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PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback Palm is like DOS while Windows CE looks much like a full scaled OS. What about the fact that Palm is not yet fully a multitaksing OS - ver.is but where we will see it on a real hardware? With Palm you need tricks to make something work in the...
[June 20, 2004, 21:21]
PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback Palm's ease of use used to be due to the simplicity of it's applications. I've just learnt about the new Zire 72 from Palm.it answers most of the valid criticisms raised in this comparison. Windows Mobile For Pocket PC 2003 and it's bundled...
[May 2, 2004, 0:03]
PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback Its been 2 years since the day i had my first PDA which is a Windows powered IPAQ 3950 and i could say that i have wonderful time with it.I'm looking forward to my 2nd PDA and am going for the Sony Clie's.IMHO, both OS have its own pros and cons...
[June 13, 2004, 14:52]
PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback absolutely agree with the article.being a user of pocketPC 2002 and 2003, and Palm5, i must say while the pocketPC often can do more, the palm does what it does better.tungsten C can match almost any pocketPC for power and memory, has the easiest...
[February 28, 2004, 16:46]
PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback Second, having used and supported both OS's I would have to say that if you use the Office Suite on your desktop, buy the Pocket PC. It's ready to go out of the box. First of all, the difficulty you describe in opening programs in Pocket PC is not...
[February 27, 2004, 13:07]
PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback I am currently using the Tungsten T and I find the Palm OS less cumbersome to use than the Pocket PC. AS with compatibility with Office products, I believe that the newest version of Documents to go can read native Office files without conversion...
[February 27, 2004, 15:22]
PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback I've own Pocket PCs and Palm PDAs (about 20 different models). There are plenty Pocket PCs owners and as many Palm owners happy too. I am coming back to Palm now because with Palm Handheld T, they get closer to Pocket PC multimedia easiness.
[January 28, 2005, 12:32]
Treo Gets Palm OS And Fast Wireless
News A little more than four months after Palm released the Windows Mobile-based Treo 700w on Verizon Wireless' EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimised) network, it is set to announce a Palm OS version that can connect to EV-DO, ZDNet UK's sister site CNET...
[May 11, 2006, 11:20]
Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News The hand held devices that are targeted [by the Linux community] are the ones that natively run Windows CE, not Palm OS or [Symbian's] EPOC. Another handheld device maker attracting notice is Handspring, a licensee of Palm's OS that was started by...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
IBM Shrinks DB2 For Handhelds
News Windows CE is offered in several iterations for both handheld PCs and mini notebooks, and the Palm OS is geared toward handhelds. Sybase is beta testing its UltraLite database engine for Windows CE and the Palm OS and is planning general...
[February 16, 1999, 14:06]
Symbian Smartphones Get Email, Photo Services
News Symmetry also runs on platforms such as the Palm OS and Microsoft's Pocket PC and Windows for Smartphones, and Infowave said it plans to work with other mobile phone operators besides T-Mobile outside the UK.
[June 16, 2003, 15:39]
IBM Announces Win CE-based WorkPad
News The WorkPad z50, available now for $999 (£610) comes with Mobile Connect, IBM's software for synchronising both the Windows CE and Palm OS WorkPads with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. The z50 fills what IBM says was a gap between its Palm OS...
[May 6, 1999, 8:38]
Palm Gets A Boost From Linux
News Microsoft has made huge strides in the two years that the Palm OS has languished, convincing even PalmSource's former partner-in-crime, Palm, to put Windows Mobile onto a Treo smartphone. More than two years have passed since PalmSource — the Palm...
[September 4, 2006, 17:35]
Smartphone Market Picks Up In Europe
News While Palm is still the leading handheld vendor, and Sony continues to post good growth rates, the sheer number of vendors using Windows CE in their devices means that Palm OS is now in third place in EMEA," said analyst Andy Buss in a statement.
[April 23, 2003, 12:58]
Palm Touts Stability Of Linux-based Treos
News Colligan added that Palm would continue to release Treos based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, alongside those sporting the new Linux-based OS. We have been developing a set of system software that we will roll out before the end of the...
[April 11, 2007, 13:35]
CE Losing Palm Arm Wrestle
News As the Palm OS continues to grow in popularity, some handheld hardware makers are abandoning rival Microsoft's Windows CE. The main attraction of the new palm-size operating system version, code-named Rapier, is supposed to be a simplified GUI that...
[November 1, 1999, 8:34]
Palm Launches 'European' Treo 750v
News Devices based on the Palm OS that Palm created have been delayed due to difficulties with the PalmSource software division it sold to mobile software maker Access in 2005. The company has launched Windows versions of the Treo, and a planned Linux...
[September 12, 2006, 17:25]
Singaporeans Tout All-in-one Operating System
News The MXI OS apparently allows a computer to run programs that are written for the Windows, Linux or Palm operating systems. Two Singaporean inventors who say they've created an operating system that can run programs that are written for Windows...
[September 5, 2003, 8:40]
PalmSource Pushes On With Linux Plans
News Linux may make Cobalt, the latest Palm OS, more attractive to some licensees, but so far the operating system hasn't made a significant impact in the mobile world. PalmSource joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) this week, pushing...
[March 10, 2005, 15:45]
HP IPaq Takes Crown From Palm In Asia
News Not Palm OS, but proprietary systems used in low-cost products from firms based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, which have also suffered the brunt of the drop in demand that caused the PDA market shrink 22 percent in unit shipments compared with...
[June 6, 2003, 8:54]
