Nintendo DS to Include the Palm OS?

[$aba]

http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=2414

[Vlosk]

oh your God! heheheheh does this mean we have to buy new DS's? wtf byatches!!! (hate saying byatches but i gotta get my point across... :roll: ) anyways will this be a new cartridge or a new DS.. if it is I"m MAKING Nintendo give me a new one!! :O

[$aba]

nope i am guestin it a cartridge

[Baronen]

Can't hurt, can it? Good news. As for now, I'll continue using my cell phone for storing notes and appointments. If this is executed right (and the right price, most importantly), I'll probably end up using it a lot.

[x999x]

This IS good news, but coming from someone who's used PDAs for almost 10 years now, Palm OS is really really limited.

I can liken Palm OS to Mac OS, in that they both have padded walls for the user to bump in to, it's very friendly, and has that cutesy look to it similar to mac.

Nintendo have made a good choice for an OS if they did infact license it from Palm, however it pales in comparison to what the PocketPC (Windows CE) OS can do. In fact, the PocketPC's computing power has pushed it to the forefront of PDAs, overtaking palms market almost entirely.

Palm on the other hand merged with Handspring to stay alive, then later broke off into two companies, Palm One and Palm Source. One makes pda hardware like the Treo pda/phones, and the other continues to streamline it's old and tired OS, Palm OS.

Palm OS will now doubt get the job done when it comes to personal information management, PIM, but many of the other cool whizzbang features like Web Browsing, Instant Messaging, Multimedia Playback all take a back seat, because Palm was never designed to do that, and as a result, you're left with mediocre playback. The point is, it manages information, it's not a multimedia tool like pocketPC's are, palm can do media playback, but compared to a pocketPC, you're better off using the MovieAdvance for this purpose.

Possible problems: Syncing

There's bound to be some issues here, primarily how Ninty plan on syncing all your information. Syncing is essentially matching the current data on your workstation/personal computer to your PDA. This keeps all your email addresses, contacts, even emails up to date, so that you can access that inormation anywhere. You can also write emails on the PDA, and the next time you sync, your PC will send it out. Here inlies the problem, to sync data like this, you need to use Palm's "Palm Desktop" software which is what you use to store all this information. This is great for people just starting, but for people like me who have thousands of contacts in Microsoft Outlook, as well as emails and such, there's no way for the Palm based PDA to access that information, I'm stuck having to switch all my data over to Palm's software. There are, however, conduit applications that act as a gateway between your pda and the programs you prefer to use, like Outlook. This solves my problem, but costs an extra 30 bux because it's a program not made by palm. This same problem carries over to the mac, but at least Ninty had the foresight to use Palm OS rather than PocketPC OS, because Palm is native to both Mac and PC for syncing purposes.

I'll prolly get this addon if it is ever released, and not a rumor. It won't replace my PocketPC which smokes anything the DS can do outside of gaming, but I think it will be somethign cool to play around with, and maybe even a substitute for my PocketPC when I don't feel like carrying both on me.

[chuddy_2001uk]

I didn't buy a DS to organise my life, i used it to play games.

[Sparks]

i use my brain to organise my life, or i just go with the flow.

[Baronen]

x999x: Then you came along and had to be all realistic and ****! :(

Moshy: On the top of your head: Your father's birthday? Your mother's? Your plans for the next weekend? Your best friend's birthday?

Using that batch of information, I should be able to track you down and rape you. Lube up, boy.

[Luineancaion]

I would have been more happy with Nintendo if they had ported GNU/Linux over to the DS, that would have been much more useful and they wouldn't of had to pay licensing costs.

x999x.... outlook? I'm shocked and saddened. :(

If nintendo had ported over GNU/Linux and brought out a proper keyboard attachment that would have been awesome, they'd just need vim & gcc and I'd be happy as, portable developement :D

Anyway, I've never used PalmOS so it could be interesting to see what can be done with it, I just hope that it's not a heavily locked out OS that stops you having power over your own device.

[17R3W]

first.
Mar 04, Feb 8, work work and work, and let's go w/ Dec 7th, (my gf's)

this will sound very bias,
but I'd rather Nintendo invested in a Linux for DS, being as the DS is so different from your palm (windows CE would never work, cause ya need 32MB of RAM) , then included a FireFox baised around the DS, some email client as well as a JVM that run's on the DS, w/ and w/o Linus.