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June 21, 2008

Yesterday, Access has released an update to its Palm OS Garnet VM for Nokia Internet Tablets. Some of the new features in the Garnet VM Beta 2 include full screen support and three hot-swappable display modes.

Also featured are "portraits in a window" and portrait landscape. The new Linux mobile phone also features improved performance and various compatibility and application-specific updates.

Notable new apps that are now listed as compatible include: Google Maps, SnapperMail, Pocket Tunes, Kinoma Player 4 EX and CorePlayer.

The Garnet VM is a Linux virtual machine that essentially acts as an emulator allowing you to run Palm OS applications on a Nokia N-770, N-800 and N-810 Internet Tablet. it supports over 30,000 native software applications written for the Palm OS, including some of the most popular mobile applications on the market, such as Google Maps, SnapperMail, Date-Bk5 and a few games such as Bejeweled, PacMan and Sudoku.

The Garnet VM for Nokia Internet Tablets also includes Graffiti 1 character recognition, TCP/IP Networking support, the ability to Network Hotsync and language support for English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

The Garnet VM runs compatible Palm OS applications with a 320 x 480 screen resolution. There are settings to change the default storage size, display configuration and storage heap. Basic version of the Address Book, Calculator, Date Book and Memo Pad are included.

Overall, users are able to install any Palm OS application and can configure compatibilty per application (memory, display and device model).

Versions of the Garnet VM are also available for Internet Tablet OS Software versions 2006, 2007 and 2008.

The Nokia N-770, N-800 and N-810 Internet Tablets are part of the Nokia N-Series range of high performance multimedia computers. The tablets run a customized version of Debian Linux and include built in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless connections and a large high resolution display at 800 x 480 pixels.

Source: Wireless News.org

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