5 posts tagged “nova”

Congratulations to PUGcast on it's 3-year anniversary.  What a great time to be a Palm user, or is it?

 

The announcement has come and gone.  The faithful have cheered.  The award-givers have given the awards.  But when all the noise dies down and it’s time to purchase the much acclaimed Palm Prē, will people come with money in hand in sufficient numbers for Palm to survive?  Right now the stock is up–over $7 a share at it’s post announcement high from just below $1.50 in mid December.  It's gone up and down several times since that announcement.  Is this the high and now it sinks again, or will it continue to rise? 

 

So, what did we hear at CES, and what are our hopes?

 

We heard that Palm seemingly has produced an innovative product that really does reorient the way people will do mobile communication.  A Linux-based operating system that’s always connected to the ‘net.  You hold in your hand not just your information, but really a way to harness all the information more and more people have from many diverse sources.  At first blush, you see a strategy that has the user not self-contained, but dependent on whatever servers provide the nearly unlimited information wanted.  This has both advantages and disadvantages. 

 

Always connected means you have information at your fingertips, as much as you’d like to see and use.  For the younger set who really live not in any one geographical location in their day-to-day experience but rather live on the ‘net, having Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. all coordinated in the palm of the hand is a winner. 

No more hunting contacts and coordinating information.  Just enter it all under “Fred’s” name, and when you want to contact Fred it’s waiting for you.  Need to talk on the phone, check the date book, listen to music, and watch a movie while you post to your favorite online community?  Then the Prē can do it.  (Check your teen’s habit and see this is not an exaggeration) Like the pizzazz of a great interface with enough power in the chip to make it a mind-blowing experience?  Then from all that can be seen, the Pre can do it.  Looking for that “wow” factor that comes with having the latest and greatest?  Then the Pre can do it–for now at least. 

 

But what about the rest of the world who doesn’t spend all the waking hours in the online community spaces?  You know, the ones with real jobs and deadlines to meet?  How will they take to the Pre?

 

Looks as if the Pre does offer a lot to them as well, but a number of questions come appear in the harsh morning light after the giddy post-announcement evening’s celebrations.  By the way, I am a longtime fan of Palm and a faithful user. 

 

Will the IT departments want to support yet another standard, and given the always on connection, can security be guaranteed?  If the IT guys are willing to support it, would it sound like this? “Yes, Miss Adams, you can buy a Palm Pre at company expense to use at work, but you can’t use it for any online communities or personal web browsing.  This would compromise the security of our research department’s next wizadoodle we are trying to bring to market.” 

 

Or better yet, what will be the costs of always on roaming as you move from country to country in Europe during a week of work, for example?  Or how about that two weeks in Ibiza with a Prē that has a German SIM?  Right now that much connectivity would bankrupt the user (and even Angela would not bail you out). 

Before that, though, how soon before a GSM version even makes an appearance?  Palm first has wedded itself to a dying standard in a third place company which serves only one country.  CDMA?  Why not write software for CP/M and port it over to the Pre?  (For the younger readers, that ancient, excellent standard was around for a time before Chairman Bill took over the world of the PC.  Owning one of those early CP/M machine meant you ended up with an “orphan” no matter how amazing)  And that’s the challenge.  A great machine with an amazing interface, but can it survive in an operating system world of iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian s60, Android, etc? 

 

When it does appear, will the unit be affordable?  The Treo 680 was about as expensive as an unlocked unit needs to get.  The iPhone marketing model makes their locked unit far too expensive and way over priced because of the two year contract.  "Unlocked" as in France is an outrageous price.  In addition, business people will need to chase scarce dollars to take a chance on yet another standard with company that may not make it.  Not as big an issue, but even the leisure crowd will face the same challenge.  Anyone want to take a chance on a very expensive doorstop?

 

How soon before they add a memory card slot?  8 gigs hardly scratches the surface if you carry any sort of media.  Palm wants to keep you connected to the 'net, but this is not the way life works as you travel given the often poor coverage in places, high costs outside the home country, etc.  Anyone care to depend on the local servers in Eastern Genovia or Southern Kalalahland for your 60 gigs of music and film?

