Palm Computing

Sep 03, 2020 The original Pilot ran Palm OS 1.0 on top of a Motorola 68328 CPU running at 16 MHz. It had a 160x160 pixel monochrome touchscreen LCD accompanied by the Graffiti input zone. It was powered by two. Palm OS software, free download. Soft32, a pioneer of downloads and reviews website, delivers up-to-date software, free downloads and reviews for Windows and more.

The company Palm Computing was founded by Jeff Hawkins in 1992 and Donna Dubinsky was appointed as CEO. At first Palm develops the applications software for numerous handheld models. Palm Computing can be defined as a pioneer in the market of mobile and cordless small computersWith the self developed operating system Palm OS® for handhelds it is possible to having permanently important data handily and mobile available. Palm OS works as a personal assistant for the information management. From more than 7,000 applications in April 2001 the number has increased to more than 18,000 in July 2003. The combination of Palm OS with a handheld makes the intuitive and simple operation possible at high battery runtime. Because Palm OS resides in a ROM, the hardware reset puts the PDA into the origin status, all modifications and after installed applications are removed from that battery buffered non-persistent memory. Palm OS has a flexible, open architecture, the maximum resolution on the monochrome LCD are only 160x160 pixels.
Palm was bought in June 1996 of U.S.-Robotics. The first Palm Pilot was released in March 1996. In May 1997 the 3Com Corp. acquire the company U.S. Robotics with Palm Computing. The Palm III organizer is introduced to the public in March 1998. Palm OS 3.x uses features of the AMX kernel of the company Kadak. Because of licence conditions only singletasking is possible for applications. To solve this restriction, Palm OS 5.x uses the own developed Kernel MCK with the ability of multitasking for applications.
Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky leave 3Com corporation in November 1998 and set up the company Handspring, Inc. which becomes a licensee of 3Coms Palm OS. In March 2000 the company Palm Inc. is founded by 3Com as an independent subsidiary firm, main field of enterprise is the development of Palm OS based PDA devices. The market share of Palm OS was 65 percent in 2000 (source: Gartner). Important business and technology partners are for example Handspring, IBM, Kyocera, Sony, Samsung and Symbol Technologies. Handheld models with DragonBall or ARM CPUs (supported since Palm OS 4.0) are the Palm IIIe, IIIx, IIIxe, IIIc, V, Vx and m100.
The foundation of the subsidiary Palm was completed successfully at the beginning of 2002. The company Palm was renamed in PalmSource (Inc.) in May 2002. Palm OS was ready for further device manufacturers for independently licensing. The device manufacturer Palm Solutions announced in June 2003 to take over the company Handspring. Palm had completed the take-over of Handspring in August 2003 and renamed for the area of hardware to PalmOne and for software and Palm OS to PalmSource. Mayn investor at PalmSource is Sony. PalmSource buys China MobileSoft (CMS) in January 2005.
Update July 2003: Till now, Palm OS was sold almost 30 million times, more than 260,000 developers support Palm OS and applications. New handheld models are the Zire 71, Tungsten C and Tungsten T with an ARM9 CPU.
The worldwide sales of PDA devices in quantities spread out as follows in comparison of the previous year to the 1st quarter 2004 (source: Gartner).
Palm OS fell from 49% (1Q03) to 41% (1Q04), Windows CE got itself of 37% by 3%, devices with RIM (Research In Motion) increased from 3% to 15%. Devices with Linux stayed approximately constantly with 2%, other operating systems fell from 9% to 2%.

(a) Button for contrast control
(b) On-/Off button and Lighting
(c) Display
(d) Holder for the pen
(e) Write range with the system symbols,
Application Launcher, Menu, Calculator and Search
(f) Key field and scroll button
The Palm computer had a sensitive display area which serves at the same time for the representation. By the key field the direct access to the calendar, adress book, task list and nbotices is possible. To install new programs (file format *.prc) a PC with installed Palm desktop software is required, which is used to install the programs about the Hotsync process. The synchronisation of the notes and dates for example between the PC and Palm happens the same time, the deinstallation of programs can be done directly in Palm OS.
PalmSource belongs to the Japanese software provider Access since September 2005. Palm OS is renamed in Garnet OS on January 25th, 2007, old equipment with a Palm OS and new equipment of Access are indicated by the logo 'Access Powered'. Till now, the version 6 of Palm OS was not successful.
GarnetOS supports different screen resolutions like 160x160 to 320x480 pixel in grey color or 16-bit colour depth. Wireless connections, IrDA, Bluetooth and WLAN are available for data interchange. The architecture based on 32-bit ARM 4T processors, the 16-bit ARM version is also supported. Executing of 68k applications allows the Pace (Palm Application Compatibility Environment) utility.
This operating system needs at least 4 mbyte flash ROM and 1 mbyte RAM to work. The GarnetOS covers less than 300 kbytes of RAM and can manage up to 128 mbyte RAM.
The Palm OS successor 'Access Linux Platform' (ALP) was published in the version 1.0 in February 2007. ALP consists of the Linux operating system, a GTK+ Toolkit and the emulation layer 'Access Garnet of Virtual Machine' to execute applications for Palm OS and GarnetOS.

