Else Intuition: The Surprisingly Not-Sad Fate of Palm OS [Cellphones]

In 2006, Access bought the rights to Palm OS , and licensed the code to Palm. Access spent plenty of time and money developing a next-gen OS , which Palm totally ignored for their own. Things looked grim! Until this thing. The Else Intuition , aside from being one of the first phones to use Access’ Linux Platform v3.0 OS, is a 3.47-inch 480×854 slab of handset, with an OMAP 3430 processor, 16GB of internal memory, a five-megapixel camera, A-GPS, and 3.5mm headphone jack. It’s capable hardware to start with, and the Palmy (an honestly, kind of sleepy) v3.0 OS has been slapped with a completely new OpenGL-accelerated interface, codeveloped by Access and Emblaze, who had promised an “ultimate holistic device,” whatever that means, late last year . It’s a lot to process, and there’s not a ton of info to run with here: There’s no hands-on to indicate if this left-field software is any good, and the companies won’t get any more specific than “[worldwide] operator evaluations are currently underway” as far as potential release dates go. That said, this looks like decent hardware, albeit seriously bricklike ,and newness counts for a lot in mobile software. Maybe this whole Access fiasco wasn’t so crazy after all? [ Access via Impress ]

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Else Intuition: The Surprisingly Not-Sad Fate of Palm OS [Cellphones]

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