PALM OS™
Palm OS™ (also known as Garnet OS™) is an embedded operating system
initially developed by U.S. Robotics' owned Palm Computing, Inc. for
personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS™ is designed for ease of
use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface.
It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management.
It has been implemented on a wide array of mobile devices, including smartphones,
handheld gaming consoles, barcode readers and GPS devices.
© 2007 Palm THC, LLC
Key features of the current Palm OS™:
Simple environment to allow launching of full screen
applications with a basic, common GUI set
Colour screens with resolutions up to 480x320
Handwriting recognition input system, "Graffiti 2™"
Serial port/USB, Infrared, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections
accessible by third-party applications.
"Palm OS is a registered trademark of Palm Trademark Holding Company, LLC."
Palm is developing a Linux-based successor to Palm OS Garnet. This version is likely to be called Palm OS and is expected to be available in Q1 2009
Palm OS was originally developed in 1996 by Jeff Hawkins with
his U.S. Robotics Corp. owned Palm Computing, Inc.
U.S. Robotics
was later bought by 3Com, which made the Palm subsidiary an independent
publicly traded company on March 2, 2000.
