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Monday January 5, 2009
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The biggest cell phone story of this week's upcoming CES show, Palm's new Nova operating system and phone have remained startlingly unleaked. There are no spy shots out on the Web, no product sheets, not even a carrier name. For something that Palm's been working on for years, this is information control worthy of Apple.
(I'm assuming Palm will announce Nova and a phone at their press conference on Jan. 8, but so is everybody else. Palm hasn't confirmed that they're making the announcement, but if they don't, they're toast.)
We do know a bunch of things about Nova, though, and we can speculate on others. Here's what we know so far.
I also think it's pretty safe to guess what carrier will get the Nova phone first: Sprint. I have no inside information, but Sprint has been Palm's best friend in hard times. Every single Palm phone that was first introduced with a US carrier since May 2006 has been launched with Sprint.
Since the Treo 650 in 2004, Palm has released ten smartphones: the 650, 700w, 700p, 700wx, 680, 750, 755p, Centro, 800w and Treo Pro. Seven were initially launched with US carriers; the 750 was first launched overseas, and the 680 and Treo Pro were launched without US carriers attached. Of the seven initially launched with US carriers, Sprint got six first.
But what will the phones look like? How about the OS? Am I even right about Sprint? Make sure to check back here on Gearlog on Jan. 8, when all will be revealed.
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January 5, 2009 3:49 PM
I'm surely gonna be paying attention to this story.
I own a Treo 650 that I bought 4 years ago and I'm still carrying that around. I just love the Palm OS stability, functionality and interface and wouldn't change it... but with Palm OS being the exact same thing for the last 5 years, I've been flirting with the idea of getting a Nokia phone with Symbian on it; but haven't quite decided that because of the lack of touchscreen.
I hope this is at least a decent upgrade to the Palm OS and it'll finally give me the excuse to throw my Treo 650 to the 'good memories' drawer. We'll see.
January 5, 2009 3:49 PM
I'm surely gonna be paying attention to this story.
I own a Treo 650 that I bought 4 years ago and I'm still carrying that around. I just love the Palm OS stability, functionality and interface and wouldn't change it... but with Palm OS being the exact same thing for the last 5 years, I've been flirting with the idea of getting a Nokia phone with Symbian on it; but haven't quite decided that because of the lack of touchscreen.
I hope this is at least a decent upgrade to the Palm OS and it'll finally give me the excuse to throw my Treo 650 to the 'good memories' drawer. We'll see.
January 6, 2009 7:06 PM
I had a Treo 600, 650, and 700P, and 2 palm devices prior to that. I've had my HTC Touch Pro for about a month now, and I look back at how simple and slow the Palm was. But Windows is shiny and slick, and multi-tasks! I miss the buttons, and the keyboard was better, but smaller.
Don't forget about bluetooth stereo. Even the I-Phone and G phone don't support it, but Windows mobile does. Palm tries with a third party software that makes the treo crash more often.
My Windows phone crashes only slightly less than a 700P, and it was slow...
Palm is too little, too late for me. Windows is alive, and has developers. Palm is R.I.P.