Palm will look to put an estimated year in the rearview mirror at CES with what could be a preview of its new operating organism.
The circle happening transfer out invitations Wednesday to a result at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas on the Thursday of CES week, capable a look at “all that Palm New-ness you’ve been waiting at.” The most guest of pride at that aftermath is Palm’s next-generation “Nova” operating logic, which has been delayed the epoch but is crucial to the circle’s chances of rescue a foothold in the portable computing bazaar.
Nova is based on Linux, and is estimated to transport the Palm-branded operating organism into the recent era of computing. You can residue the creation of Palm’s decline as an itinerant computing leader to the 2003 choice to withdraw into two companies, one that urbanized the operating technique (Palmsource) and one that urban the hardware (Palm).
Palm wound up having to foster the 2004-era Palm OS variety into the offer day after Palmsource and later Access never shaped something deemed practical; it still runs the Palm Centro. The band astutely hooked up with Microsoft to free Windows Mobile-based Treos, but has longed once again to model a determine artifact, hardware and software.
Nova is not probable to emerge on diplomacy until later in 2009, and few details have emerged as to what Palm has up its skin. The first week of January should give an intuit of whether Palm has managed to make a very breakthrough in movable computing, or merely wedged up to the remnants of the world.
