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Category Archives: Palm OS

Foleo - Are you freaking kidding me?

The horrible disappointment
Finally, the “Hawk” has taken flight… right into a power line.
This is Palm’s mysterious third business line? This is what Palm and Treo inventor Jeff Hawkins called the most exciting product he’s ever worked on?
In case you haven’t seen it yet, the Palm Foleo is a laptop without a brain. It’s a clamshell [...]

Palm announces Treo 755p on Sprint

It’s official, there’s a new Treo in town. The 755p was announced today for Sprint at $279.99 with a new two year service agreement and a $100 mail-in rebate. Some of the features include:

Internal antenna, slimmer form factor and mini-SD sot (up to 4GB SD card)
Two colors - “Midnight Blue” and “Burgundy”
Built-in Microsoft Direct Push [...]

Touchscreen the reason for no skinny Treos?

Source: Form vs. function: Palm won’t follow fads, CEO says - MarketWatch
“We think that will be a greater driver of purchases in the future,” he told MarketWatch in the interview. “We don’t want to follow design fads.”
While Colligan acknowledged that phones have become “a bit of a personal status symbol,” he stressed [...]

Going Wireless, Part 3: Audible Air

Before podcasts, there was Audible. I’ve been an Audible listener since 2000, and absolutely love audiobooks. But for years, the weak link in the system was the bloated, slow and cumbersome Audible Manager, a desktop application that you had to use to download your audiobooks and transfer them to your mobile device. I dealt with [...]

Leaving my keyboard at home so I write more

This is a weird one. I’ve decided to stop carrying my Palm Universal IR Keyboard, even uninstalling the driver from my 6700. Why? So I’ll write more.
Lemme esplain. For some time now, I’ve been carrying the keyboard around in my back pocket so that when the opportunity arises, I can get some writing done. Between [...]

Every time I think I’m out…

Alright, dammit, I’m back.  
I tried to leave mobile tech behind. I even started a new blog, the unfortunately acronymized Kirvin On Writing, to review desktop size writing tools.
And then I went and bought a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone. And wow, there’s a lot out there to learn again. I’ve missed a bit in [...]