Next Palm OS not until 2008

Palm won't be able to put out its Linux-based version of the Palm OS until next year, the company said last week.

This is a slip from earlier expectations that it would be out later this year, according to Brighthand. Palm announced in April that it was developing its own Linux-based version of the Palm OS despite a similar project from Access, the company formerly known as Palmsource.

Palm OS, which is actually now known as Garnet OS, has been looking older and older next to newer mobile operating systems such as Windows Mobile, as well as that iPhone thing you might have heard about. Palm wants to migrate Garnet OS to a Linux core while maintaining support for older Palm OS applications, but the project will apparently take longer than expected.

That means that Palm will continue to compete against the iPhone and other challengers with Garnet OS, which hasn't been updated in years, and Windows Mobile Palm has freely admitted that it's worried about the iPhone, warning investors last week that it might post a loss next quarter because of the iPhone mania. The company recently cut an equity deal with Elevation Partners and is under fire to come up with its next big thing. I'm not too sure that will be the Foleo.

[shane]

2008?

by then the iPhone will have 75% of the "smart phone" market all
wrapped up.

good luck palm, you are going to need it. RIM will have 24% and i
am sure you can have the leftovers.....

[caywen123]

It's not "Palm" anymore

It's Access. Palm no longer exists, AFAIK.

[Mr-P]

wow

thats a huge estimate 75% by iphone in 1 year... Do you really think that 75% of all phone users worldwide will only use Iphones?

[NRecob]

iDon't Bother-Palm=Relic from the Past

Palm/Garnet/whatever you want to call it is HISTORY
Even the latest Treos seem VERY dated next to Blackberrys and
iPhones

[sandman619]

Palm's foolish outlook of the future

Palm's President has shown where Palm's future is headed when
his statement that Apple would be foolish to enter the mobile
market. Looks like he is eating crow for dinners now. Palm's
answer to the iPhone was a $400 device that does little to make
any Palm device relevant.

[edsoliz]

Palm = good hardware, old software, and no updates

Palm's hardware is great, (removable batteries nonwithstanding) but their OS and software is stuck in 1998. It would also be nice if they provided software updates like just about every _other_ company on the planet. I like my T|X, it does lots of things, but I can't help but think that it could do more.