Palm's Next Generation OS is Code-named Nova

Why am I getting ready for a headline like this? ...

3/7/09
by Wall Street Journal

"Franklin Announces Buyout of Palm Incorporated"
Today, Franklin Inc., makers of calculators and electronic dictionaries etc, announces a buyout of struggling handheld computing poineer Palm Inc.

Dean Gilberry, President and CEO stated that the Palm OS based organizer should bolster Franklin's bubble pack retail electronics in the future. In the full press release, he stated that shareholders should be happy about getting a company with a strong past retail presence and name recognition for only $.65 per share.

Beleagured Palm, has had dwindling sales of lackluster smartphones and organizers for the past 5 years now. Lack of competitive innovation and last years failure to deliver it's new operating system doomed the company. Palm is rumored to have shopped new Treo and Centro smartphones to national and international carriers, who rejected them en mass. Functionality, stability, and incompatibility of it's Linux based OS have been passed around for months now. As a result, aready weakened Palm shares have plummeted in recent months. ...

... sure hope I'm wrong. :-
Pat Horne

I've yet to see a red Centro in person, actually. I also noticed that the Verizon 755p is now down to $250 after MIR (online pricing). That's a pretty reasonable price, especially for Verizon. And the 755p is actually retailing (pre-rebate) on vzw.com for $50 LESS than the ancient 700p/700wx. Of course, a Treo diehard could argue about the 700p's handful of superior features (reset button, slightly larger keys, fullsize SDHC slot, higher capacity battery) but I think 99% of the market would prefer the newer, sleeker, snappier 755p.

With the combination of Verizon's general distrust of Palm OS products & the new 755p being so (relatively) affordable, I highly doubt we'll ever see the Centro offered for Verizon.

I also think we'll see the launch of the unlocked GSM Centro in a few months be the beginning of the EOL period for Palm's final standalone PDAs, as Colligan & Co. will claim in an interview that smartphone pricing now rivals PDAs while offering much more functionality.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

:-)

That's unlike, I have to say, the "Mitsubishi Pajero", which in Spain sounds so incredibly rude, they had to change the name here to "Mitsubishi Montero". And, believe me, we're no sissies that recoil at the use of strong language or gratuitous nudity even in public TV, but a car called "Mitsubishi Wanker" is just too much.

And this one you'll blame on a transient aneurysm, maybe?

Now, if I recall, they are pretty well known group.

No info == no fun!

I don't know how many times I have walked the floor with a few fellow Palm-folk listening to the floor dweebs. We wonder how much of their talk is their opinion and how much of it is a line they practiced as instructed by their floor manager. While I have to say, yes, 2007 wasn't the best year for Palm, it was not its worst.

I agree with the one that started this post. Most of you need to go back to school, get your degree, move out of your parent's basements and start dating. Then when you have a life beyond a video games and porn, your opinion may be worth something.

Nice first post!