PalmSource’s CEO David Nagel faces questions about his claims that the company is in talks to license PalmOS to SonyEricsson. The handset manufacturer has flatly denied any such talks are taking place. SonyEricsson would represent a major win for Nagel’s PalmSource licensing operation.
Palm’s Nagel Risks SEC Wrath with OS Claims
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But I doubt Sony will ran away from palm, they’re established in theb palm bussiness.
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This would be a brilliant move. Either Symbian development starts rocking or they should move to Palm.
Seeing how BeOS code flow through Palm to SonyEricsson would be delicious.
I was scared for a minute or so that some phone company would mention Linux, but seriously, who would want to wait 5 minutes just to start the phone?
When can I get PalmOS on my phone SonyEricsson?
Yes, this is going be a good choice I believe and could make SonyEricsson’s phones more featureful and more powerful.
Motorola is making Linux phones.
See
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32468.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32911.html
it makes sense for sony-ericsson to offer non-nokia os (AKA: symbian) phones but the SEC thing is silly.
I sincerely doubt mr nagel was driving to use speculation to drive up share prices. He probably just spoke too soon about a conversation with sony. Sony-ercisson might not even know that sony (the one with controlling interestin in sony-ericsson) plans to do a palm os phone.
Either way, palm needs to continues its efforts to produce the palm os (5) with a more phone friendly gui. they are doing fine in smart phones but lets get the palm os in phones with normal sized screens.