Tag: palm

Some thoughts on the Pebble smart watch

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Four weeks on the wrist, and I’m all set to go Charlton Heston on you if you try to pry it off. The Pebble smartwatch cracks the challenge of the smartwatch, and while it’s not the final iteration of the wearable technology, the Pebble reminds me of the promise of the early Psion and Palm devices I used. The Pebble reminds me of the early days of the PDA, with many limitations in the hardware and software being overcome by smart hacking. The limitations of size and interface are obvious, while others are down to the hardware design (the Pebble

This Is An Ex-Operating System

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PalmOS is dead. That’s Ed Colligan’s assertion, and given he’s Da Man at Palm, I think we can call that case closed (yes Centro’s will still be sold, but no new models. From here on in you can go Windows Mobile or webOS – so make sure you hold the shift key down on the right letters. To be honest this doesn’t surprise me. If handspring had bit the bullet when it was formed all those years ago and started with a blank page rather than licence PalmOS back from 3com, they wouldn’t have hit the dead end they did

Further Thoughts on the Palm Pre; Still Doesn’t Look Enough

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Following on from yesterday’s snap thoughts on the launch of the Palm Pre, the big question is going to be how well it sells. I suspect not as much as many are hoping. From Peter Kafka on All Things Digital: [The new Palm Pre could] try to take market share by coming in significantly lower than the $200 or so Apple wants for its iPhone. But when I ran that theory by Palm CEO Ed Colligan, he looked at me liked I’d peed on his rug. “Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product,” he asked,

Not Your Father’s Palm – Impressions of the Palm Pre

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So at CES today, Palm unveiled their new phone, the Palm Pre. This is a tough time for Palm, they’ve not had luck with their recent devices and software. The assumption is that this device had to hit it out of the park for Palm to survive the recession. Form the initial looks, I think it’s going to struggle. There’s nothing especially new in the smartphone space here. The screen is 320×480 in portrait mode; it’s running on EV-DO for data 9so it’s effectively US only), it has a multi-touch screen that has support for ‘gestures’; a Qwerty keyboard slides

Not Too Simple A Task, Please, Google

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If Google are to launch a To-Do list (as reported via an eager TechCrunch reader) then I really do hope they make it as simple as possible… but with one caveat. Have some sort of folder/labels arrangement in the same way as Gmail. The reason for this is because to make a good To-Do list application for the real world, there needs to be a touch of filtering applied. One of the greates To-Do list applications, in my mind, was that on Palm III PDA machines. There was very little screen clutter (you had 160×160 pixels and that was it),