15/08/2008 by Gavin.

Palm lets slip Treo Pro piccies | Register Hardware

Palm briefly leaked details of their upcoming Treo Pro handset on their website.  more details over on The Register.

Palm was once synonymous with personal organisors, with many people still referring to any such device as a ‘palm pilot’.  I can’t see this making many ripples, being as it is a fairly standard spec (wifi, BT, GPS, 320×480 display) handset with an unmodified Windows Mobile 6.1 rom.  I guess the Palm name may still carry some weight with people in business but apart from that there’s nothing to get excited about here.

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13/08/2008 by Gavin.

Mobilecrunch  is reporting on the latest rumoured date for the new Android Mobile Operating System.

Now, take that with a healthy pinch of salt, but it got me thinking on where the mobile OS is going.

The major players in this market are Windows Mobile,  Apple, Symbian, Blackberry and now Google enters the fray with Android.  What could it possibly bring to the party that the others don’t already provide?

The iPhone UI is second to none, no question about it but it misses the flexibility of its competitors such as running tasks in the background (an instant messaging or GPS app for example), customisation and skinning is not really possible and misses out basics such as cut and paste.  Although not really an issue with the OS, more by design, the iPhone has a crippled bluetooth stack as well.

That being said, what could we expect from Android.  If I’m honest, I’d hope for the rich user experience of the iPhone, combined with the flexibility of Windows Mobile and Symbian.  Now that could be the killer sell, finger friendly operation without the locked door approach of the iPhone.

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