Chicago (IL) - There never will be another smartphone to utilize the Palm OS. The company announced today it will begin a transition to webOS while also supporting Microsoft Windows products. The current Centro smartphone will be the last phone to utilize the Palm OS.
Palm is currently working to convince about 30,000 Palm OS software developers to move their applications to the new operating system. Even so, at this point the company has divulged very little information about webOS, which reportedly supports many different web standards.
Palm had a private pre-release of their webOS Mojo application framework and software development kit in January. Early development partners claim webOS supports HTML5, which enables a local data store -- so both applications and data can be accessed offline. The framework is also Linux based, according to one developer.
The Mojo Software Development Kit, due out later in 2009, will deliver sample code, documentation and development tools which includes an Eclipse-based IDE. Developers will have the option of making a decision as to what tools they wish to use when building webOS programs. Also, webOS is not open-source and Palm doesn't plan on licensing it at this point.
When Pre launches, it will be the first in a series of webOS based products for which Palm appears to have no exact plan in place. The market will not be flooded with products of this type, and the Palm Pre will more than likely sit for a while as the market adjusts.
A glimpse of the webOS operating system. It appears notably iPhone-esque, yet with definite visible traits of Palm's former OS.
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