Palm Introduces New webOS Platform
I apologize to anyone not interested in the mobile phone market for the frequency of mobile related posts over the last few weeks. There has been a lot to talk about in the mobile phone market lately. The latest announcement comes from Palm a company many thought was had been phased out of the mobile market.
A popular topic lately has been Palm’s new mobile OS. We knew a big announcement was coming from Palm regarding their new OS, now we know all about it. I am an iPhone fan, but I must admit this OS sounds pretty cool. Fans of the palm platform can now move beyond 1999. The new OS is rumored to be built on top of Linux and the browser is a custom implementation of Webkit and from what I have read functions faster than mobile Safari.
The new Palm OS also offers the ability for 3rd party developers to create applications for their platform. The applications use XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of Objective C like their iPhone competition. This is good news for any of you web developers looking to expand your market. The only difficulty I see, unlike the iPhone, Palm devices are going to vary in screen size so creating XHTML apps that function evenly across all Palm OS installations could be tricky, I guess we will see.
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This should be very interesting.
It seems very iPhone-esque, might be some competition for Apple too.
Too bad it’s only EDVO and not a GSM type mobile.
Watch this space methinks.
I heard it was not GSM as well but then I saw this article:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/09/palm.pre.gsm.and.price/
Just a follow up to my last comment, I had a thought over night, that unless they’ve developed a new browser, even Safari Mobile crashes, so I’d hate to know what happens when this thing has too many ‘applications’ (I use the term loosely because they read like all apps are web applications/sites) open, is it going to crash the whole OS?
Food for thought…
Where did you find a photo? I have been looking for a photo of the Palm webOS for an hour. I am stealing yours.