It's not available yet and I'm not sure about leaving Palm OS for Windows Mobile, but at least it appears it's not just a smartphone. It has a touchscreen (and I assume a stylus) and it's running Windows Mobile 6 Professional (formerly Windows Mobile for Pocket PC Phone Edition) and not Windows Mobile Standard (formerly Windows Mobile for Smartphone) -- why does Microsoft keep renaming Windows CE every couple of years????
I don't know anything about GSM... One site says it's "Quad-Band GSM/EDGE and Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100 or 850/1700/2100" whatever that means.
Yup, this is a coming WM flipphone that *could* be good. Its the only flipphone on the horizon that runs WM/Pro (PPC). Being GSM though, I'd have to give up my great Sprint plan.
Also HTC Touch, announces today, is of interest to me. Not a flipphone, but a thin PPC (touch screen). Also GSM though... (sigh, all the interesting phones are GSM, and more and more so...)
Looks good. But I promised myself to wait until summer 2008 to see if any more companies currently making Linux os phones get Access/Palm's ability to run PalmOS apps. There are a fair number of Linux os phones over seas, and Moto has one scheduled to ship in the us.
wow......
After I typed this and read it a second time, I relaized I must be living in fantasy land if I this this is going to come true...
Haeir N60 linux smartphone is one of the linux smartphone available in the market. Recently Haier has used it on demonstrating the Access Linux Platform.
ACCESS Linux Platform includes ACCESS Garnet™ VM, a compatibility layer that allows thousands of existing applications written for ACCESS Garnet™ OS to run seamlessly (with little or no modification) on the ACCESS Linux Platform software. This unique compatibility layer has been designed to provide an easy migration path for users who rely on these applications and expands the addressable market for the current 30,000 68K-based Palm OS® applications.
Haeir N60 linux smartphone is one of the linux smartphone available in the market. Recently Haier has used it on demonstrating the Access Linux Platform.
Interesting... I wish them and ALP well... but its a big fat thing with an extremely weak battery. Also being triband makes it not great for the US.
If ALP had any sense and recognized the urgency with which they need to revive the Palm ecosystem, they'd release the SDK and bundle it with a linkable ROM image that (coincidentally, mind you) worked with the same tools that let HTC Apache (PPC6700) owners build their own WM5 ROM images to reflash their phones with. Viola! Instant backdoor into Sprint & Verizon-land, without the bureaucracy, delays, and hand-wringing. It seems like a large plurality, if not outright majority, of i500 owners who've moved on to newer phones have ended up in the 6700 camp, and wouldn't need much of an excuse to give ALP a try. Remember, Sprint only sees the ESN in its magic database... it has no idea, nor any way to determine, what OS is actually running on the phone.
It would be a gamble for ALP, of course. Sprint and Verizon would probably be pissed. And if ALP sucked, news would spread quickly. But on the other hand, if ALP worked well, became popular among 6700 owners, and Sprint started to notice shockingly large numbers of "new" eBay'ed 6700s being activated almost a year after they were officially discontinued... well... then they might put 2 and 2 together and decide they need to start carrying ALP phones right away... or at least before "the other CDMA carrier" does
Interesting idea, though I doubt HTC would go for it as it seems firmly entrenched in the MS camp and as probably signed with the Devil not to allow its hardware details to be used by anyone other than MS...
But ALP *could* write a ALP layer to run on top of WM5/WM6 and let everyone try and see why ALP is so much better than WM.
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