processor which require multiple clock to run single instruction. ARM, is RISC by name, required only one clock to run one instruction. At the same clock speed, supposely, ARM should run faster than Dragonball.

Newer version of ARM could run multiple instruction in single clock. So, it should be way faster than Dragonball. Same as PowerPC 1GHz perform better than Pentium 2GHz.