Motorola Q9H/Q2 for Sprint will run Palm OS?
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, November 10th, 2007 at 5:59 AM PST In Devices, Motorola, Palm OS, Rumors, Sprint
File this under “unlikely to happen,” but if you look at the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Q9h (or Q2 as they call it) on Sprint’s Christmas teaser site, you’ll notice the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) OS like icons. Can you imagine Motorola using Palm OS on its devices? Now that would be something especially for the image of the struggling Palm (Japan’s Access is the owner of Palm OS). Still, somehow we don’t see that happening — Motorola has its own Linux platform and also licences Symbian (UIQ) and Windows Mobile, do they really need to support another mobile OS?
Then again, who knows — maybe Motorola wants to differentiate its offering by awkwardly offering the same device running multiple operating systems. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. However, if this ends up happening – we may have a new Palm OS champion – Motorola! 
[Via: Gizmodo]
Dusan,
A couple of basic points.
Palm is not the owner of Palm OS, Access is. So if anyone would benefit from more companies using Palm OS, access would.
Yeah you’re right, I know that — but then again it would be somewhat beneficial for Palm to have its (previously owned) OS beyonds its own devices again.