StyleTap Platform lets you run Palm OS apps on your Pocket PC

Haven't had a chance to fire up one of our old iPAQs and test this out first-hand, but a company called StyleTap has announced a new emulator called StyleTap Platform that'll let you run Palm OS apps on your Pocket PC. They claim that the software is compatible with thousand of different applications written for Palm OS 5.2 and earlier, and that you don't have to run programs in a separate emulation window—supposedly they'll show up as native programs on your Pocket PC and you can use them just like you use Windows Mobile apps (that includes being able to cut and paste text back and forth, too). No support for Bluetooth, at least not yet.

[Buis @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

Now all you need is a Cobalt theme!

[Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

Day is done,
Gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky.
All is well, safely rest,
God is nigh.

[Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

Day is done,
Gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky.
All is well, safely rest,
God is nigh.

[Thomas Brown @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

Wow!! This sure would be useful in cutting down the memory requirements for programs loaded to WM.

[sebastien @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

any mac users here ? if bluetooth works with this I'll finaly be able to use sailing clicker!

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

If this will let me to port over all the Palm OS software I have bought over the last 5 years to allow me to buy a Samsing i730 when it comes out instead of a Treo 650 for Verizon this will be awesome.

[Scotty @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

In the fine print on their site, it mentions that conduits aren't supported. Not surprising, now that I think about it, but that would make it pretty useless for me.

[MFoo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

Wasn't able to load bugme v5 (i heard v4 works)
Wasn't able to load Note Studio
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Works great!: Project (freeware)
Works great!: Acro-Wiki (trial)

[Bob @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM]

Just thought I'd let you know that PC Magazine has just reviewed our product. If you're interested, please read:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1835272,00.asp

I'd also like to clarify some issues brought up in the review.

(1) The StyleTap Platform does have networking (TCP/IP) support. Programs such as SnapperMail and AgendusMail work well and allow you to send and receive documents.

(2) The StyleTap Platform also allows you to beam documents to/from Palm OS devices as well as other Pocket PCs running the StyleTap Platform.

(3) There are a lot of significant areas such as medicine, drugs and educations where there is a lot more Palm OS than Pocket PC software. Many enterprises also have internal Palm OS only applications that do things such as allow insurance agents in the field to create and submit applications for new policies or allow airline pilots to use a PDA to access airline and airport information. Although these applications do not show up in the top 10 list of most downloaded software due to narrow target audience for each of them, they heavily influence the PDA buying decision.