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    New "Nova" Palm OS Confirmed for CES 2009

    A scheduled Businessweek feature broke at midnight about Palm OS, and the subhed confirms that it will be shown at CES. The facts are thin, but they're below.

    • "the goal is to create products that bridge the gap between Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry devices, oriented to work and e-mail, and Apple's iPhone, oriented to fun."
    • The article implies that the platform would be capable of acting as an OS for not only smartphones, but gameboy like consoles and e-book readers.
    • Palm believes they can grab 2% of the market; that RIM will dominate the majority of share and the iPhone will have 10%.
    • The OS would also help phones make "smarter use of data about you. For example, your smartphone could send you an e-mail the day before your next business trip, advising you on the weather conditions in your destination city."

    [Businessweek via Engadget]


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