Palm will reportedly be releasing a new mobile device tomorrow. They’re bread and butter is their Treo line of smartphones, which is quite naturally threatened by Apple’s iPhone.
Palm is keeping quiet about the details, even declining to brief industry analysts ahead of the announcement. But one possibility is the Linux-based smartphone that Palm CEO Ed Colligan has promised to release before the end of 2007. Such a device would improve performance compared to Palm’s current Treo by running the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel, Colligan told analysts at the company’s annual investor day in April.
That would just figure considering I just got a Treo 680. Now, we’re all fans of the iPhone, but how many of you are interested and willing to take a look at Palm’s offerings now? Could a Linux based version sway you?
[i]Could a Linux based version sway you?[/i]
Depends. I've got a bootable linux partition on my iMac G5 but I don't want to have to use it to sync my phone nor do I want to deal with terminal commands.
Not a chance. I have purchased my last Palm product. Nothing I have heard from any Treo user makes me regret that.