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Thirty-thousand Palm apps head for Nokia Webpads
Garnet VM being beta tested.
ACCESS CO. LTD. claims that 30,000 Palm OS applications will now run on Nokia’s Linux-based Nseries web tablets; N770, N800, and N810 Internet Tablets.
The Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is an embedded operating system initially developed in 1996 by U.S. Robotics’ owned Palm Computing, Inc. for personal digital assistants (PDAs).
In September 2005, ACCESS Co., Ltd. of Japan acquired PalmSource, which was the owner of the Palm OS and BeOS. ACESS used these assets and expertise to create ACCESS Linux Platform. In October 2006, ACESS announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, PalmSource, Inc., would begin changing its product name to ACCESS.
Out of all these name changes has come the Linux-based Garnet OS and now the Garnet VM.
The ACCESS Garnet VM is the familiar interface for Palm devices, so there are already stacks of applications available for them. There is a Nokia Tablet Garnet VM video demo over at Palm Infocentre.
A final version of the Garnet VM will ship by year’s end. You can download a copy of the Garnet VM beta with registration here.
A brief review of the Garnet VM beta on Nokia’s N810 can be seen at InternetTabletTalk.
After you download the Garnet VM beta and give it a spin, let us know how how many of those 80 per cent compatible applications work for you.
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