Palm emulated on the iPhone: finally we can leave that IIIc at home
By Paul Miller 
posted Feb 23rd 2008 7:36PM
posted Feb 23rd 2008 7:36PM
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Now you ARE tempting me to get a Touch...
The main reason I don't like Apple products is that they look good but their functionality sucks relative to other products....
If this works well, it basically leaves that problem totally out.... sexy device with functional software
Let's see what happens
PalmOS having functional software?? HAHAHAHA. You are joking, right?
"The main reason I don't like Apple products is that they look good but their functionality sucks relative to other products...."
Really, so the functionality of the iPod Touch I have sitting here "sucks". I could have sworn it was the most powerful, advanced "communications device" that's ever been able to fit in my hand. But what would I know, I've only owned or used 5 palm devices, including two treos, and just about every PocketPC/Smartphone that's been made in the last five years including most HTC models, Nokia N-series, etc.
I don't own any other Apple products at the moment, but their MacBook Pro is incredible and their Mac Pro is probably the best mainstream workstation money can buy.
But yea, their functionality "sucks". Could you possibly be more of an idiot?
I could have sworn it was the most powerful, advanced "communications device" that's ever been able to fit in my hand
............
Shows how much you know. Have you tried to connect to a bluetooth GPS receiver yet? Have you tried sending an MP3 via bluetooth to some-one else's phone? How about push e-mail support from some-one else other than yahoo? Can you edit documents?
Your standard for an "advanced communication device" is pretty low.
Sam Winter:
All the Palm devices have a much more powerful calendar application than the touch or the iphone.. you would know that if you had ever tried to create a recurring appointment. I guess you were probably too technically challenged to notice that. I feel sorry for you.
The only area in which the touch has clear superiority is the internet browser.
oh yeah, finally this is so good news
want
I think the most important question here is WILL IT SLING?!?!?!?!? PLEASE PLEASE
i swear my old palm wasnt as rubbish as that.
Man, might as well rip a hole in the universe.
I didn't care for the Palm emulator in my ACTUAL Palm devices...
This is great news! Whatever apps aren't available for the iPhone natively can be filled in with this. I hope they release this!
This may be the effective Treo killer that may push some of us owners over to the iPhone... or at least an iPod touch.
One of the main things that keeps me on the Treo is the apps... I use quite a few of them each day to keep me organized.
I know it's just a proof of concept at this point, but it's cool to see.
I never liked PALM at all. I owned a Palm IIIxe. Waste of money.
I'd gladly take the Windows CE products over Palm products - I got so much enjoyment out of my HP Jornada 525
Oh look, it's the new Apple SDK!! Look at those 3rd party apps fly!
Oh look it's delayed...
does this mean i can connect to my slingbox with my iPhone?
Isn't that an iPod Touch?...
That is some way old shit Palm stuff but good news. Let's see it work and fully sync Documents to Go and Pocket Quicken and THEN they'll have some good shit!
thats like buying a Porsche and then putting go-kart wheels on it...
No, no it's not.
more like buying a porsche, adding all kinds of stuff to make it better, then painting it an ugly color not liked by society
No it's like buying a Porsche with no engine, and then putting a Corolla engine in it.
I'd say it's like buying a Porsche and the removing the interior and replacing it with the interior from a ford taurus.
and also slapping on a few stickers, crappy intake, crappy exhaust and hubcaps from Autozone.
But remember....you can always go back to it being a regular Porsche.
This is like having a Porsche that can turn into a 4WD utility van with the flick of a switch, its freaking fantastic!
If this can run palm based medical software they will have a sizable new market thats been waiting for something like this to come along. Go back compatibility!
Best news ive heard all day! no really, the day this is released is the day i get an iphone...if i havent got i ipod touch by then...
This is good news, but does this emulate an ARM or 68k Palm? Wether it's a PalmOS 3 or 4 device or PalmOS 5 makes a big difference. If it's PalmOS 5 and runs at the speed then that's great!