Screenshots

PalmOS 3.5 - Start logo of PalmOS	PalmOS 3.5 - Application information of PalmOS	PalmOS 3.5 - System icons, time, battery load and Category selection	PalmOS 3.5 - Options display of the menu icon
PalmOS 3.5 - eMail box

This is a list of Palm OS devices, and companies that make, or have made, them.

Abacus/Fossil, Inc.[edit]

Fossil, made Wrist PDAs that use the Palm OS operating system.(Discontinued)

• AU5005—Palm OS 4.1
• AU5006—Palm OS 4.1
• AU5008—Palm OS 4.1
• FX2008—Palm OS 4.1
• FX2009—Palm OS 4.1

Aceeca[edit]

• Meazura—Palm OS 4.1.2
• PDA32—Garnet OS 5.4

Acer[edit]

• S10/S11/S12—Palm OS 4.1 - first Chinese Palm
• S50/S55—Palm OS 4.1, color Hi-Res screen
• S60/S65—Palm OS 4.1, MP3 player, voice recorder, color Hi-Res screen

AlphaSmart[edit]

• Dana—Palm OS 4.1.2 - small 'laptop' running Palm OS with a 560x160 pixel greyscale LCD, full-sized keyboard, two SD card slots, 8MiB or 16Mib memory, powered by NiMH or 3 x AA battery or wall adapter
• Dana Wireless—Palm OS 4.1.2, same features as Dana plus Wi-Fi, 16MiB memory, SDIO support, widescreen launcher

Garmin[edit]

PDA with integrated GPS.

• iQue 3600a—Palm OS 5.4
• iQue3600—Palm OS 5.2.1
• iQue 3200—Palm OS 5.2.1
• iQue 3000—Palm OS 5.2.1

Group Sense PDA[edit]

Smartphones with Palm OS [1]

• Xplore G18—Palm OS 4.1 (candybar, 2.2' 176x240 16-bit TFT, CIF camera, Dragonball VZ 33MHz, 16MB RAM, 4MB OS flash)
• Xplore G88—Palm OS 4.1 (slider, 2.2' 176x240 16-bit TFT, CIF camera, Dragonball VZ 33MHz, 16MB RAM, 4MB OS flash, 24MB user flash appearing as an internal SD card)
• Xplore M28—Palm OS 5.4 (slider, 2.2' 176x240 16-bit TFT, VGA camera, ARM9 CPU, 32MB NVFS storage, SD/MMC card slot)
• Xplore M68—Palm OS 5.4 (candybar, 2.2' 176x240 16-bit TFT, 1.3MP camera, ARM9 CPU, SD/MMC card slot)
• Xplore M70—Palm OS 5.4 (candybar, 2.2' 176x240 16-bit TFT, 1.3MP camera with video recording, ARM9 CPU, SD/MMC card slot)
• Xplore M70S—Palm OS 5.4 hardware same as M70 with security firmware update
• Xplore M98—Palm OS 5.4 (flip, 2.2' 176x240 16-bit TFT inside, 96x96 outside, 1.3MP camera, ARM9 CPU, 32MB NVFS storage, microSD card slot)

Handera/TRG[edit]

• TRGpro—Palm OS 3.5.3 - introduced standard (CF) Card slot (company was at that time TRG (Technology Resource Group))
• Handera 330—Palm OS 3.5.3
• Handera 330c— never released

Handspring[edit]

The inventors of the Palm formed a new company called Handspring in June 1998, operating until 2003 when it merged with Palm, Inc.'s hardware division.

