but windows was growing and OS2 dieing at that time.
Now it is Linux that is growing and Palm Garnet that is basically dead.
This will be an incentive to all those Palm developers to go ahead and port their apps to us when they see them running on the 810.

That link is in direct violation of their EULA.

Presumably with all the excitement around this product, you'd be upset if it was removed due to rampant disregard for their licence terms? Thought you would...

just use Gmail, I received my mail in under 1 second

Actually, at that time OS/2 was brand spankin new and there was quite a bit of user interest and excitement about it. I'm talking early 90s here, OS/2 2.0 was just out and a year or so later, OS/2 Warp (3.0) was introduced. Ancient history true, but history does repeat itself.

As far as Linux growing, that's quite true, but how many developers are doing Hildonized apps?

JeffElkins > many developpers are leaving Palm OS plateform. Palm OS is really out dated, the sdk is peace of ****, need to make turnaround all the time.

An other example is Apple with Mac OS X and BootCamp, Mac OS X is still here

Warp already was a rescue attempt after OS/2 had initially failed. And as much as I liked some concepts in OS/2, it failed due to its flaws, not because of its 16 bit Windows compatibility - NT, which had a even greater compatibility layer and higher hardware requirements, eventually succeeded. Probably because they stole from VMS and Unix that time rather than let IBM (with precious little Mini and Workstation experience) reinvent the wheel from a mainframe perspective.

As far as Linux is concerned, it is a open system and can concurrently run software based on many different UI and API libraries - and so far, not even Windows VMs have had any negative impact. If any, hildonization of apps could be slowed down by the addition of a keyboard and USB OTG on the N810, which makes using vanilla Gnome and KDE apps more feasible.

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sweet! this means I can use Docs To Go to open and edit MS Word and excel files!

Wow This really is cool If the syncing part works with Macintosh over BT I am really really happy

The calendar app that came pre installed looks like crap but does the trick. A fullscreen would be nice thou.

in 770 version for OS2006 there is no sound, N800 version seems to work in OS2007 hacker edition including sound. Tried Bejeweled and it is painfully slow both with or without sound. Let's hope they will improve it a bit. Also stuff with native arm code (armlets) crashes the VM, tried Legacy game (crashes at startup) and Plucker viewer with SysZLib as armlet and it crashes randomly when reading compressed books.

Gnumeric already does a vastly superior job on Excel files - and the next major release of Abiword will presumably kill Docs To Go stone dead as well.

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