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The new Web OS represents Palm’s bid to retake the huge chunk of the smartphone market that it has lost to the likes of Nokia, RIM (BlackBerry), and the iPhone over the years. Together with the newly announced Palm Pre smartphone, the Web OS offers a slick, gesture-based UI that’s at once intuitive and incredibly powerful.
The all-new Web OS, built on a Linux kernel, is designed to work intuitively with a capacitance touchscreen and invites the web-developer community to make native applications using web-languages like HTML and CSS. The Palm Web OS’s application framework – the Mojo Application Framework – is based on HTML5, CSS, and Javascript standards that web developers are likely already using.
Palm’s apparent aim with the Mojo Application Framework is to leverage the familiarity of web-development tools to create a diverse range of Web OS applications. Mojo allows developers to make use of devices services like mail, contacts, calendars, and finger gestures to create powerful applications using a familiar web-language. We’re looking to Palm to do big things in 2009!
Find out more about the Palm Mojo Application Framework here.
[Via: PhoneScoop]
About The Author
Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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