Re: [NTLK] OT Palm Pre

From: Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net>
Date: Sat Jul 18 2009 - 03:09:44 EDT

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM, <Reilly001os@aol.com> wrote:
> None of the ones I had could take an upgrade, was there ever a palm that could take an OS upgrade?

Newtons couldn't either--ok, I paid $100 to have my MP120 upgraded to
NOS 2.0, but that was a hardware change as much as anything. The only
other system upgrade I recall Apple offering was a similar upgrade of
the MP2000 to MP2100. Handhelds have/had their OS in ROM, not easy to
upgrade. Since the iPhone and Pre have their OS in software, it is
actually possible. BTW, there is already a WebOS 1.1 out there, so it
looks like they will be improving--probably slower than Apple, though.
Palm doesn't have anywhere near the resources that Apple has to bring
to bear to these things.

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 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass@usa.net>
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