Get your Crunchy Classic Questions Answered 11
Curious about just how much Classic can handle, PalmOS-wise? MotionApps has you covered with another Q&A with crunchier details about the system. Good news: full access to the network, ability to run both ARM and 68k code, direct screen memory access, support for email clients, and no Blazer (come on: you know that's good news in your heart of hearts). Bad news: still no direct interaction with webOS, no ability to run multiple instances of Classic (a limitation of the webOS, actually), no GPS, and no Bluetooth. That last bit is a bit of a bummer, as we'd been hoping we could use Classic and DocsToGo as a sneaky workaround to the lack of Bluetooth Keyboard support on the Pre.
The most notable: bit: when you think "Classic," think "Centro." As in: 320x320 screen support.
Have a questions about Classic? We have a direct bat-phone-style line, so post up what you want to know in our comments (or hit us up on the contact form) and we'll do our level best to get an answer for you. In the meantime, we've already covered the basics in our "How To: Copy Your PalmOS Treo or Centro Apps into Classic on the webOS" article.



























11 Comments
My instinctive response is also that I'm ready to move on and not look back...but on further thought, I ended up suspecting I'll be buying Classic just to ease the transition.
One of the must-have applications for me is a good ebook reader, and while I'm sure one or more will be available eventually, I haven't seen any hints that there'll be one on launch day. With classic I can bring Mobipocket, eReader and TealDoc along to use until a WebOS solution is available.
I'm sure there are a lot of folks in a similar situation with whatever their "must-have" application is - wanting a native WebOS version, but willing to use an emulator on that application for a while, as they suck up all the WebOS newness for everything else.
Well... no GPS, no Bt... if my TomTom runs in classic I'll be coming back and really wanting GPS or Bt... ;-)
But for now what I want to know, or better, what I want to have confirmed is that sound works!!
Until I'm able to use the Pre with my Slingbox, I'm afraid I won't be upgrading from my Treo 700p. If it works through Classic, then I am sold.
Is classic support Chinese fonts natively? or could user install CJKOS on it to view/edit Chinese fonts?