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PalmSource Stops Cobalt Development

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[Gadget News] Cobalt was initially released on December 29, 2003 however some 18 months later there have still been no Palm devices running Palm OS 6. In the intervening months PalmSource has acquired China MobileSoft, a producer of phones with Linux expertise.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Blogs.palmsource.com] PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005 | May 24 - 26, 2005 | Palm ...: "I have a Palm OS app currently distributed through a major carrier--they 'own' the customer data and I 'own' the customer service/tech support for the app. I am interested in participating in a best practices discussion on how to work with customers (customer support, upgrades, registration issues) when you have no record of who the customer is."

[Palmaddict.typepad.com] PalmAddicts: PalmSource Linux Phone on the way next year according ...: "PalmSource has shifted its engineering efforts to focus on development of Linux-based versions of its Palm OS software for mobile phones. "We are delaying all development of products not directly related to this," said Patrick McVeigh, interim chief executive at PalmSource, during a teleconference to review the past quarter's financial results.

[Tamspalm.blogspot.com] Tam Hanna's Palm OS Blog: PalmSource sure takes a while to get ...: It's based on a different ARM emulator technology than the one used in the abandonded ARM POSE, and it looks like its going to work pretty well. However, it will take a bit of work to hook in a lot of the features that made POSE work so well for 68K development, and I don't know if they will do that work for Garnet or Cobalt when Palm OS for Linux is their future.