05.29.08
Posted in Applications at 11:38 pm by Jonathan Greene
I got an email about the release of the new beta (2) for the Palm Garnet VM and checked it out briefly tonight. The main features seem to be functioning in full screen mode in either portrait or landscape which is slick. You’ll of course have access to the full library of Palm applications which is nice, though honestly as interesting as that seems the low-res nature of things compared to how my Maemo apps view on the N810 kills this for me … that and it’s been several years since I actively cared about Palm OS.
I did a quick install of ChatterMail and connected to my Gmail IMAP account. Seemed to generally work as expected though between the richer native web UI or Modest this still remains a proof of concept.
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Garnet Virtual Machine b2 for Nokia N8xx released. May 29, 2008 Bryan Nystrom General No Comments Jonathan Green*, an online friend of mine who is heavily into all things Nokia, has posted ashort write-upwith his thoughts on the latest beta release of the Garnet VM. The Garnet VM allows those that own devices such as the Nokia N800 and N810 tables to run Palm OS5 applications in a virtual machine. If you are familiar with
I use Garnet for one thing: Handyshopper. I have yet to find a better shopping list manager on any deviice and it is the only Palm application installed on my tablet. It would be nice if Garnet had some sort of wrapper where I could just launch handyshopper, but I will definitely take the full screen improvement. That will be so much nicer than the tiny 1/4 screen space it was using before.
There are also some ebook formats still supported on Palm that are not available in maemo, so I may even look into those. Can´t really see using it for mail or PIM applications, though.
Good point on the ebooks … eReader Pro is really nice and something I’ve missed for a long time on subsequent devices
My N770 is kind of slow with Python applications so I have been using Palm Bible instead of Rapier (it’s search function works well, but GUI is not very responsive) with my tablet. So for me it’s good news. And Handyshopper is a good idea also.
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