As found on Slashdot, Nintendo has licensed software from Palm under a “V-Pocket” trademark. Details are very sketchy so far, but the GamerCentric article seems to suggest that Nintendo is adding PalmOS organizer functionality to its new double-screened handheld console and will premiere this new functionality at E3.
This is an interesting sort of convergence, quite different from the “smartphone” convergence that is supposedly killing off the standalone PDA. If it’s successful, perhaps it won’t mean the swan song of the large-screened eye-friendly PDA just yet after all; handheld consoles have to have decent-sized screens so that people can play them for hours on end without excessive eyestrain. It will be interesting to see if Nintendo takes advantage of the dual screens with its PalmOS implementation, or if it just uses the lower, touch-sensitive screen as a standard PDA while leaving the upper one alone.
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