The end of the line is almost here for the Sony CLIÉ. Following the announcement this summer that Sony was exiting the US PDA market, I just received this message from the CLIÉ Handheld Developer Support website: Sony Electronics Inc. hereby announces pursuant to the CLIE(R) Handheld Development Membership Agreement that the CLIE Handheld Developer Website and all related services shall terminate effective December 31, 2004. After this date, the CLIE Handheld Developer Website, Developer Tools, and related Services will no longer be available for use/download, and Sony shall provide no further support. Sony would like to thank to great…
While at Gnomedex this past weekend, there were numerous mentions of “PodCasting”. I had heard of this briefly in the last couple of weeks, but had not looked into it yet. There seems to be a lot of buzz around this simple but interesting concept. Basically, it’s an application of audio enclosures within an RSS feed. A special aggregator automatically downloads the audio files (perhaps overnight) and pushes them to the MP3 device. A lot of people are now publishing internet talk shows and other content in this way and it seems to be gaining a ton of momentum. I’ve…
Today palmOne announced the Tungsten T5 which is the latest in the handheld (i.e. non-Treo) family or PDAs. It's kind of a sad day — the first product release since I left. This should be a nice product with full 320×480 display (no slider like the T3) and a total of 256MB of storage — 160 MB flash drive and about 55MB of usable RAM. The flash drive is being touted as a way to store and carry your files with you, kind of like a USB keychain drive. Compared to comparable PDA devices, that's a good chunk of on-device…
As the interest in moblogging has continued to grow, it’s been encouraging to see several dedicated blogging clients appear for the Palm OS platform. Inspired in part by Palm Weblogging on Palmsource.com, I thought a quick round-up of the available clients would be helpful. 2005-06-09: Mike Rowehl just released Vagablog as open-source. 2004-11-25: Tim Norman of NormSoft just wrote to let me know that HBlogger was in the process of moving from Hexlet to NormSoft. (Tim was referring to my previous comments about the confusion of where to buy HBlogger.) Thanks for the feedback Tim! I’ve updated those details on…
When I first saw palmOne amputates handheld wireless services for its Treo 600 phones, I was fairly confused. Why “amputate” handheld wireless services for the hottest-selling Palm product? Upon further inspection, it turns out that this is just the old news that the Palm.net service for Palm VII and i705 devices is ending. Maybe they should have said “…amputates wiress services and moves users to Treo 600 phones…”, but hey, I'm not a PR guy. At least make it not be so misleading.