Come on Palm ...give us a taster or a tidbit

What is going on with the new palm o/s? We don't exactly get flooded with updates or tidbits to whet the appetite from Palm and it would be nice to know that we're not hanging on for nothing. There seems to be nothing coming out of Palm HQ as regards any development news or when a device is likely to debut, we don't expect an hour by hour update but something, crikey anything, would be nice.

Let's face it, Palm is not exactly in a position of strength here to the point where it can afford to keep the ever shrinking mass of palm devotees in the dark for much longer. I'm not expecting them to come and out and say "the Palm Beano with new o/s, wifi and super dooper win mob and iphone bashing specs will be launched at precisely 10.40am on March 3rd 2009" but I would like to see wee snippets of how the o/s is progressing via screenshots or carefully selected leaks.

Palm will be losing another batch of devotees when the 3g and 3rd party totin' iPhone comes to town in the next few months, not to mention the Blacberry Bold or HTC Diamond, and you would have thought they'd have seen this as an opportunity, to say nothing of a necessity, to get some positive PR out there to counteract the iPhone and their glossy ilk. I can only see the resounding silence with regard to o/s news, the longer zip all emanates from HQ, as being bad news on some front, whether that is along the lines of them abandoning the new interface completely and concentrating solely on the win mob market I don't know but....I've no real idea obviously, I'm just starting to feel a little uneasy/nervous about it now, less confident than I was 6 months ago about ever seeing a new o/s.

Perhaps because of the huge sales of the Centro Palm are thinking that the panic is over and that they now have this huge new customer base to tap into at a later date, assuming of course that these Centro users would jump ship to a new updated palm o/s. They may or they may not but it would be dangerous to assume they will all automatically purchase a Nova toting superior specced palm smartphone. Part of the big attraction of the Centro to them in the first place was it's relative simplicity of use and low low price point. The former would be a likely feature on Nova but numero two certainly won't be.

Is anybody else thinking that all this silence is not necessarily golden?

Comments

[Adrian]

Depressing isn't it. I'm coaxing along a T3 with a crap screen hoping that before it dies completely there will be a great new Palm for me to replace it with. Not feeling hopeful.