But it makes sense that someone should bring the Palm OS into the handheld gaming act.
Take TapWave, for example, which produces the Palm OS-based Zodiac handheld showed initial promise.
The Zodiac has quite simply the best display we've ever seen on a Palm OS device.
The new interface may put off those used to the standard Palm OS interface.
The company also has no plans to develop Palm OS for other systems, he says.
We've noted before that Palm OS devices have started to climb both in functionality and price.
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.
PDAs with the Palm OS accounted for just 18.8% of all PDAs, compared with 45.7% for Windows.
One of the first companies to license the Palm OS was Handspring, founded by former Palm executives.
It makes this shift easily, and Palm OS applications also adjust to it easily as your preferences dictate.
Its plans for a Palm OS device go in an entirely different direction.
The 700p also marks Palm's return to its traditional Palm OS operating system.
Graffiti is only available for devices that use Palm OS, 3Com's outstanding and highly intuitive operating system for handheld devices.
This is quite possibly the first Palm OS device that you may have to pry out of your kids' hands.
And like the other PDAs using Palm OS 5, it will play MP3 music files and can record voice notes.
Set to start shipping in June, the Meazura handheld will run Palm OS 4.1 and will have 16 megabytes of memory.
With gaming controls on either side, there is no mistaking this Palm OS handheld for anything other than a gaming platform.
Then Palm Inc. created PalmSource as a subsidiary, focused on the Palm OS, before spinning it off as a public company.
The company continued to focus on basic Daytimer-like features in the Palm OS, while multifunction, Internet-connected devices were what customers clamored for.
The Palm Pilot started life as an appliance, but Palm OS would grow to a platform in order to drive new functionality.
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About 5 million Palm OS-based devices will ship in the same year, up from an estimated 2.9 million in 1999, House said.
Sony's latest Clie handheld lets the newest Palm OS strut its stuff.
"It's likely that since PalmSource was just taken out, one place the Palm OS would go would be low-end phones and PDAs, " says Kalla.
F-Secure also offers protection against the Palm OS Phage.963 virus and the Palm Liberty Trojan, both of which have come to the public's attention.
In the second quarter of 2004, 41.8% of all PDAs shipped worldwide were loaded with the Palm OS, compared with 36.6% with Windows, according to Gartner.
It offered the first Palm OS devices with removable storage, the first devices that could play back audio and video, and the first high-resolution color devices.
That distraction (and Palm OS' failure to advance) forced Palm to rebuild in much the same way that Microsoft has with Windows Phone 7 and RIM with QNX.
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