New Garnet VM Beta for Nokia Tablets

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Friday, May 29, 2009 12:56:51 PM

Garnet VM NokiaAccess has released a new update to its Palm OS Garnet VM for Nokia Internet Tablets running Maemo. Garnet VM Beta 4 (v1.03b) is mainly a maintenance release that includes some stability improvements and minor bug fixes.

The Garnet VM is a virtual machine that essentially acts as an emulator with the ability to run native Palm OS applications on the Nokia N770, N800 and N810 devices. It supports over 30,000 native software applications written for the Palm OS, including some of the most popular mobile applications on the market, such as Google Maps, Bejeweled, SnapperMail and Sudoku.

The Garnet VM runs compatible Palm OS applications with a 320 x 480 screen resolution. There are settings to change the default storage size, display configuration and storage heap. Basic versions of the Palm OS Garnet Address Book, Calculator, Date Book and Memo Pad are included. Users are able to install any Palm OS application and can configure compatibility per app (memory, display and device model).

Nokia Palm OS TabletThe Garnet VM for Nokia Internet Tablets also includes Graffiti 1 character recognition, TCP/IP Networking support, the ability to Network Hotsync and language support for English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

You can check out our earlier article with pictures and video demo of the first version of the Garnet VM released in Nov '07.

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Wow...

Dr. Jazz @ 5/30/2009 1:16:55 PM # Q
If I had known about this software when i still had my 650, i would never have gotten my755.

Waiting on the Pre is making me insane.

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