Details of Palm OS 6
# Multitasking, multithreading;
# Memory protection;
# Support for more memory and larger screens;
# Industry standards-based security;
# Extensible communication and multimedia frameworks capable of handling multiple connections simultaneously;
New Pluggable Communications Design — The modular, flexible, industry-standard STREAMS-based framework is designed to offer a simple way for licensees and software developers to add communications support for a wide variety of networking and communications protocols. Palm OS Cobalt is designed to supports multiple simultaneous communication sessions on various wireless networks, such as downloading WiFi delivered data while receiving a phone call.
Extensible Multimedia Framework — Palm OS Cobalt is designed to provide a rich graphics and multimedia architecture. Graphics support includes paths, rotation, gradient fills, anti-aliasing, outline fonts and transparency. The new graphics system is designed to support screen sizes up to 32,000 by 32,000 pixels! Multimedia support includes playback of industry-standard audio and video including ADPCM/PCM, MP3, MPEG1 and MPEG4 designed to enable licensees and software developers to more easily build media-based applications. This extensible multimedia framework is designed to enable licensees and software developers to easily add additional audio and video standards.
Improved PIM Applications & Databases Palm OS Address Book and Date Book are redesigned to support up to 255 fields, providing better interoperability with Microsoft Outlook. Each standard PIM application is designed to automatically adjust layout size to fit particular actions. For example, a small screen for the Dynamic Input Area when editing a document, and a larger screen when reading an eBook. Palm OS licensees and software developers can also extend and customize underlying schema databases easily to create new fields.
Better compatibility with Microsoft Outlook and PC files PalmSource has also added additional fields to Palm OS DateBook and Address Book, designed to correspond more closely to the information stored on Microsoft Outlook. In addition, Palm OS Cobalt is designed to allow users to transfer PC files directly to Palm Powered devices by dragging them onto an icon on the PC desktop, making it even easier for reading and editing.
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slashdot的讨论超强，对于32Kx32K的分辨率用处，
Isn’t 32k x 32k overkill? (Score:2, Flamebait)
by EricWright (16803) on Wednesday February 11, @05:06PM (#8253636)
What in the world do you need that kind of resolution for a Palm based system? Are they looking at expanding into other types of systems?
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Re:Isn’t 32k x 32k overkill? (Score:5, Funny)
by El Pollo Loco (562236) on Wednesday February 11, @05:12PM (#8253699)
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slashdot的讨论
我越来越觉得slashdot的人跟paowang差不多