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Palm and Nokia rumors flying around again

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 PM

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They aren’t going to do it. Period.

I’ll be happy if I’m proved wrong however.

Palm knows how to make a touch screen OS. They’ve had a decades worth of experience in that department.

Whatever the outcome may be I just want to say that a touch screen when used in combination with hard keys, like a Treo for example, is the best way of interacting with a device. I’m excited to see what S60 comes out with.

As far as I’m concerned they have a lot of catching up to do with Windows Mobile and more importantly UIQ who are rapidly growing in popularity.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • cybette

    I’ve heard rumours too… but just *rumours*. Might be a good move to help Nokia’s presence in U.S.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Wouldn’t it be fantastic if Nokia could make an emulation layer that would make Palm applications work on S60?!

    You could use your joystick to control a pointer on screen.

  • cybette

    damn, you are the ideas guy, aren’t you? :)

  • Henrikki

    Why would Nokia be forced to buy Palm to make that emulation layer? Can’t it be done now as things stand?

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I’m sure it can, but wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you could hire the people who designed the Palm OS?

  • Deckard

    And wouldn’t these be the same people who have abjectly failed to design anything else since the Palm OS?

    Not sure it would be too wise an investment unless it was for chump change.