Quickies: Making Up for Lost Time

Posted By: The People Below Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:06:40 AM

The past few weeks have been some of the most interesting in the Palm Platform's history, with handheld releases and new rumors of products coming out almost every day. In all this excitement, a lot of smaller news has gone by the wayside. In an attempt to make up for this, as much of these announcements as possible are available in this article.

Issue XIII of HandHeldCrime
The thirteenth issue of HandHeldCrime is now available with free crime fiction for reading on a handheld using a doc reader, through AvantGo, or on their web site. The new issue includes short works by Kate Thornton, Derek P. Gilbert, and Laird Long, plus the latest installment of David Kearns' serialized novel THE MUCKRAKER and a bunch of reviews. -Jamey Dumas

Free Qvadis Express Reader Lite
Qvadis has unveiled Express Reader Lite, making the handheld ebook reader available for free. Users can view up to seven separate ebook titles, with no time limitations. Built-in functions include font and linespace select, bookmarks, categories, private records, document beaming, page-turn control, autoscroll, fullscreen (menu hide) mode, an onboard clock, quick help, copy-text-to-clipboard, compatibility with color devices, ability to read documents in flash memory, and powerful move-to and search functions.

Visor Edge Has Flash ROM Chip
Reader Mardy Marshall sent in a report of the discovery he made when he disassembled his new Visor Edge:

    Being the type of person that can't resist taking something apart in order to find out how it works, I desecrated my new Visor Edge. The discovery that resulted is that either by choice or as a result of parts issues, Handspring used a Hyundai HY29LV160BT-90V Flash part instead of the usual masked ROM. Unfortunately, neither FlashPro nor JackFlash seem to recognize the FLASH memory.
Sacramento Palm Users Group Meeting
The Sacramento Palm Users Group will be meeting this Wednesday, March 21, from 6-8pm at the North Highlands/Antelope Library. For directions, visit their website. -Renee Roberts

NYPC Palm Pilot SIG, April Meeting
The April meeting of the NYPC Palm Pilot SIG will be April 4 at 6:15 PM. Directions are available on their website. Representatives of AppForge Software will talk about the AppForge program, which gives Visual Basic developers the ability to create applications for the Palm OS platform without having to learn a new or proprietary language. AppForge is fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Basic, the most widely used development environment for corporate, enterprise-wide applications. Presented in conjunction with the Visual Basic SIG. -Grace Lee & Patricia Perlo

A apologize to the people who asked that their PUG meetings be announced that have already passed. -Ed

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Flash ROM in the Edge?!

I.M. Anonymous @ 3/20/2001 2:38:14 PM #
Are you sure? Somebody confirm this please. If it's there, will it be accessible by software like JackFlash soon?

flash rom is everywhere :)
I.M. Anonymous @ 3/21/2001 5:12:54 AM #
flash rom is found in a lot of platinums and some prisms too.
BUT we'll NEVER be able to use that, it's meant "for internal use only"(ie: Handspring's labs), to burn patches into rom and stuff like this.
and nope to acess it via existing software, maybe if someone starts coding sometin from scratch it will be possible in the future

Visors-FlashROM

meitsjustme @ 3/21/2001 5:21:51 PM #
There has been storys like this (See VisorCentral discussion board), I don't think we are dealing w/ anything new here. Some Prism & Platinum machines had flashROMs, as people discovered awhile ago, nothing's been said or done by Handspring to give explainations. So until someone figures out what these 'FlashROMs' are good for, jus ignore them. =)
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