Screenshots from Palm OS 5

Just kidding... I like the idea of themes too! Now I'm all amped for OS5!

Palm Power!

I didnt realize balloons was a color. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

So, someone like sony could make their version of say, megalauncher, and that would be the default view you see on their pdas - not a seperate app to run.

That would prove most flexible and offer users different devices and different views. And if you don't want all that? the base standard decade old interface is there.

For the originator of this topic - you did know that they were not redesigning the gui right? I mean, there have been SEVERAL pictures from Palmsource to show this as well as statements made.

This isn't new news.

Also, it isn't Palmsource's responsibility to redesign the gui really. I mean, not if they are going with the whole philsophy of not having one perfect pda for any one person. They offer all the tools the vendors need to make it THEIR pda.

that's the plan, or so it seems.

All I was getting at is that in general, many new customers to PDA's and the such are drawn to interesting interfases, ofcourse this concept changes over time, there was a time when the win3.0 interfase was considered high tech!

I am not in any way a mac user of fanatic, but I have seen many people at fry's seriously considering iMacs due to the computer's design and how simple yet modern, high tech and pretty the OS look.

I am just saying that if you look at a PDA display at a compusa, fry's etc. the 'coolest' looking launchers do not come with palm devices. I wish they did so even more people would buy palm, more apps and accesories produced and subsequently more innovations happen.

Anyway, I am happy that there is innovation on the OS side, what I fear is that other companies are out-innovating palm.. I love the platform, I have PPC's and even psions and I allways come back to palm... I just hope they keep giving me reasons to

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There should be some kind of ignorance clause for these boards.

I am just saying that if you look at a PDA display at a compusa, fry's etc. the 'coolest' looking launchers do not come with palm devices. I wish they did so even more people would buy palm..."

Yup...and generally those are the people that shouldn't be buying computers to begin with, because they have no clue what it is or how to use it. Apple has maintained a breath of life in the marketplace by ooohing and aaahing the gullible (oh, and a substantial amount of funding from their chief rival, so there could be "competition" in the market...Apple becomes a pawn of M$). I DEFINITELY don't want these kind of people buying PalmOS devices until they have a genuine use for them and a level of intelligence that allows them to think beyond "pretty pictures" to actual functionality. Let the "pretty pictures" crowd buy a overpriced PocketPC's to go with their overpriced IMAC's. The two products seem perfectly targeted for the same demographic.

This isn't to say that the interface couldn't be jazzed up a little bit, but the day my Palm looks like WinXP or OSX (especially if it is at the expense of performance and usefulness) is the day I ditch my Palm.

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Is this a joke, I don't want "these kind of people" buying a palm. The irony hear is that you all sound like a bunch of Mac users and yet your slamming them. Your being just as elitist at about the Palm hardware/OS as a Mac user. And for the record I've owned several PCs and just bought one of the new iMac. I'm not one of those freaks about their computers -- it was the right tool for the right job. Believe it or not, people need computers and peripherals for different reasons -- for a lot of people if it's easy to use out of the box and it looks good too, that's just fine for them. A lot of people don't need to spend hours tweaking their palms so they can use this launcher or that freaky Star Trek theme. They just want an easy to use device that works. Hasn't that always been the hallmark of a Palm?

How about mp3, .mpeg, multimedia and the tauted new networking and security features.

I'm sure we will have that at some point. There are various OS's that you can already flash onto the iPaq. Of course it would also be nice if the serial/USB connector at the base of PDAs was standardized too.