Palm and Palm OS devices are the most widely used pen-based kind of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The original series of Palm Pilots (models 1000, 5000, Personal, and Professional) were made by USRobotics, which was bought by 3Com. Since then, the unit has spun off and is now Palm Computing, Inc. Palm has about a dozen different models on the market.
Palm OS, the operating system running on Palms, has been licensed by other manufacturers, and some OEMs sell branded versions of Palms. Thus, Palms are compatible with Handspring's Visor, Kyocera's pdQ cellphone, the Symbol Technologies SPT series, and TRG Products. Other licensees include Sony and Nokia. The IBM WorkPad and the ePocrates are branded Palm models.
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The operating system of the Palm connected organizers, the Palm OS, has been licensed by a number of manufactures for use in other devices, including organizers and cellphones.
Websites that are straight reviews should be in the reviews category instead.
Programming information for the Palm Computing Platform.
The Palm computing platform originated with the PalmPilot, from US Robotics, and now comprises one major operating system - Palm OS - and several hardware devices from Palm Computing and other Palm OS licensees.
This category groups sites dealing with programming for any device that can run Palm OS.
Palm OS software runs on Palms and Palm Piltos, but also on Handspring Visors and other Palm OS licensees.
This category only includes Palm Software based alternative input. Hardware input devices (such as physical keyboards, bar code readers, etc.) should go in the hardware category.
Using a Palm or Visor with a Unix or Linux desktop poses special difficulties, since these platforms are not supported by Palm, Handspring, and most third-party hard- and software vendors. This category lists sites which provide information or software for making the Palm work with Unix.
Palm User Groups, PUGs, are organizations that promote the use Palm devices. They used to be known as Palm Pilots. They all provide information, tips, reviews and help for their members about the Palm community. Most of them organize regular meetings for their members.