Good bye PalmOS

Palm OS: Dead, forever

Software

By Samantha Rose Hunt

Thursday, February 12, 2009 17:03

vote nowBuzz up Chicago (IL) - There never will be another smartphone to utilize the Palm OS. The company announced today it will begin a transition to webOS while also supporting Microsoft Windows products. The current Centro smartphone will be the last phone to utilize the Palm OS. The day has arrived for my beloved PalmOS decided to cease to exist in future Palm products.My last PalmOS PDA was Treo680,which I sold last month and bought Nokia E71 on 23/1/09.Palm Inc has done very well in taking PDA to a new height when Apple dropped Newton.As they say, the rest is history. My love affairs with PalmOS began way back in 1998.It has been a long time.With a few friends we formed usergroup called Palmx.Through our mailinglist,we discussed on howto and our experience in making the best use of it as our PIM tool as well as our communication tool.It was a great and enjoyable experience for my friends and me. The PalmOS may be dead by the above official annoucement, but our community of gadgets/technology  lovers are alive-online and offline.Technology changed and being upgraded/superseeded but the human spirit and friendships live on... C'est la vie.. More photos of our previous activities from my flickr. My blog about palmx usergroup. The photo on the right shows our members and their family during our annual get together.Sweet memory lingers on..

Comments

[Pokku]

I will hang on to my Zire 71 until it dies a natural death.

[Izzat]

PalmOS was indeed great. My first PDA was a Handspring Visor Deluxe. Bought it at PC Fair for RM800. Gave it to my baby sister when i decided to get the (then) sexier HP iPaq 1910. She was not very much into gadgets, so it ended up a fancy paperweight.

Anyway, let's enjoy our Symbian S60V3 for the moment. Only Allah knows what the future have in store for us. Mungkinkah PalmOS akan membuat come-back, macam Macintosh - and beat the crap out of the iPhone? we shall see... hehehehe

[OSH]

I was once a member of PalmX too; however my particicipation just faded as I found out that I was too far lagging behind amongst your very advanced members. Still have the PalmX t-shirt though and still prefers Palm than nokia (currently using Palm Trea 750v)

[Honeytar]

If one day my beloved Palm went totally dead, I will still keep it and turn it into a weapon ie. untuk baling atas kepala sesiapa yg cuba datang merampok restoran saya. ;-)