Treo[edit]

Smartphones (except 90)

• Treo 90—Palm OS 4.1H, can be updated to 4.1H3 which adds SDIO support
• Treo 180—Palm OS 3.5.2H
• Treo 180g—Palm OS 3.5.2H The Treo 180 with graffiti area, rather than a thumbboard
• Treo 270—Palm OS 3.5.2H
• Treo 300—Palm OS 3.5.2H6.2
• Treo 600—Palm OS 5.2.1H

Visor[edit]

Visors introduced color cases and the Springboard Expansion slot.

• Visor Solo 2Mb, B&W -- Palm OS 3.1H2
• Visor Deluxe 8Mb, B&W -- Palm OS 3.1H2
• Visor Edge 8Mb, B&W -- Palm OS 3.5.2H2 thin, sleek, metal case
• Visor Neo 8Mb, B&W -- Palm OS 3.5.2H3
• Visor Platinum 8Mb, B&W -- Palm OS 3.5.2H
• Visor Pro 16Mb, B&W -- Palm OS 3.5.2H3
• Visor Prism 8Mb, 64k color (world's 1st 16 bit color Palm) -- Palm OS 3.5.2H

IBM[edit]

IBM's Workpad series was nearly identical to PDAs manufactured by Palm. The main difference were color and logo on the casing.

WorkPad[edit]

• WorkPad (rebadged PalmPilot)
• WorkPad 20X (rebadged Palm III)
• WorkPad 30X (rebadged Palm IIIx)
• WorkPad c3 (rebadged Palm V/Vx) thin, sleek, metal case
• WorkPad c500 (rebadged Palm m500) thin, sleek, metal case
• WorkPad c505 (rebadged Palm m505) thin, sleek, metal case

Janam[edit]

• XP20—Palm OS 5.4.9, B&W 160x160 screen, two variants: one with a full keyboard, one with partial
• XP30—Palm OS 5.4.9, Color 240x160 screen, two variants: one with a full keyboard, one with partial

Kyocera[edit]

Smartphones

• QCP-6035—Palm OS 3.5.3
• QCP-7135—Palm OS 4.1

Legend Group[edit]

• Pam 168—Palm OS 4.1

Lenovo[edit]

Chinese PDAs

• p100—Palm OS 5.3
• p200—Palm OS 5.3
• p300—Palm OS 5.3

Palm, Inc. & PalmOne, Inc.[edit]

• Pilot 1000 (as division of U.S. Robotics) -- Palm OS 1.0 - 16 MHz, 128 KB RAM
• Pilot 5000 (as division of U.S. Robotics) -- Palm OS 1.0 - 512 KB RAM
• PalmPilot Personal (as division of U.S. Robotics) -- Palm OS 2.0 - 512 KB RAM, Backlight
• PalmPilot Professional (as division of U.S. Robotics) -- Palm OS 2.0 - 1 MB RAM, Backlight
• Palm III—Palm OS 3.0 - 2 MB RAM (update possible to 3.3 (website))
• Palm IIIc—Palm OS 3.5.3 - Palm's 1st color screen, 4k-color
• Palm IIIe—Palm OS 3.1 - '2 MB RAM', No flash OS Upgrade
• Palm IIIx—Palm OS 3.1 - 4 MB RAM (update possible to 3.3 (website) or 4.1 (CD))

• Palm IIIxe—Palm OS 3.5 - 8 MB RAM (update possible to 4.1 (CD) & a 3.5 patch Available from website (3.5.3))
• Palm V—Palm OS 3.1 (later 3.3) - thin, sleek, metal case
• Palm VII—Palm OS 3.2 - Palm.netWireless
• Palm VIIx Palm OS 3.5 (update possible to 3.5.3) - Palm.netWireless
• Palm Vx—Palm OS 3.3 (update possible to 3.5 and then 3.5.3 (website) or 4.1 (CD)) 8Mb RAM & B&W screen thin, sleek, metal case
• Palm m100—Palm OS 3.5 2Mb RAM & B&W screen
• Palm m105—Palm OS 3.5 8Mb RAM & B&W screen
• Palm m125—Palm OS 4.0 8Mb RAM & B&W screen
• Palm m130—Palm OS 4.1 8Mb RAM & color screen, 4k-color
• Palm m500—Palm OS 4.0 (later 4.1) 8Mb RAM & B&W screen thin, sleek, metal case
• Palm m505—Palm OS 4.0 8Mb RAM & color screen, 4k-color thin, sleek, metal case
• Palm m515—Palm OS 4.1 16Mb RAM & color screen, 4k-color thin, sleek, metal case
• Palm i705—Palm OS 4.1 - Palm.netWireless
• Palm Centro—Palm OS 5.4.9 & MP3 player & 64k color screen (combo Cell phone+PDA similar to the Treo line)

Zire[edit]

The Zire series, replaced by the 'Z' series in 2005, are the lower end Palm models. Some have color screens (some 160x160, some 320x320), some B&W (at 160x160).

