Brighthand has published an article summarizing many of the rumors that are afloat regarding Palm OS 6. Much of the upgrade will help to open many of the constraints that have existing with the OS, and to help it support business user's needs. Of particular interest to pdaPhone enthusiasts is that it will support roaming from GPRS or CDMA networks to Wi-Fi networks. I'm assuming that means that it will have good support for pdaPhone capabilities as well. We'd have to wonder if they will go the route of Microsoft and have a Palm OS "Phone Edition" or not.
Many of the existing Palm based pdaPhones have required the manufacturer and carrier to develop a lot of modifications to the device in order to integrate the telephone features. While this is not as clean as the approach Microsoft has given, it gives complete flexibility to the developer in how the implement it... and can lead to product differentiation. The flip side is that Microsoft's approach, while limiting the creativity of the implementation, ultimately provides more standardization and stability over the long term.
The article speculates that Palm OS 6 wouldn't be available until early next year (2004), which means we'd not likely see it in a pdaPhone until mid-2004.
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