http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/ Engadget Mobile Comments for New ACCESS Linux Platform screenshots emerge http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/Aug 13th 2007 5:54PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/
mkay...what is hte point of this? How about something......NEW?]]>Aug 13th 2007 7:25PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/
Does this not look a little ....familiar. Try looking at the main menu of the iPhone and the main menu pictured here. I am not saying anyone is copying any one, but it looks awfully...."inspired."

But hey, a company like Palm needs all the inspiration it could possibly get. Samsung was inspired by Motorola's RAZR, causing almost all of their mobiles to become emaciated--in form, that is--and look where it landed them: in the number two spot, one below Nokia, but, more importantly, one above Motorola, the source of inspiration.

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Be that as it may, I hope this gets the company back on its feet. Now, if only they could get someone to design the phone as well as the platform...]]>Aug 13th 2007 7:25PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/
You Apple FanBoy!!! Just kidding man, I can see what you're talking about. BUT, being a Palm 755p user, it looks to me like a very very updated (and very very much needed) version of the current Garnet OS interface. I have corresponding applications icons for all the application icons in the first pic. I could tell you what button to push or icon to click to get to all of the other screens, this could almost be a skin to Garnet. But of course, I can only really hope this new Linux version doesn't suck as much as Garnet. And I can only really really hope that they offer a ROM upgrade for my 755p...uh, not holding my breath on this one...]]>Aug 13th 2007 11:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/08/13/new-access-linux-platform-screenshots-emerge/
Oh, you got me, I *am* an Apple Fanboy, I thought that disclaimer would hide my rather unnatural attraction to the Big Apple (you know, Jobs' kind): I was wrong.

*shot for melodrama*

Anyway, yeah, from what I've heard, Palm isn't too good on these software updates, causing users' phones to malfunction (something with messaging, I believe).

That aside, platform is only as good as the phone's design, itself. A phone can have all the features in the world but if it's butt ugly, it ain't going no where. And with Palm's design team, that's a distinct possibility. I mean, we're happy that Palm *finally* removed the external antenna; what the hell is this? At this rate, we're gonna have to wait another three years (if the company is still alive, of course) to get some "smexii," thin Treos.]]>Aug 13th 2007 11:39PM