Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Free PalmOS Emulator for Nokia Internet Tablets

Thanks to Stefan at IntoMobile again, we get the tip that ACCESS will be offering a PalmOS Garnet virtual machine available on the 770, N800 and N810. This confuses me a bit. Perhaps Nokia wanted to get a huge application compatibility influx on the tablet. Perhaps ACCESS feels the death throes of the PDA but still wants to keep their OS alive.

In any event: It's good for us Tableteers. More fun for us! The long-awaited PDA features will come to the tablets with all the richness, experience, and style of Palm OS. While the business model confuses the heck out of me, I'm pleased.

6 comments:

andrew said...

Looking at the whitepaper, it seems to be a technology demonstration for their Linux platform; targetting ISVs, OEMs and other third parties.

Selling to end-users seems to be a piffling triviality compared with what their business model actually is.

Good for us (although I never found a Palm app I actually liked... now, an EPOC R5 VM - I'd pay money for that!)

David said...

You can already download a Beta now - and to think I left the N770 at home today... I'll try in the evening. I just hope it's a 5.x emulator so it does color.

As for EPOC - oh yes. All that goodness of a S5 or a S7... Mmm... the Agenda software is still the bext ever.

wahlau said...

i've tried it on the N800, and i assume it is a 5.x emulator - got colour and can even hide hand-writing region.

could not get Agendus to work, but i assume some will work. But i do hope they will be able to support bigger size... else it would be really funny to see it occupying not even 50% of the gorgeous N800 screen!

Dwight said...

Yes! Now we can read copyrighted e-books. I had decided not to buy the N-810, but this will tip the scales in favor of making the purchase.

Peter Brewer said...

Nice its garnett so it is indeed 5.x, shame it doesn't support the more update address book and calendar apps (these were developed by palm not access) however its nice to see what could be done - a solution to the pim nightmare should be available soon. I wonder what the chances are of symbian getting the same kinda treatment... can always dream i guess.

Mark said...

This should be fun to try out.
I am a sucker for trying different things on my tablet.
This got me thinking. and sorry if this is a stupid question. But is there any way to install windows mobile version on the tablet. I would love to just mess around with it.