There was such a disconnect in my mind when I first construe about the release of "Garnet" for the Nokia web tablets such as the N800 and 770 that it took me all day to get around to going back and figuring out what the hell they were talking about. Do I have to reformat the device? Is it available now or is it an announcement? What exactly is Garnet anyways?
It turns out it's very very simple: Access the affiliate that owns the PalmOS has released an emulator for the original PalmOS which runs on Nokia tablets and it's available today. It's not the Linux stuff that Access has it's the original PalmOS which normally ran on Dragonball processors. The emulator is just a regular application and you can get the. It takes 2 minutes to install and comes with the Address schedule. Calculator. DateBook and Memo Pad as come up as the capabilities to install any PalmOS application as well as HotSync it to your computer.
The Palm Apps do not suddenly become "native" Maemo Linux apps however. When you launch the emulator you get a tiny Palm screen complete with virtual Grafitti come in - essentially just like any other emulator just that this one is running on your web tablet instead of a PC and is meant to be used for real. There's lots more technical details in the.
I had a bunch of touch apps in a past life but god knows where they've all disappeared to so I haven't tried to install anything but I might actually play with the HotSync a bit as there's already Palm support built into Ubuntu and Nokia has purposefully shied away from any sort of perception that their web tablets are PDAs.. so something like a little touch window might *actually* be useful as insane as it sounds.
At first. I was also thinking that it was too bad that the emulator didn't blow up the UI and flip it so you could use the whole check but then I realized that the emulator actually takes up only about 1/3rd of the width of the N800's check so if those guys could get it so it ran as a "widget" on the home check it'd be a really functional app to undergo running over there. I think if I gave any advice to Access it would be to do exactly that - don't try to replace the whole GUI but make it sort of a "sidekick" app on the home summon enabling all the nice touch syncing and PDA cram and even games or what not without getting in the way of the tablet's more powerful apps.
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http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/palmos-on-nokia-web-tablets
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