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Google and Palm: the ideal scenario

Posted by olivier in Culture on 2010-03-22

It was suggested by Phil kearny (ex Apple employee) that Google should buy Palm…

Let’s dream a little bit:

  1. Google buys Palm
  2. A GWT wrapper is developper for Mojo (Palm’s Javascript SDK). GWT becomes the official SDK for webOS
  3. dalvik is ported to webOS. All the apps from the Android marketplace are now available for webOS devices
  4. Android and webOS merge. Android 3.0 runs both dalvik apps and Mojo/JavaScript/GWT apps
  5. Google releases the most amazing smartphone ever, the Nexus Ultimate. The iPhone is now a thing of the past.
  6. Apple open sources the iPhone SDK, allows Flash on their mobile devices, opens up the AppStore for all apps, and goes back to what they do best: desktop and laptop computers, with a reliable UNIX-based OS.

PS: after I wrote this post, I found that some rumors were spreading about Palm moving to Android… I promise I’m not the one who wrote the fake “anonymously sourced, unconfirmed memo” ;)

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GWT sighting in Palm’s webOS Mojo SDK

Posted by olivier in GWT on 2010-01-05

While exploring the code samples that come with Palm’s SDK for webOS (named Mojo), I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the samples (MojoMsgSample) uses GWT and the Google App Engine for the “cloud” part of the sample! It’s a basic publish/subscribe app, but still it’s nice to find oneself in known territory…

BTW, has anyone attempted to wrap the Mojo SDK in GWT? I’d be thrilled to be able to write webOS apps in GWT :)

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This might be my next phone

Posted by olivier in Uncategorized on 2009-12-14

android_logoI’ve been pondering a replacement for my (still reliable but aging) Treo 680. Since I have decided not to get an iPhone as long as the App Store has such insane policies, I’ve narrowed my search down to:

The Pre has a groundbreaking OS called webOS which is almost entirely built on JavaScript and web technologies. It’s the phone that was designed for “always on” operation; it integrates seamlessly with online services such as mail and calendar from several providers (including Google of course). On the down side, it’s only available in a handful of countries in Europe, Luxembourg NOT being one of them. I called all three mobile network operators and none of them had even heard the name “Palm Pre”, so I don’t suppose I should wait for it to arrive here anytime soon. I could get a German one, but apparently you need to activate it on a German network, plus it comes with a QWERTZ keyboard.

Android phones are not that much easier to get, but they exist. There was an offer for an HTC Hero not long ago, but most reviewers found the hardware a bit lagging, so I decided to wait.

But now it seems that Google might be selling soon its own Android 2.1 device, unlocked GSM, with no carrier messing with the software… How great is that ? My own Christmas might be a little late this year :)

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