The chess game in that image is only for the new ARM processors on Palm OS 5.
wow, so the iPhone can actually be a smartphone now! Hmm, this suddenly makes the iPhone a viable option for me now...
Thats a iPod touch dude.
I had so much fun with my Palm3. I miss that little thing.
Those were the good 'ol days.
Holy crap, now the iPhone has copy and paste! And Graffiti!
If they had done this fifteen years ago it would have saved the Newton.
Umm. The Newton had copy and paste of limitless proportions -- you would drag highlighted text to the side of the screen, where it hung out until you needed it. It also had Graffiti, a (I think $20) shareware app by Palm, Inc., long before the Pilot even existed.
I thought the iPhone had better performance than that. My old Lifedrive got 686%
It's because it's emulating it. Of course in the end it makes no difference, it's still slow.
I thought the iPhone had better performance than that. My old Lifedrive got 686%
Now all someone has to do is create a stylus holder for the back and sloooow down the processor to palm speed.
WTF? A actual palm is faster than that...
Not that the processor is actually faster, but that this is a system running inside a system...
Just like your 3.2GHz computer can't emulate a 733MHz XBOX (and no, I'm no comparing apples with oranges, both your computer and the XBOX are x86)
He weighs 166kg?!
66cm too! he's DENSE!
You mean 166lbs? It was in Imperial, not Metric. :hsugh:
And to complete the ridiculous cycle, load Pocket Tunes on it.
With an iPod Classic skin...
One less reason for me to stick with the Treo. I need my Palm-based medical apps. The other reason (and a lot harder to overcome) is that I'm on Verizon (along with the rest of my immediate and extended family) and I can't give up that VZW free in-network calling.
actually considering how awesome ZiPhone is verizon and any other provider isnt really an issue every recent firmware is cracked, and from what i've seen zibri is wicked at cracking
The iphone is gsm; verizon and sprint use cdma... No mather how much hacking you do you won't be able to use the iphone on anything other than gsm.
LMAO sorry man didnt realize it was cdma im in the caribbean :(
You can "install" TCPMP and be able to watch all common/popular videos format (avi, mpg, etc...)
COOL!!
This is all lame and pointless ... as Palm has become ... if Apple ever releases the SDK we'll have software to make the iPhone and Touch very powerful tools.
Palm o/s? can we make it even more state of the art like with DOS?
Palm is obsolete and dying.
My palm is hairy
That'll be all the iTouching.
Palm is obsolete and dying and yet on its worst day it still has 1000s more features than the iPhone on its best day.
It would be nice to see how performant the Newton emulator (see http://code.google.com/p/einstein/) runs on the iPhone. Compared to the Newton with its true handwriting recognition and smooth user interface, the palm ist only second best.
As a medical student, I need the medical apps made for either palm or windows mobile. This has forced me to use a wretched, unresponive, and buggy windows mobile phone instead of the sleek and modern iphone. This palm emulation on iphone could solve both these conundrums. I want this!
Agreed. Many of my medical programs are only available on Palm. Skyscape for iPhone was a good start, but this makes my palm redundant. I could finally get an iPhone if they released this.
Please people, enough of this ignorant skepticism, Palm is great device, in trouble because of Palm inc. bad support, not because available software. I use it for many of my daily routines and needs... in various ways, it really is my handheld companion...
Next, there is iPhone, a wonderful device very well made and build, and with promising future, and PalmOS emulation just made it better...
Now I really think about buying one, even for the ridiculous price in my country...
BTW, some of my geek hi-tech friends have some of those new Windows pocket devices, now they really suck, even they admit it, and regret buying them, I see envy in their eyes when I'm using my TX out of the pocket... ;)) have a nice day, folks..
Great! Now I can run Palm programs on a phone that costs a fortune, hasn't got a proper keyboard and won't sync with my desktop! There's progress for you.
The Touch doesn't need a keyboard ... you can touchtype as fast as you can thumb type.
Hmmm, I wonder if this means I will finally be able to get that horrible Oracle Sync to work on an iPhone?