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The Pre has done well enough in the marketplace for Palm to decide to steer away from competing handset operating systems entirely. They announced recently that all new handsets will be WebOS devices, taking Windows Mobile's perceived dominance in the enterprise and throwing it out the window entirely.

For Palm, WebOS has done its job -- it has given them a new beginning, albeit a very slow one since their App Catalog only got payment support this week. Read more »

Palm has finally admitted that they are working on a new version of the PalmOS based on linux. The revelation was made at today's Palm Investor Day event. This is not the Access Linux Platform (ALP) that is being worked on and is now giving out development kits to handset makers. Other announcements that fit with recent moves by the company were also made and are worth noting.

Palm OS 5 devices will still be released this year, but devices based on the Linux kernel should (my emphasis) be released by the end of 2007. Read more »