PalmInfoCenter is reporting that Palm has announced and is working on a new Linux based mobile platform. The new platform was announced at the Palm Analyst meeting and is described as a new foundation for Palm. The new platform will compete with Symbian OS although Palm has said they will not be licensing the platform.
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Informative comment, that shows nicely what happened so far with Palm, a long and winding story already indeed...
My take on this: Seeing is believing. It would certainly be good for Palm if making press conferences and drawing Powerpoint slides could somehow magically result in a real smartphone OS 😊
Even if it did become an open platform, it would still be missing the backing of a major manufacturer.
Symbian was created by a relatively small PDA company, Psion, but they had most of the major phone makers behind them so they knew they'd be getting their product out to a mass audience.