WebOS to Support Palm OS Emulation! 58
Update: Dieter has posted up his Palm Pre 3rd Party App Video Walkthrough! At the 9:25 minute mark is where you'll see Dieter attempt to touch the "Classic" icon, and asks what that is, and the guy tells him that they'll talk about that later. ;-)
Update 2: the Emulator will be supplied by MotionApps.
I just finished getting a great Palm Pre app walkthrough from Palm (video coming soon!), but this couldn't wait for the upload to finish. There was one app that Palm didn't want to talk about (but we suspect will be revealed tonight) the "Classic" icon you see above with a logo of a Palm device and a decidedly "Mac OS 9 Classic" feel to it.
Don't blink: Palm looks as though they are going to support PalmOS apps on the Pre and webOS via some sort of emulation app!
Since the day that Palm announced their new webOS, Palm loyalists have been hoping that the new platform would somehow support Palm OS emulation so that all our Palm OS apps would be compatible on the Pre and future Palm webOS devices. The Pre's app library just got a lot bigger.
(Per the comments, here is your obligatory "this is not an April Fool's Day Prank" disclaimer.)
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that's very exciting!!!
YES!
Sweet. What would be great is if you can push individual classic app icons to the launcher. I'm not positive, but I think I remember seeing that you're able to do that with individual web pages, so it would be a logical extension of that idea. Would make it a bit more seamless.
Now the only problem is that your fingers are a lot less accurate than a stylus, and a lot of Palm OS apps have really small targets. It's still better than not having them at all though.
Happy April Fools day!!!
APRIL FOOLS!
Hope it's not an April Fool's joke.
If true, this is huge for Palm... particularly if apps in that layer can run in background. Pre could become very intriguing indeed.
Personally, I have no interest in this either way, but I know it's a decision maker for some to have that capability so I'm glad it's included (if this is real).
Its a great option for all those people holding on to old app data!
Delicious! Go ahead Palm, you made my day.
Here is what that icon goes to,
http://www.flightview.com/
Check flight status.
What's that icon between Facebook and Pandora?
That's not Facebook - it's Fandango: http://www.fandango.com/
But I don't know.
You mean in between Fandango and Pandora? I was wondering the same thing. Anyone know?
Looks like something called FlightView
If this is true, Palm just killed the iPhone. ChatterEmail alone is worth whatever price this thing will cost. This is a homerun Palm... if true!!! NOW, RELEASE IT!!!!!!!!!!
@cube That's not a Facebook icon. That's Fandango. http://www.fandango.com/
Nice April Fools bit. Of course many will be mad because they really want this.
See this is why April 1st sucks. I don't know what parts of all this to believe.
Personally I think it would be nice to have the backwards compatibility though.
@Predator-1 Well... if it's an emulation layer, I wonder if a background app like ChatterEmail would really work the way one might expect. Not to mention that the Pre should be able to do excellent email, etc with it's own built-in stuff. I can imagine several of my old POS apps being useful, but I think some functionality (like background) might be limited in emulation.
We shall see I suppose.
I've been using the Centro finger-only for almost 1.5 years. very doable on nearly all palm apps, even Scrabble!
Pretty interesting. Wonder if stuff like CallRec will work. Are we assuming too much from what "classic" might mean though?
Huge, Huge, HUGE - Very Huge!!
If what Dieter is saying is true this is bloody huge
I knew this was supposed to be a new Palm but I am pretty surprised they were able to pull this off
I wouldn't have gone Pre if it didn't (or until it would) support the palm apps I use every day. If this is indeed true, then I'm in :)
Excited, very excited! Tell me it is true! The only Pre deal killer for me was a step backward from the Palm OS apps which would no longer work unless separately programmed and at an additional cost. And who knows when. This is SUPER HUGE for me! Even if they aren't fully functional...just so they can work!
Did you guys notice the video icon? It's right between the camera and classic icon.
Thats only for video playback, not video camera app if that's what you were thinking.
It's been a while since I watched demos of the Pre, I forgot what the video playback icon looked like.
That's to watch videos on the device, not to record video. Palm's been showing off video playing on the Pre since they unveiled it at CES 2009.
So? We already knew it could play video's ;-)
Never mind, I just realized that icon is for playing videos.
So I should be able to use all my registered apps that are registered to a specific HotSync ID, right? I assume that you will need to define the HotSync ID within the app prefs.
I'll take an old palm app over an ifart app.
@ (not)Informed - That's to watch videos on the device, not to record video. Palm's been showing off video playing on the Pre since they unveiled it at CES 2009.
You don't have to be an ass!
I don't know. It is April 1 and someone is pulling someone's leg. Video is pretty quick to upload and I don't see it yet.
I dont think Dieter would do that to us!
agreed. He said there would be a video to follow. Where's the video? I dunno maybe he just got caught up in the hustle and bustle of things.
Oh, man, it looks like they *totally* ripped off TealOS, doesn't it?
Not an April fools. we wouldn't pull that today.
*note* this article has gotten the most comments I've seen in a long time
Talk about blood in the water.
It proboply will be limited without access to the system core meaning no internet applications, and other hardware-like api calls.
If this isn't an April Fools' joke, it's just sad. Palm is dead! Long live Apple!
I wish they just release this phone, and stop BS ing I been waiting for the release of this phone since last year.
It was only announced in January....
Chinese calendar. ;)
Woooo!
Palm appps!!!!
And hopefully native apps to come!!! I dont't think the emulator is a widget!
=)
I'm thinking the video update will not show the emulator in use. Maybe Dieter just asked them about it and they say "no comment".
And I just got the Centro because I need my PalmOS apps and am on Verizon. :( This is like a death row pardon, two minutes too late.
what no comments from o&a fans???????
That would be cool, I wonder how system tools would work, buttler comes to mind. Support like this would be huge though, and take away some pain for palm folks who switched to iphone and are thinking about switching back (not as much as having expandable memory :( though).
I must say that the palm pre has lotsa promise - many promises being met by apple OSX3
Why assume "Classic" refers to classic Palm apps? Perhaps it will run the generic Java apps which work on dumbphones.
Hmm
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The webos is such a good OS to use for the palm. You cannot get any better then this operating system.
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