<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:20 PM, L.D. Paniak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
unsolicited wrote:<br>
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> As has been said before, Palm is dead. Thus threads like these are of<br>
> great interest for me - I know I have to choose a different platform<br>
> at some point. I'm not looking forward to it.<br>
><br>
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</div>How about the "soon-to-arrive in Canada" Pre from ... Palm?<br>
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I've seen a few examples of getting to a command line in the onboard<br>
WebOS - even running openVPN on the device. Some detail here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br>
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Package management looks like a variant of that used for OpenWRT on routers.<br>
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The official dev page:<br>
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<a href="http://developer.palm.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://developer.palm.com/index.php</a><br>
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<br>
I saw VMs somewhere else, can't find them now. OK found them:<br>
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<a href="http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1585" target="_blank">http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1585</a><br>
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<br>
There's even an O'Reilly book on Pre application development.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I was a past Palm fan. Used it for many years as a PDA, then they dropped the ball<br>
and faded into obscurity.<br><br>This phone may be a comeback for them, but can also be a one hit wonder, if that ...<br>Android and Nokia have a better shot of continuity (IMO).<br><br>
The Pre seems to have some good features, but there is a serious turn off<br>
here regarding privacy<br>
<br>
<a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/12/1616243/Palm-Pre-Reports-Your-Location-and-Usage-To-Palm">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/12/1616243/Palm-Pre-Reports-Your-Location-and-Usage-To-Palm</a><br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
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