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Old 06-26-2005, 12:29 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Laurens
Then why do you have 20 handhelds?
Because development on them requires physical access to the hardware, to work around OS-level issues that are inconsistent with what is documented in the Palm SDK, from an on-Palm and conduit-level perspective. The T2 and T3 for example, are DRAMATICALLY different when you start poking at the actual low-level OS functions (not the application data, but actual OS functions themselves).

An OS 3.3 device for example will hard-reset if you try to call SetSysDateTime, but it works on the Emulator and on 3.2 and later versions. Its things exactly like this that drive the need to have physical access to the device hardware itself.
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