Palm postpones next OS version until 2008: is that ‘Taps’ playing?

Palm_logoAfter talking to the Palm folks and fingering the Foleo last week, I can cut them a little break, but I can’t see the positive news in the latest letdown reported by Brighthand. Earlier this year, we heard from Palm that they’d have new products launched with a brand-new, Linux-based OS. Hope you wrote your potential purchase plans in pencil because the company isn’t going to meet the self-imposed deadline on the OS, so there’s no product for it in 2007.

Between the cold response to the Foleo announcement and the overdue maintenance releases with issues, now’s the time to manage expectations, not fail to meet them. Let’s hope for a turnaround or some positive news; it would be a tragic shame to see a company that defined the handheld space to die a slow, painful death.

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