Take TapWave, for example, which produces the Palm OS-based Zodiac handheld showed initial promise.
Apple is due to release its latest OS - Mountain Lion - in late summer 2012.
Some analysts say Palm OS-based products, such as the 700p, may appeal more to consumers.
Sony's latest Palm OS-based PDA cuts out a few features, but also trims its price.
Google has revealed its first Chrome Os-powered notebook, to be called the Cr-48, according to trustedreviews.com.
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In addition, Google will soon launch its own tablets into this segment, as will makers of Microsoft-OS-based tablets.
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The announcement last week of the latest version of the Mac OS--christened Mac OS X--doesn't offer much hope for the future either.
About 5 million Palm OS-based devices will ship in the same year, up from an estimated 2.9 million in 1999, House said.
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Mac experts, for instance, can be seen using keystrokes and multi-touch gestures to move from app to app and trigger other OS-level actions.
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It was a concept that didn't totally work -- at least not with that OS -- and indeed, Lenovo's long since discontinued it.
In fact, Microsoft has extended its mainstream support of the server OS -- previously set to expire on July 9th, 2013 -- through January 15th, 2015.
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Interestingly, the updated app even includes a direct button to email Apple's CEO Tim Cook so that users can advocate for a more native OS-level integration of Fleksy.
But, with Apple offering its own solution and Google breaking Maps free from the OS-update chains, it's facing a more difficult landscape in which to make its mark.
But without a splashy new OS-driven feature like Siri in 2011 and FaceTime in 2010, the iPhone 5 relied on its larger, but not wider, screen and LTE connectivity to drive growth.
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The 925 model also sports an 4.5-inch AMOLED screen, so while it matches the resolution of the existing 920 (1, 280 x 768), those on-screen blacks -- a regular occurrence with the Windows Phone OS -- should be notably deeper than the LCD competition.
Now, before you read on, do bear in mind that some of its features -- especially the OS -- may not make it to the final design when it comes out later this year, nor do we know what stage this prototype was at.
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But then you have to consider the limitations of the Chrome OS - it's great if your life is in the "Cloud" and you want an always-online machine whose main function is email, web surfing and social media, but limited if you want to use other applications.
Even apps are tracking that way: Tweetie, one of the most popular Twitter apps, debuted for the iPhone before it was available for Mac OS. Now we need to bring some OS-level innovations back to the PC desktop and take personal computing to the next level as well.
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It talks with iChat and with Mail, Apple's new e-mail program, and will also work with Palm OS-based handheld computers, like those from Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ), Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) or Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ).
Obviously, that's the premiere feature of the new release, but the software has also been retooled to mesh more with the look and feel of the OS -- there's even a cover flow-like contact window -- and a new pop-out call control bar that can be moved anywhere on the screen or be kept open while in another program.
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Whitman says their view is that they now have the opportunity to compete in a multi-form factor, multi-OS, multi-chipset world.
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As ASUS' dual-OS prototype all-in-one is the only (sort of) tablet we've seen with roughly that many inches, we assume the company is getting paperwork done before a proper launch at CES 2013.
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But rapper K-os went home empty-handed, despite being nominated five times.
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Now, the chart doesn't contain a ton of additional information that would help put it in context -- a specific time period in 2007 would be nice, as would and driver and OS versions -- but we've been hearing about NVIDIA issues with Vista from the start, and this seems to confirm it.
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The computer company lets loose its first major upgrade for OS X--and it has teeth.
But as yet there's no OS X-friendly version of QuarkXPress, a lynchpin application of the publishing world.
Crooks have developed a new Mac OS X-specific Trojan that mimics the behaviour of a legitimate software installer.
And it matters to Microsoft that buyers are turning in ever greater numbers to OS X-, iOS-, and Android-based devices.
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