• Zire (also known as m150) -- Palm OS 4.1
• Zire 21—Palm OS 5.2.8
• Palm Z22—Palm OS 5.4.9 - New PIM - NVFS
• Zire 31—Palm OS 5.2.8 - New PIM & MP3 player
• Zire 71—Palm OS 5.2.1 & VGA digi-cam & MP3 player
• Zire 72 and 72s—Palm OS 5.2.8 - New PIM & 1.3Mp digi-cam & MP3 player; the only Bluetooth Zire

Tungsten[edit]

The Tungsten series are the high end Palm models, with ARM/RISC processors (except T|W), high-resolution color screens, and SD memory cards.

• Tungsten C -- Palm OS 5.2.1 - 400 MHz, 64 MiB RAM, Graffiti 2, keyboard, Wi-Fi
• Tungsten E -- Palm OS 5.2.1
• Tungsten E2 -- Palm OS 5.4.7 - NVFS, Bluetooth, RealPlayer-branded MP3 player
• Tungsten T (also known as m550) -- Palm OS 5.0 - 320x320 screen, Slider case, Voice Recorder
• Tungsten T2 -- Palm OS 5.2.1 - 32MiB RAM, Graffiti 2
• Tungsten T3 -- Palm OS 5.2.1 - 320x480 screen, Slider case & MP3 player
• Tungsten T5 -- Palm OS 5.4.0 (5.4.8 with version 1.1 update) - NVFS, internal USB flash drive & MP3 player
• Tungsten W -- Palm OS 4.1 - Keyboard, ~Cell service, SD Card
• Palm TX -- Palm OS 5.4.9 - NVFSBT, Wi-Fi & MP3 player

Treo[edit]

The Treo series are combo Cell Phones/PDA models, originally developed by Handspring.

• Treo 600—Palm OS 5.2.1H - (The first models were 'Handspring'-branded, later models were 'Palm'-branded.)
• Treo 650—Palm OS 5.4, 5.4.5 or 5.4.8 depending on specific carrier version
• Treo 680—Palm OS 5.4.9
• Treo 700p—Palm OS 5.4.9
• Treo 755p—Palm OS 5.4.9

LifeDrive[edit]

• LifeDrive—Palm OS 5.4.8 - 4GB Harddrive

Qool[edit]

• QDA 700—Palm OS 5.4.1 - Cell Phone

Qualcomm[edit]

Smartphones, later sold to Kyocera

• pdQ 1900^[1][2] (single-mode CDMA 1900 MHz digital PCS)—Palm OS 3.0
• pdQ 800^[3][2] (dual-mode 800 MHz digital/analog PCS)—Palm OS 3.0

Samsung[edit]

Smartphones

• SPH-i300—Palm OS 3.5
• SPH-i330—Palm OS 3.5.3
• SCH-M330—Palm OS 3.5.3 - Scheduled for release in South Korea
• SPH-i500—Palm OS 4.1
• SPH-i550—Palm OS 5.2 - never released.
• SCH-M500—Palm OS 5.2 - Scheduled for release in South Korea in mid-July 2004.^[4]
• SGH-i500—Palm OS 5.2 - never released
• SGH-i505—Palm OS 5.2 - never released
• SGH-i530—Palm OS 5.2 - never sold, only given away at Athens Olympics 2004
• SCH-i539—Palm OS 5.4.1 - Released in China

[edit]

Sony developed and marketed the CLIÉ multimedia PDA from 2000 to 2005.

