Being the resident Palm OS freak in my circle of friends, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what’s going to happen to PDAs in light of Sony’s announcement that it won’t be producing any new CLIÉ models in the United States this year. Here’s a question I received from a friend via email:
Does [...]
September 15, 2003 – 12:39 pm
Ryan Kairer has posted some excellent first impressions of the Sony CLIÉ UX50. Although it sounds like Sony’s dropped the ball again in a couple of small areas (poor navigation using the keyboard, ludicrously tiny stylus), it still sounds like a very solid and useful handheld.
August 18, 2003 – 1:20 pm
Sony’s Hong Kong site has far more information about the upcoming PEG-UX50 than the US site. It’s also got about three times as much marketing fluff, but scattered amid the fluff is a wealth of actual facts about the new handheld. It’s a shame the US marketing department can’t be bothered to go to this [...]
Mobile Wizardry, brainchild of Aaron Ardiri and other Palm OS game developers, has announced the release of SHARK, a multi-platform development kit for handheld devices.
Unlike prior attempts at achieving this goal (J2ME, AppForge, and CASL, among others), there is no bulky runtime to install, and SHARK is designed to play to the strengths of each [...]