Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Edward Jones
My application is used on the venerable Palm TX and uses Bluetooth and Wi-fi connections, which works nicely. I like this PDA and so do my users as it just works and does the job perfectly without the complication of adding a mobile phone into the mix. Inevitably though, users do break things

re: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Philip Sheard
You should not have any problems buying new T|Xs from Amazon UK, at least for the time being. Apparently Palm is due to make some sort of announcement early next year. It could either be the next big thing, or another Foleo. I actually liked the Foleo, but it was a marketing disaster. If you are l

Re: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Edward Jones
Thanks for the reply. Palm have indeed made an announcement, but it is not the one I wanted: "Colligan: No New Palm Handhelds" as reported on Palm InfoCenter -> http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9654/colligan-no-new-palm-handhelds/ Thanks anyway for your response, I will bear you in mind for

RE: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Philip Sheard
You are probably right about traditional handhelds as opposed to smartphones. There is very little movement in that direction. On the WM front, you only have the iPAQ 114 and 214, both of which are regarded as oddities. The only other new handhelds around are the iPod Touch (which is an iPhone w

Re: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Don Albertson
I have to agree. Historically, PDA's were useful as mobile data stores that could synchronize with a master database. Now that so many wireless devices have the ability to connect directly to the master db, there's far less need for the ability to store and sync. The other thing that made Pa

RE: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Philip Sheard
Palm offered a vision, a possibility of a digital lifestyle, that never became a reality. Those of us who remain on this forum bought in to that dream, but most people never did. The fact is that most people approach unfamiliar technology as they would an unexploded bomb. People go for internet

Re: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Dmitry Grinberg
Well, at least you can take solace in the fact that it was a fun ride :) Best Regards, Dmitry Grinberg (847) 226 9295 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Philip Sheard wrote: > Palm offered a vision, a possibility of a digital lifestyle, that never > became a reality. Those of us who remai

Re: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Don Albertson
And I can continue to produce applications for my Centro -- at least until my current wireless supplier continues to support it. dga Dmitry Grinberg wrote: Well, at least you can take solace in the fact that it was a fun ride :) Best Regards, Dmitry Grinberg (847) 226 9295 On Mon, Dec 2

RE: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Philip Sheard
Another factor that I forgot to mention was the unalloyed greed of Handango. PalmGear were complicit in this, and between them they destroyed the developer community. 90% of peanuts might be fun, but 40% of peanuts sticks in the craw. -Original Message- From: Don Albertson [mailto:don.albe

Re: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Eric Bresie
As long as we are talking about Palm vision... Is anyone prevy to what the new platform programming environment will be like for what is expected at CES on Jan 8? (see http://blog.palm.com/palm/2008/12/vote-for-your-favorite-cartoon.html ) Eric -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer

Re: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Dmitry Grinberg
linuxy-craptastic Best Regards, Dmitry Grinberg (847) 226 9295 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Eric Bresie wrote: > As long as we are talking about Palm vision... > > Is anyone prevy to what the new platform programming environment will > be like for what is expected at CES on Jan 8? > >

Launching the emulator

2008-12-22 Thread Baxter
I'm using Codewarrior 9.3, and have lost the ability to launch the Emulator from within the Codewarrior IDE - neither the button nor the menu option works. I can launch from the Desktop and then connect, but it would be more convenient to be able to launch within the IDE. Anybody have any idea

RE: Developing on Palm PDAs - what next?

2008-12-22 Thread Philip Sheard
As opposed to ARMazing? I daresay you are right, but let us wait and see. Given the marketing expertise that Palm demonstrated once again with the Foleo, this could turn out to be the Cobalt that never was. Let us all hope, even pray. For a few days, anyway. -Original Message- From: Dmit