N Series[edit]

• PEG-N610C—Palm OS 4.0
• PEG-N710C—Palm OS 3.5.2
• PEG-N760C—Palm OS 4.1S & MP3 player

NR Series[edit]

• PEG-NR70—Palm OS 4.1S
• PEG-NR70V—Palm OS 4.1S

NX Series[edit]

• PEG-NX60—Palm OS 5.0 & MP3 player
• PEG-NX70V—Palm OS 5.0 & MP3 player & VGA digi-cam / camcorder
• PEG-NX73V—Palm OS 5.0 & MP3 player & VGA digi-cam / camcorder (/E european versions also had Bluetooth)
• PEG-NX80V—Palm OS 5.0 & MP3 player & 1.3 Mp digi-cam / camcorder

NZ Series[edit]

• PEG-NZ90—Palm OS 5.0 & MP3 player & 2 Mp digi-cam / camcorder

S Series[edit]

• PEG-S300—Palm OS 3.5S
• PEG-S320—Palm OS 4.0S
• PEG-S360—Palm OS 4.0S
• PEG-S500C—Palm OS 3.5S

SJ Series[edit]

• PEG-SJ20—Palm OS 4.1
• PEG-SJ22—Palm OS 4.1
• PEG-SJ30—Palm OS 4.1
• PEG-SJ33—Palm OS 4.1

SL Series[edit]

• PEG-SL10—Palm OS 4.1 & B&W paper-white screen

Palm Os

T Series[edit]

• PEG-T400—Palm OS 4.1 & vibe-alarm feature thin, sleek, metal case, B&W HiRes screen (Japanese)
• PEG-T415—English ROM version of the PEG-T400
• PEG-T425—European version of T415
• PEG-T600C—Palm OS 4.1 thin, sleek, metal case, Color HiRes screen (Japanese)
• PEG-T615C—English ROM version of the PEG-T600
• PEG-T625C—European version of T615C
• PEG-T665C—Palm OS 4.1 & MP3 player thin, sleek, metal case, Color HiRes screen
• PEG-T675C—European version of T665C

Palm Osrs

TG Series[edit]

• PEG-TG50—Palm OS 5.0

TH Series[edit]

• PEG-TH55—Palm OS 5.2.1 Wi-Fi (/E European versions also had Bluetooth)

TJ Series[edit]

• PEG-TJ25—Palm OS 5.2
• PEG-TJ27—Palm OS 5.2
• PEG-TJ35—Palm OS 5.2
• PEG-TJ37—Palm OS 5.2

UX Series[edit]

• PEG-UX40—Palm OS 5.2 & MP3 player
• PEG-UX50—Palm OS 5.2 & MP3 player

VZ Series[edit]

• PEG-VZ90—Palm OS 5.2.1

Symbol[edit]

PDA with integrated barcode reader

• SPT-1500—Palm OS 3.0.2r3
• SPT-1550—Palm OS 3.0
• SPT-1700—Palm OS 3.5
• SPT-1733—Palm OS 3.5.2
• SPT-1734—Palm OS 3.5.2
• SPT-1740—Palm OS 3.5
• SPT-1800—Palm OS 4.0
• SPT-1833—Palm OS 4.0
• SPT-1834—Palm OS 4.0
• SPT-1846—Palm OS 4.0

Tapwave[edit]

A PDA designed for handheld gaming. It was held sideways (landscape), had an analog joystick and extra gaming buttons, and used Bluetooth for multiplayer gaming as well as standard PDA functions. It also introduced a dedicated video chip, and dual SD card slots.

• Tapwave Zodiac 1 -- Palm OS 5.2T & MP3 player
• Tapwave Zodiac 2 -- Palm OS 5.2T & MP3 player

Oswin[edit]

Two models (candybar and slider) were demonstrated at PalmSource Euro Dev Con 2005 running PalmOS Cobalt 6.1.1 ^[5]A few were sold onsite. Oswin never produced more. These were the only PalmOS cobalt devices to be seen in the wild.The codename for the candybar version was Zircon A108

Emulators[edit]

• POSE (Palm OS Emulator)—Free Palm OS 4 emulator for PCs
• Palm OS Simulator—Palm OS 5 simulator for PCs
• StyleTap—for Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Android
• Garnet VM—for Access Linux Platform and Maemo
• Classic—for webOS-based Devices
• PHEM—for Android-based devices
• Cloudpilot—for web browsers and mobile devices

Palm Os Pda

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'CNN - The Qualcomm pdQ: Kill two birds with one phone - December 3, 1999'. archives.cnn.com. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
2. ^ ^ab'Qualcomm Unveils 'pdQ' CDMA Digital Smartphone'. Qualcomm. 1998-09-21. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
3. ^'Qualcomm PDQ 800'. National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
4. ^'NVIDIA GOFORCE 2100 SELECTED FOR PICTURE PERFECT SAMSUNG CAMERA PHONE'. HEXUS. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
5. ^http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9600/the-palm-os-cobalt-phones-that-never-were/

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