Palm planning a Symbian-powered Treo?
This all feels a little dubious, especially since Palm CEO Ed Colligan said flat out during this past Monday's announcement of the new Windows Mobile-powered Treo 700w that they wouldn't be doing a version for Symbian, but Guy Kewney over at newswireless.net isn't one to mess around, so we'll give him the benefit of the doubt when he says that Palm engineers have built a prototype of a Treo running on Symbian. Certainly makes sense that Palm's engineers would build a few to see if it could be done, but will a Treo running on Symbian ever see the light of day? Guy suggests that there could be an announcement about this as early as this month, but that the problem is that the Symbian Treo isn't as good as the Windows Mobile version because Nokia is holding onto some "core Symbian code" which apparently is needed to make the phone work better. In other words, don't hold your breath.
[Thanks, gaurav]
