Comments on: The Palm OS Cobalt Phones That Never Were
In addition to the Cobalt editorial the article has three high-resolution product sheets from Singapore's Oswin Technology. The images showcase two Cobalt-based smartpohones that never saw the light of day even in their native Asian markets. While a bit chunky and unstylish by today's standards (especially the "Slide ID" flagship), the phones' specifications list is still impressive today, besting all of Palm's current offerings in several areas such as a large portrait 2.8" LCD and a 3 megapixel camera with flash along with hardware-assisted MPEG-4 encoding and decoding.
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RE: What? My Dell X50p Works Great
PDA's Past and Present:
Palm TX (Number 2)
Palm - IIIxe, Vx, M500, M505, Tungsten T, TX
Handspring - Edge, Platinum, Deluxe
Sony - SJ22
Casio-EM500
Apple - MP110, MP2000, MP2100
RE: What? My Dell X50p Works Great
Boy, Cobalt must have really been a dog because everybody was loading up early on. Sony just abandoned the market and the others dissapeared. Remember, the "13 devices by years end" quote by the CEO. Ugggggh.
Pat Horne
RE: What? My Dell X50p Works Great
Agreed. I run a Cobalt skin on my T3. I even still had the Cobalt simulator running on my PC up until not long ago.
the iPhone that could have been
RE: the iPhone that could have been
I spent time with it on the simulator and wrote some code using the APIs - I thought it was a great improvement over the old Palm OS from a development perspective.
Cynics like TVOR spent a lot of time on messageboards back then insulting the PalmSource people (as in, directly insulting individual employees that were willing to discuss the OS on forums) and claiming that the failure was the technology. Bull. I'd take Cobolt from 3 years ago ANYDAY over the cringe-inducing Windows Mobile 6, the supposedly more 'advanced OS' because it has full multitasking and has the word 'Windows' in the title, but is slow as a dog (still!), has an god-awful UI. Sadly I don't have the choice if I want a newer, 'thriving' OS - so I am now using and developing for the Blackberry OS.
Oh well...
My palms
m105 x2(warranty) --> IIIc --> T3 x2(warranty) --> T3.5 --> iPod touch (in two weeks!)
*sob* Bye palm!
(Die a slow death Hotsync!)
unlocked 680 update
Yo, ACCESS: Give It Away!
Give out FREE COBALT!!
Some smart guy Out There will jigger a way we can put it on our PDAs.
RE: Yo, ACCESS: Give It Away!
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What? My Dell X50p Works Great
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PS - Still wondering if Access is going to get a hotsync update for Vista?
Pat Horne