We (ok, I) make no secret of our (alright, my) fondness for Palm OS here at Pocket Picks.
Access were the lucky/crazy company that bought the rights to Palm OS and renamed it Garnet OS. Since releasing Garnet and various emulators to get it working on several different platforms, Access have been working on a true successor to the OS - Access Linux Platform 3.0.
This very Palm-like OS is claimed to to be able to run both native Linux code as well as legacy Garnet?Palm apps. They don’t mention it at the link, but I don’t think it would be too much of a surprise if people started porting Android apps to the thing as well.
As we may have mentioned, we rather like the old Palm OS devices here at Pocket Picks. Whatever your misgivings about the PDAs themselves, you can’t deny that they had one of the best libraries of freware and shareware pps around - over 20,000 apps at the last count.
StyleTap is a Palm OS emulator that has been available on Windows Mobile for some time, claiming high levels of compatabilty to that lovely library of apps and games and operating a ‘Runs on StyleTap’ certification program that app developers can use to show their compatibilty with StyleTap.
The publishers have just announced plans for a Symbian port and - crucially - a version for the iPhone. Assuming they get it working with the iPhone SDK, this could be a great way to extend the Apple handset’s capabilities.
Geodesic announced yesterday the compatibility of its Mundu IM client for an assortment of mobile devices. Like Fring, Mundu IM allows you to navigate your existing AIM, MSN, Yahoo IM, , ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber services via a single client on your mobile phone (which is different to the way standalone VoIP apps like Vyke and Truphone work).
Supported operating systems include Pocket PC, Sony Ericsson J2ME, Palm OS, Windows Mobile as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch. The service has a few neat tricks up its sleeve too such as the ability to instantly share photos and videos taken from camera phones to contacts across all the supported IM services. Apparently this also works with file and music sharing too which is very interesting indeed.
The only kicker is that the application isn’t free (unlike Fring) but considering it is so feature rich, 11 dollars doesn’t seem like such an unreasonable price and will surely provide some pretty stiff competition.
(Via Just Another Mobile Phone Blog)
