Kinoma gives up on Palm OS

Everyone who has had a Palm OS device should know Kinoma – the boys offered a pretty flexible media player for the Palm OS which supported some formats nobody else had.

Unfortunately, the time of Kinoma for Palm OS seems to have come to an end. A post on the official Kinoma web site reads as following:

Since the launch of the original Kinoma Player in 2002, Kinoma has led the way in mobile media technology. The platform first established in Kinoma Player lives on not only in Kinoma’s flagship product — Kinoma Play — but also in products from companies including Sony and Sling Media.

As Palm OS fades into the sunset, we’ve had a lot of folks ask what our plans are. Today we’re announcing that we’ll be ending sales and support for Palm OS products in order to focus completely on current phone OSs.

If you’re a Palm OS user, here’s what you need to know: Kinoma will be ending sales of Kinoma Player 4 EX on 8/1/2010. We’ll continue to offer support, including any necessary security and critical fixes, until 10/1/2010. Effective 10/1/2010, Kinoma will offer only community-based support Kinoma Player 4 EX via our forum at forum.kinoma.com.

We’re also ending sales and support for Kinoma Producer for Windows and Mac OS on the same schedule.

We’d like to thank everyone who’s supported these products, and helped pioneer the now-common sight of people enjoying music, movies, podcasts and audiobooks on phones. You were ahead of your time, and when you upgrade your phone we hope you’ll choose Kinoma Play.

Given that the PDA32 is just ramping up, I can envision quite a few extra sales in the next few weeks. Nevertheless, it is sad to see another Palm OS developer go…

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2. Kinoma Player 4EX – wireless capabilities
3. Media Players for the Palm, Hands on Review!
4. Palm Centro Simulator – version numbers
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