Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Are Palm Planning a Treo Running Symbian?
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "THE COMPETITION" @ 08:00 AM
"This all feels a little dubious. . . . 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? . . . .[T]he 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."
I think it's best to firmly file this flight of fancy under 'rumour' for now. Choice is good, but having the same mobile hardware device running three different OS's? It's taken Palm a while to change their ways, but this plethora of potential OS options is getting silly. Do you guys think there is even a slim possibility of having a Symbian Treo to add to the Palm and WM powered devices?
I think it's best to firmly file this flight of fancy under 'rumour' for now. Choice is good, but having the same mobile hardware device running three different OS's? It's taken Palm a while to change their ways, but this plethora of potential OS options is getting silly. Do you guys think there is even a slim possibility of having a Symbian Treo to add to the Palm and WM powered devices?
