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Other PDAs > News > Run Palm OS Software on Nokia Devices Run Palm OS Software on Nokia Devices
By James Alan Miller
This is significant because Garnet VM makes it possible for these Linux-run tablets - the N770, N800 and N810 - to run the over 30,000 applications developed for the Palm OS over the years, greatly increasing the amount of software available to users of these Wi-Fi (not cellular) wireless devices. Some of the most popular applications (i.e. Google Maps, Snappermail, DateBk5 as well as games like Bejeweled, PacMan, and Sudoku) on the market aren't available for Nokia's tablets. With Garnet VM installed, they now are, according to ACCESS. For the last couple of years, ACCESS has been developing and fine-tuning its follow up to the Palm OS, the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP). Today's announcement grew out of that work. That’s because ALP includes three runtime environments, Garnet VM, Java and native Linux. Like with the Nokia tablets, the Garnet VM will allow ALP users to run Palm OS software. (Palm’s got its own Linux-based Palm OS II in the works too. It promises its platform, which we may not see until 2009, will support Palm OS Garnet applications as well.)
In addition to benefiting Nokia tablet users by giving them access to a wider swath of software, Garnet VM is also a win for Palm OS developers; a group ACCESS would like to keep happy, in addition to developing for ALP when the time comes.
ACCESS senior VP Didier Diaz says Garnet VM will give developers a larger installed base of devices; and it will enable “Access to fine-tune Garnet VM based on customer feedback.” You can download the beta of Garnet VM now from the ACCESS Web site. There's a different version of the beta software for each of the three Nokia Internet Tablets. ACCES also has a Compatibility Survey (feedback form) up on its site for those participating in the beta program to fill out. The final edition of Garnet VM should become available as a free download before the close of 2007, ACCESS says. See the links below for more on the N770, N800 and N810 as well as ALP and Garnet VM. Related Links:
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