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Run Palm OS Garnet VM on Nokia N-Series
For anyone who might be interested, ACCESS has announced a beta virtual machine that will allow owners of the Nokia N770, N800 and N810 to run Palm/Garnet OS applications. A complete version of the software will be available for free sometime before the end of this year. [Press Release via intomobile via Boy Genius]
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Palm Licenses Palm OS Garnet (OS 5) Source
Access, the company that through a combination of money, witchcraft, and the fact that nobody else really wanted it, got their corporate hands on the Palm OS source code a while back. Since this is same source that's used to power your Treo 650/680/700 smartphones, Palm (the company that makes the hardware) has been worried about how it could take its phones to the next OS level. That is, until now. Palm's just announced a non-exclusive agreement to license the Garnet source code for their upcoming PDA/Phones for $44 million. More »
6:00 PM on Thu Dec 7 2006
By Jason Chen
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Latest by Doctor_Memory: When Palm "makes" a next-gen OS? They already have one, it's called Windows Mobile, and you can buy Palm phones based on it right now. Based on this acquisition, I'd expect Palm to have a Garnet compatibility layer running on more »
