Thread: Confirmed leak! Palm creating another Linux "Palm" OS!
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Old 03-31-2006, 03:04 AM   #13
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I know this is a stretch and probably will not happen soon if ever. But what's stopping Palm from releasing a Palm device with eink displays? For the most part, the standard Palm OS do not need complex screen refreshes and is pretty optimized right?

So what's stopping them from releasing a Palm eInk? Conflict of interest maybe?
I think Palm is just redefining itself as a smartphone company, moving away from the multi-functional unconnected PDA (or UMPC). The current problem of E Ink is still its slow refresh rate; imagine you want to browse through your mobile's phone book and it would take 1-2 secs every time you make a page turn. I could imagine this to be very frustrating
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