Comments on: Palm CEO Ed Colligan talks up Linux-based Palm OS 2.0 – Nova

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:56:14 +0000

I’m with Randy on this one. I got tired of waiting and turned in my Treo 680 for the ATT Tilt. Great phone, but the Windows Mobile software is terrible. It was glitchy as hell on my phone, but worse, it’s just not very intuitive. After a week I ran back to the store to retrieve my 680. It was gone and I settled on a Centro. I feel so much better now, my only fear is that the new OS may not be as easy as the old one. In any case, I’m willing to wait.

By: randygrenier

randygrenier — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:28:01 +0000

Nova comes from latin and means “new.” It also means a star which suddenly increases in brightness thousands of times. Everybody likes to bash Palm. They’re doing the right thing by not releasing the new OS until its ready.

My Treos have been great FUNCTIONAL phones. I’ve been listening to MP3’s on my Palm phones for years before anyone ever heard of iPods. I’ve been syncing to Outlook at work for years (only newly available in iPhone 3G). Bash away. I’m still getting good use for both work and personal.

After the adolescent boys get over the thrill of their new Apple toys, the Palm Nova or Palm 2 or whatever its called may be the best, most useful, highly-functional smart phone around.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:18:33 +0000

Sorry. I’m from Spain and I’m not thinking in the meaning “Palm doesn’t work” when I listen “Palm Nova”.
The first thought for a spanish person is “Palm Nuevo” that in English means “New Palm”.
To probe this see this examples.

A TV channel from Spain: wwww.antena3.com/PortalA3com/nova/

A Histoy magazine from Spain: hispanianova.rediris.es/

A publishing house very famous in spain: ww.lexnova.es/

A radio station in Spain: http://www.novaonda.net/

A Spanish company: http://www.novaenergia.org/

Etc. Etc. Etc. etc……..
It is ridiculous.

By: karmapolis

karmapolis — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:56:18 +0000

Hmmm. “Nova” is a funny choice for a name of such a long-delayed product. “No va” means no-go in Spanish.