PalmSource's Future

Link: Treonauts | Dedicated to your Treo 650 & 600. The Perfect All-In-One Communications, Information & Entertainment Tool.: Paradigm Shift: PalmSource's Future.

PalmSource last Wednesday announced the acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS) a leading mobile phone software company operating in the single largest and fastest growing mobile phone market in the world (China has over 320 million mobile phone users) and which has been developing a version of Linux optimized for mobile devices. Where PalmSource has taken a strong lead in the development of a robust OS for current and next generation high-end smartphones such as our Treo, CMS has for its part been developing a version of the Linux operating system for low to mid-end mobile devices. The rationale for PalmSource's acquisition is to combine the companies' development efforts so as to provide existing and prospective licensees an end-to-end portfolio of mobile phone software capable of powering the entire spectrum of mobile phones - from 'basic' phones (voice calling only) to 'feature' phones (camera, video, MP3, movies, etc.) to 'smart' phones (all-in-one communications, information and entertainment).