PalmOne, recently renamed
"Palm", has not tipped its hand at this point. Last fall, a company executive
reportedly declined to comment on rumors that PalmOne was developing a Pocket PC version of the Treo, while characterizing the company as "platform agnostic" and "open to evaluating products using additional operating systems."
Gartner
reported earlier this year that Windows CE pushed ahead of PalmOS to become the top OS shipped in PDAs worldwide in 2004, and recently noted that Palm's quarterly PDA market share
plummeted from 41.8 percent in the second quarter of 2004 to just 18.8 percent in the same quarter of this year.
Meanwhile,
LinuxDevices.com reports that PalmSource, which maintains the Palm OS,
recently reorganized itself to focus entirely on a new mobile device software architecture that will use Palm OS as a middleware application platform layer running on top of an embedded Linux operating system.
The latest
Engadget videos that appear to show a Treo-like device running Windows Mobile are available
here.
Is Palm OS, as a mobile device operating system, nearing its end?
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