Access releases Palm Garnet emulator for Nokia N-series Internet Tablet
As capable as the Nokia N770/800/810 is for the price one complaint I have heard made is the lack of PIM software that rivals that of PDAs. That complaint may be a thing of the past as Access has announced an emulator that allows the capable tablet to run Palm Garnet applications. The Garnet Virtual Machine is intended to not only allow users to run their precious Palm apps but to allow developers to create apps for the Nokia tablet. ThoughtFix is all over this news with a brief review and a video of the GVM in action.
UPDATE: Graffiti lovers will be ecstatic to find the emulator brings that text entry system onto the Nokias.
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Congratulations! My jaw just detached from my head. I will be sending you the bill for restorative surgery…
Holy cow.
Access is really sticking it to Palm with this and they can since they bought Palmsoft and own the Garnet OS and are free to do what they want..
This helps me decide between an 810 or a (i)touch epecially when it looks like the Apple tablet rumors are again bogus and what will be announced at MacWorld is a 13inch mac laptop.
Looks like I’m getting a Nokia!
Hey Mike don’t you think it’s time to forgive Nokia and get a 810?
Non-Palm people will yawn and move on. But this is earthshaking info. It’s not bogus marketing stuff to say that Palm users swim in a virtual sea of really useful Palm programs freely (or cheaply) available. While my 770 and 800 Nokias will probably still keep gathering dust because they don’t have phones built in…the potential of this move…migrating all up to date Palm software to Nokia smartphones is astounding. Thanks for covering this news.
Great news. This brigs me great memories of my tapwave zodiac.
I’ll be trying this soon. It would be sweet if you could use the nokia keyboard on the palm software but I’m not holding my breath waiting for that.
For Gods sake don’t convince Cane to get another Nokia – he didn’t have the wit to use the last one and has whined about it ever since. He’s a Palm fanboi, leave him be… his whinings amongst a dying community is the best place for him.
No he is not exactly a Palm fanboy and lately has been having Apple Iphone urges. I think this is just what he needs to bring him back from the dark side and I think the current state of the developer community and the N810 hardware might be what he has been looking for. Besides I want him to start his blog up again talking about his new found romance with an 810. He is an interesting gadfly and not afraid to say the emperor has no clothes.
come to the light Mike!
I think Nokia has overcome my one problem with their device. My problem was no ereader support. But now I can run all my old palm software. I kinda wish I didn’t sell my old nokia. Good thing I got a nice bonus today.
Two in one reply:
>>>Hey Mike don’t you think it’s time to forgive Nokia and get a 810?
Nokia will NEVER be forgiven. I will spit on that company’s eventual bankruptcy and dissolution. Period.
>>>don’t convince Cane to get another Nokia – he didn’t have the wit to use the last one
You are a dope. I used the bloody EFF out of that piece of crap. Educate yourself, eejit.
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/nokia-770-the-endgame/
Right. I’ve tried it on the 770:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/comments/9526/#139237
yes but why waste your time trying to get it to work on a 770 that is a POS anyway get an N800 at least and preferably a N810.
The best operating system to use on the Nokia is the New 2008 vers which can be downloaded now.
Previous IT OS’s are problematic- no wonder you had problems. Oh and you can get a full screen image of the Palm emulator. Its counter intuitive but you have to uncheck the full screen option which forces a full image of a Palm PDA on the screen and the usable area is very small, uncheck that and the usable screen is acceptable. It’s a very nice program