Palm is rumored to be launching a smartphone on Thursday that runs Nova, its next-generation operating system, according to a report Sunday on CrunchGear.
The report, which cites "a trusted source," says the device will have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide under the touch screen.
Palm's next-generation operating system has been delayed several times but is regarded as crucial to the company's chances of regaining a foothold in the mobile-computing market.
Nova, based on Linux, is expected to bring the Palm brand operating system into the modern era of computing. The beginning of Palm's decline as a mobile-computing innovator can be traced to the 2003 decision to separate into two companies, one that developed the operating system (PalmSource) and one that developed the hardware (Palm).
Palm wound up having to nurture the 2004-era Palm OS version into the present day after PalmSource and later Access never produced anything deemed useful; it still runs the Palm Centro.
The company wisely hooked up with Microsoft to release Windows Mobile-based Treos, but has longed to once again design a complete product, hardware and software.
CNET News' Tom Krazit contributed to this report.
Palm to preview Nova OS and first device at CES
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It's been a while since Palm has caused a stir, but the company certainly has people talking with its planned January 8 CES event. As CNET News reporter Tom Krazit reported last week, it's expected that Palm will preview its new operating system, codenamed Nova, at CES 2009, and the rumors look to be true based on new information from a Business Week article.
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With the world anxiously awaiting the Asus Eee Box, it's all too easy to overlook the company's other small PCs. We've already seen the Nova P20, and now we have the privilege of showing you its younger, more attractive sibling, the Nova Lite.
It's designed primarily for use as a media center machine. Its petite frame (231 x 184 x 51 millimeters) is small and cute enough to fit alongside your existing AV equipment without looking too out of place. It even comes with a stand so you can position it vertically as well as horizontally.
Inside, our entry-level sample is packing a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM, and an 80GB hard drive, so it's not going to win any awards for speed or storage. However, it's quick enough to play HD movies over its HDMI and DVI ports without stuttering and you can easily add more storage via one of the four USB ports at the rear. To see more, click here.
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We've just taken a cheeky advance look at Asus' new Nova P20. It's the latest in a line of alternatives to the Mac Mini and at first glance it ticks all the right boxes for a small form-factor PC: It's tiny, it's very, very quiet, and it's not beige.
You can position it in vertical or horizontal orientations and it has touch-sensitive power and optical drive eject buttons, which help to keep the front looking uncluttered. 'Round the back there are four USB ports and three audio jacks that support surround sound. It also has a DVI port, but you can always use an adapter if you fancy turning that into HDMI.
As expected, the P20's specs are in line with those of the Mac Mini. It uses an Intel 2160 1.8GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and a DVD rewriter drive, as well as a built-in speaker and integrated Intel graphics. Games are pretty much out of the question, but that's not what this thing's about.
Asus reckons it'll cost somewhere in the region of 450 pounds (about $886)--which is about the same as you'd pay for a Mac Mini of the same spec. It's available in black or white (the white version looks the sexier of the two) and should be available later this year.
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Why Philips would want to join the hyper-competitive notebook market is beyond us, and even more curious is why it would choose to do so in Brazil. But the Netherlands-based electronics maker will be doing both in December, Engadget says, with two new models.
The first has an 11-inch display, U2400 Core Duo processor, 1GB of memory, a 120GB hard drive, and a dual-layer DVD burner; the second a 13-inch screen, T7300 Core 2 Duo chip, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and a dual-layer burner. The finishes of their casings, respectively in magnesium alloy and piano black (shown here), may be their most distinguishing features--aside from their price. At $2,477 and $2,165, these machines don't appear to be aimed for the hoi polloi.
In fact, we're not sure which consumers Philips is targeting with these notebooks, especially because it says they were developed "specifically for the Brazilian market." Perhaps they include some sand-resistant features for the cabanas in Rio.
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As more people seem determined to spend their entire lives in the bathroom, gadget makers are responding in kind with products that fit in with the decor of tile and plumbing.
The latest example is a waterproof iPod speaker from a Taiwanese company called Nova. Gizmodo says it can either sit on a shelf or hang from the shower head in a way that "suggests a playful life attitude," to quote the company.
But if you're partial to baths instead of showers, you may need one more thing to go with it: a splashproof remote.
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