PDA Toolbox Professional Site Closure

Now that Palm's webOS is to become the next platform for Palm, PDA Toolbox for the Palm OS is heading into retirement.   I have always maintained that we would stay open until the 'Last Palm OS device was sold' and I hope that I've stayed true to that statement.  It is obvious that the direction Palm is headed is for a Palm OS-less environment.

So  PDAToobox.org and it's forums and software links are going to remain open until September 30th, 2009 -- the end of my hosting contract.  However, the forums and sales will be closed to new users. At this time, I am not sure of the status of PDAToolbox.com.

It has been a fun and interesting run.  I think many of us learned a lot of new things and met a lot of interesting people.  I know that careers were started and lives changed by folks stepping into the world of PDA Toolbox!  I think it has been real nice being part of that. 

Both Paul Anderson and I thank everyone who has contributed to PDA Toolbox and the PDA Toolbox community.

-Rick Sands

:) 

Year of the Palm Pre?

I have to admit I have been pleasantly surprised at the CES announcement of the Palm Pre.  Of course, everyone has heard plenty about it - and if you haven't, then you scoot on over to Engadget and read Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Palm Pre.  I honestly didn't think Palm was going to make much of a splash.  Now all they have to do is actually pull it off with a flawless implementation and release.  For the last few years, Palm has had problems with implementation so we'll see.  I am crossing my fingers for them.

The development aspects of the Palm Pre are still be worked out.  Mostly it has been mentioned that Palm will only support applications created with the WebOS "Mojo" library - apparently an Ajax library similar to Apple's but with more low-level API's available.  There's a somewhat informative article at Ars called The pre's got Mojo: a developer speaks about Palm's new SDK.  Hopefully this is just a phase 1, similar to Apple's, and that a native application SDK will eventually be available.

So, who knows?  Maybe this will be the year of the Palm Pre. Let's keep our fingers crossed and root for Palm to succeed.  There is a lot of inertia to overcome (Apple, Sprint Only, Palm's recent reputation, etc.) but it can only be a good thing to increase the competition in this high-end mobile web space.

:)