Comments on: Why the Nokia 770 is not intended as a PDA http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/07/12/why-the-nokia-770-is-not-intended-as-a-pda/ Palm OS / web OS news and opinion source Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mohit http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/07/12/why-the-nokia-770-is-not-intended-as-a-pda/comment-page-1/#comment-16136 mohit Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:36:21 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/07/12/why-the-nokia-770-is-not-intended-as-a-pda/#comment-16136 what are windows based mobiles. are they good enough than a normal mobile. what are windows based mobiles. are they good enough than a normal mobile.

]]> By: Tam Hanna http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/07/12/why-the-nokia-770-is-not-intended-as-a-pda/comment-page-1/#comment-6840 Tam Hanna Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:23:49 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/07/12/why-the-nokia-770-is-not-intended-as-a-pda/#comment-6840 Hi Benjamin, oops. Thanks for clearing this up.. Nevertheless, existing users will probably find this annoying. Is porting going to be very difficult? Best regards Tam Hanna Hi Benjamin,
oops. Thanks for clearing this up..
Nevertheless, existing users will probably find this annoying. Is porting going to be very difficult?

Best regards
Tam Hanna

]]> By: Benjamin Combee http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/07/12/why-the-nokia-770-is-not-intended-as-a-pda/comment-page-1/#comment-6760 Benjamin Combee Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:51:56 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/07/12/why-the-nokia-770-is-not-intended-as-a-pda/#comment-6760 I disagree... the reason why the new OS release isn't binary compatible with the new one is because of a fundamental shift happening in the ARM tools space. OS2005 was built with the older GCC ABI, while the new OS2006 is built using ARM's EABI. This has only started working on Linux in the last year, but the shift was needed to provide a stable platform for future development. Given that there were not-too-many apps for OS2005, I think it was a good choice for Nokia to get the change done as soon as possible instead of spending lots of engineering effort to keep compatibility -- Linux can support both ABIs, but at the cost of lots of flash and RAM memory consumption. I disagree… the reason why the new OS release isn’t binary compatible with the new one is because of a fundamental shift happening in the ARM tools space. OS2005 was built with the older GCC ABI, while the new OS2006 is built using ARM’s EABI. This has only started working on Linux in the last year, but the shift was needed to provide a stable platform for future development. Given that there were not-too-many apps for OS2005, I think it was a good choice for Nokia to get the change done as soon as possible instead of spending lots of engineering effort to keep compatibility — Linux can support both ABIs, but at the cost of lots of flash and RAM memory consumption.

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