Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 08:26:42 01/20/04
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On January 20, 2004 at 08:28:00, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On January 20, 2004 at 06:50:32, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On January 20, 2004 at 06:43:18, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >>>mark is heavily working on this thing. >>> >>>thats all i know. >>>let's wait. he not only has to make it for the normal palms, but also for the >>>ARM-palms. so maybe it needs a little more time. >> >>I think you could say that the ARM-palms *are* the normal Palms by now. Are >>68k Palms even produced any more? >> >>It's unfortunate that it is so tricky to write ARM code for the current >>generation of Palm OS. I have more or less given up myself, and will not finish >>the Palm OS version of my engine before Palm OS 6 units appear on the market. >>It >>looks like Palm OS 6 will finally make it easy to write ARM-native programs. >> >>Tord > >the question is : WHICH market is bigger in the moment: old palms or new ones. One of the many pleasures of being an amateur is that I don't need to care about the market. :-) >I have serious doubts to buy a tungsten T3 because i have seen many units make a >very high frequency sounds with the display- this is something i do not wish to >have. >a palm making ugly sounds while using it. I've never tried a T3, but I haven't had any sort of problems with my original Tungsten T, bought more than one year ago. >instead i bought a little notebook. while i am waiting there will be a better >tungsten... and that the market has ENOUGH machines available. in the moment >it is very difficult to get machines because palm cannot produce enough. > >Also IMO the price is still to high. > >349 EURO it is in the moment (amazon.de) Yes, but that is about the most expensive Palm OS 5 unit you can find. The Tungsten E is only 199 EURO at amazon.de. Tord
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