 

So, there we have it.  An obviously outstanding unit with the potential to explode onto the scene when it’s released outside the obscure CDMA market in the US, but it also has the potential to just implode and sink into the mists.  Time will tell.  People wrote similar doom and gloom scenarios for Apple a few years back and the faithful kept it alive.  Will the Palm faithful be able to do the same?  Here’s hoping we can, at least long enough for the Prē and the other new units rumored by Palm to carve out a sizable niche.

[John v. Hollande]

We all are awaiting the brand new operating system PalmOS II (Nova) to be announced at CES at Thursday January 8th.

This is, how Palm plan the implementation of their new portfolio of smartphones and netbooks.

My friend Alan Grassia has compiled a good summany on what he believes Palm will show at CES on Thursday this week.
He explains why Palm most likely presents features, a SDK and which prototypes.

In Addition he writes about Palm's new set of applications and essential radio technology to be used within the new Linux-based Nova smartphone.

Read the full article.

Some guys at crunchgear discovered a mock up of the new Palm Nova device, which is a metamorphose of an already known Palm Treo with keyboard to be slided out.

Call it crazy, but the Europeans are as they are - always a bit special. In fact, they are crazy, regardless whether they are British, French, Spainish, Italien or German.
Within just two weeks, members of Germany's largest online palm community collected a few thousand Euros in order to finance a new server of  European's largest Palm Online Community Nexave - founded by a friend of mine.

By the way: This particular friend,Torsten, is the one behind the scenes, who organises the annual Palm User Meeting (PUM) at Cebit - the globally largest event of PDA freaks, geeks, manufacturers, SW developers, PDA newbies and grannies, Palm executives, etc. with quite two hundred participants every year at Cebit fair.

Thanks to the good relationship between the European Palm Community and Palm Europe, both sides have agreed to send one palm expert from (good old) Europe over to the USA in order to meet "Ed and the Gang", have a cup of coffee and see what's new with Palm. They say, they will have groundbreaking, earthshaking and mindblowing devices ready in pipeline for 2009 together with Palm's new smartphone operating system called Nova and what's this all about, they will tell at a parallel press event to CES in January 2009. More details has the BusinessWeek.

There is currently an election on whom to send to CES and there are a few guys left:
(A) Torsten, the streamlined young, dynamic entrepreneur and founder of Nexave
(B) THL, the SIM expert for global roaming issues in digital cellular
(C) PUGcast team member Marcus, the fearless reporter who always will be send to those events

All are ready to go, but only one can win. As crazy as we Europeans are, we will decide on whom to send by this week. Tickets will be paid by another collection through the community. This underlines the strong coherence and power of the European Palm Commuity. I, for one, am really overwhelmed by the engagement of a few thousand people.
 

Liebe PUGcast-Hoerer,

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Eine Neuerung ist, dass wir vorläufig zukünftige Episoden mit QR-Codes versehen, damit sie durch einfaches Scannen sofort abgespielt werden koennen. Dazu benoetigt man einen entsprechende Lese-Software fuer PalmOS Smartphones (es wird eine Kamera vorausgesetzt), bzw. fuer jede andere Platform.
Bitte lasst uns wissen, was ihr von dem System haltet und ob ihr Verbesserungsvorschlaege habt.

Diesmal mit folgenden Themen:

• PalmOS mit Google-Kalender synchronisieren
  
• Medien per Barcodescanner einlesen
  
• Rückkehr vom PalmOS-Magazin „OSScout“
  
• Einkaufslisten online führen
• Aufgabenlisten online führen
• Entwickler über Folgen von Nova-Verspätung
• Android & Handango
• Online-Backup & Sicherheit
  
• Entwickler spricht über NS Basic/Symbian OS
• Chrome vs. Iron
• Skype mit dem Treo nutzen
• Outtakes
• Gewinnspiel
  

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