Palm working on a line of Linux-powered, non-Treo feature phones?

Ever since we got our hands on a Treo 700w, the
number one question we’ve been asked (besides, “Can you get me one?”) has been, “Will there be a Palm version?” To be
perfectly honest, we don’t have any definitive info either way, but LinuxDevices claims that Palm is going to start
shipping a line of “Linux-powered mobile phones” later this year. Note that they don’t say “Linux-powered Treo” —
LinuxDevices.com seems to think that Palm is going to introduce a line of Linux-powered “feature phones”. Curiouser
still, these new phones will reportedly run on Wind River Linux rather than the new Linux-based version of the Palm OS
that PalmSource is working on (probably because the new Palm OS won’t be ready until next year at the earliest). Man,
this all sounds a little too weird to be true, but apparently Wind River’s VP of Marketing told LinuxDevices that they
do have at least one customer who expects to ship a phone in the US running Wind River Linux before Christmas. So if
this is for real, would a Palm Linux phone be able to run Palm apps?



[Thanks, Sammy at Palm Addict]


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