Palm / Kyocera - Want A Look At A NEW, Integrated, Palm OS-based Phone?
Most PDA users know that Palm was the first to market with an integrated PDA cell phone solution. After the Handspring Treo was released last year, the flood gates opened, and now we are seeing all kinds of designs that attempt to merge a cell phone and a PDA into one device.
Kyocera takes a radical new approach with the introduction of the new 7135, which combines a color Palm PDA and flip phone into one unique package. The size is a little thicker than we perhaps expected, but the overall result is good. If you thought that the Treo was too big, or you can live without your keypad, this might be the device for you.
The Kyocera 7135 combines a PDA and flip phone into one innovative package.
Many people might have wondered what Palm was doing here, but the truth is that they were trying to drum up developer support for the new Palm OS 5, which will feature support for both the Intel PXA250 and PXA210 processors. The new Palm OS 5 will continue to offer support for older applications that were designed to run on the Palm OS 4.0 platform. Of course, the introduction of the Palm OS on these processors will give companies another, more powerful processor choice around which to design their next generation PDAs.
