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• And the distro / UI they are working on does ... ?
  Is Qtopia lousy? Don't know. If I extrapolate Qt / KDE then my
  logic says it doesn't, but just a guess.
  
  As for third party support. Anything they choose other than
  Symbian, Windows Mobile or status quo will be starting at
  square zero for 3rd party applications.
  
  Get it out soon. If it had the basic Palm Treo functionality it
  would sell okay.
  
  Waiting seems to be working against them. Seems they are
  letting perfect be the enemy of good. By the time they release it
  will not matter about backward compatibility because few of us
  will care.
  
  Perhaps the Motorola phone that runs linux will be a nice
  replacement for my Palm Treo, or perhaps ...

  July 31, 2006

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• So slow - other options exist!
  What could possibly take them so long?
  
  It was over a year ago that CMS (China Mobile Soft) was
  purchased. Right?
  
  OR
  
  Could they be trying to maintain the dual layer (motorola chip /
  native processor) relationship?
  
  OR
  
  Is backward compatibility the issue? (you think that looking at
  Microsoft transitions and Apple's they would not choose the
  Microsoft plan)
  
  OR
  
  Perhaps they are trying to help Microsoft justify the Vista
  debacle!
  
  Why don't they just choose Qtopia and get on with it?

  July 31, 2006

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