Aceeca's PDA32 keeps the PalmOS dream alive
By Donald Melanson 
posted April 9th 2010 5:18PM
posted April 9th 2010 5:18PM
posted April 9th 2010 5:18PM
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Dear PalmOS:
Die.
Sincerely, Booksmart Devil
P.S. You were wonderful, you had your heyday, and then 2006 arrived and your age began to show. Mobile computing evolved, you didn't. And now, the only thing you have going for you is legacy applications. Just leave, please. It's over.
Palm TX before it was born?
@qrius
The Palm TX even looked better than this.
An inch thick??? gee, I always wanted to tote a brick around.
@dave1812 This was thinner: http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/qcp-6035-smartphone/
Sorry guy's this is one fugly mofo. White phones are for granny and thick phones are for the history books.. No way!
This wonderful device is only slightly more outdated, on the hardware end of things, as the iPhone and iPad.
Could we call it by its actual name, Garnet OS, instead of referring to it as Palm OS? When Access bought PalmSource, Palm bought back all the rights to their name.
My TX was the best device I've ever owned. It was way ahead of the times with wifi and bluetooth, it was thin, played my movies, all my music, and had tons of applications (I guess we're calling them "apps" now?). Everybody called me a geek when I had it and now everybody has iPod touches, essentially the same thing, and suddenly its cool. Screw you Apple, for making things cool! I miss my palm :(
April 10th or April 1st?
Meh.
Meanwhile I am keeping the WebOS on HTC Hardware dream alive.
Oh throw it on Sprint, Wimax, front facing camera, and I'll buy immediately.
Is it still FrankenGarnet?
wow... an SD card slot, 128 mb of memory? Sounds like my old ipaq from 2005...
Hey guys, I've just came out of a 15 year coma. Is this the latest thing? The cutting edge stuff? If it is, i gotta have it. I wanna be "in the now".
Why????????????????????
That screenshot's pretty old - AvantGo's been gone since June '09.
Yo im selln mi PIXI fr THIS lMAO LOL111111111
It would the height of irony (and sad) if the old Palm OS made more profit dollars than the new one. If the Pre doesn't make it out of the red, it won't take much to beat it.
Sweet, now my icon has competition
I like it, but whenever I see PalmOS, I think 1998.
Must have been a long and hard search to find a designer who can make such an ugly case for it. Congrats.
Aprilbof what year.
Wait. Did that really say 128 megs of flash?
This device makes me think about the episode on Star Trek TNG where the entire crew was de-evolving. I loved that episode! But this device is an epic fail! =/
@Everyone above: This isn't a phone. It's a PDA.
A lot of businesses and shipping companies still use PalmOS devices. Then again, I still see businesses using Windows NT, so... yeah.
I'd be all over even a garnet device if it had an ipod touch form factor. I was far more productive with a the built in pim apps of a vanilla PalmPilot pro than my vanilla ipod touch.
A TX was my last pda purchase and I decided to stop using it rather than running it to touchscreen failure. A Pre would have been a natural upgrade had the pim apps, input choices, and synching not changed so radically. And since I hate the wasted space of thumb boards, centros, pixies, and blackberries aren't options for me.
My own laziness and my Enterprise's 3rd party cloud hatred has resulted in my avoiding google, toodledo, and other sites/services to do work.
Since Iphone OS 4 still lacks native tasks and enhanced notes, I'll keep my tiny pay per use flip phone, get a nano for my itunes content & radio, and get a cheap droid phone (likely Kyocera zio) for pim, wifi, and other non-media player stuff.
Still, with the Evo and hopefully the Dell mini 5 appearing this summer, my device mix might change.
horrible, just horrible.
It looks like the design is retro Starwars inspired
You all know it's not a smartphone right?
It will probably take a 30ft drop and is for a warehouse, hospital, delivery man.
Your UPS man or the guy doing inventory at the local warehouse would break an iPhone (probably on purpose) in five minutes
and WHY?
Just a pimped iPad.
My self from 10 years ago is very excited about this device.
Lets see class 1 bluetooth and b/g wireless. This is a tool for work and play. The nice thing about garnet is that it allows many thousands of useful apps to be used. This devise does require a little gray matter to understand its usefulness. I believe that most the objections to this devise are from the I group. The larger bulk comes from having a battery that will last much longer so the devise is useful in the work place. It is around two ounces heavier than a palm TX.