Samsung I500 (SPH-i500) phone OS upgrade -- anyone ever attempt this?

Has anyone ever tried to upgrade the PalmOS 4.1 on this phone to later
version?

If you have any success or failure stories about this subject then
please let me know.

Thank you.
-sb

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I was told it couldn't handle 5.



"sab" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Has anyone ever tried to upgrade the PalmOS 4.1 on this phone to later
> version?
>
> If you have any success or failure stories about this subject then
> please let me know.
>
> Thank you.
> -sb
>

In article <ErEYe.26595$8q.14071@lakeread01>, "John Doe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I was told it couldn't handle 5.

>"sab" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Has anyone ever tried to upgrade the PalmOS 4.1 on this phone to later
>> version?

PalmOS 5.x cannot run on the older Dragonball CPUs such as the i500 has.
I don't know of a version of PalmOS appreciably newer than what the i500
already runs that actually could run on the i500...

ANyone have any word on when the next Palm Smartphone will be coming from
Samsung? I just hate the Treo 650. Sprint's site has stopped selling the
i500.

"Daniel Tso" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <ErEYe.26595$8q.14071@lakeread01>, "John Doe"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >I was told it couldn't handle 5.
>
> >"sab" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> Has anyone ever tried to upgrade the PalmOS 4.1 on this phone to later
> >> version?
>
> PalmOS 5.x cannot run on the older Dragonball CPUs such as the i500 has.
> I don't know of a version of PalmOS appreciably newer than what the i500
> already runs that actually could run on the i500...

In article <[email protected]>, "Scooterflex" <[email protected]> wrote:
>ANyone have any word on when the next Palm Smartphone will be coming from
>Samsung? I just hate the Treo 650. Sprint's site has stopped selling the
>i500.

Well the rumor is that Samsung has disbanded its Palm phone development team.
And of course PalmSource (PalmOS) has been bought up by Access.
And there is the Treo 700 running WM2005.

And LG did sign on to PalmOS...

So the best hope now is that Access won't destroy or inhibit PalmOS and
that LG sees fit to develop a good PalmOS phone, AND (biggest and...)
that the carriers will actually decide to adopt it (seeing as Sprint was
the one that killed the i550 (and ultimate Samsung's PalmOS line), not
Samsung itself..., just as VZW killed the i640/i645).

Thanks for the info. I guess I'll have to stick with my i500 as long as I
can.

"Daniel Tso" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:NaT%[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
"Scooterflex" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >ANyone have any word on when the next Palm Smartphone will be coming from
> >Samsung? I just hate the Treo 650. Sprint's site has stopped selling the
> >i500.
>
> Well the rumor is that Samsung has disbanded its Palm phone development
team.
> And of course PalmSource (PalmOS) has been bought up by Access.
> And there is the Treo 700 running WM2005.
>
> And LG did sign on to PalmOS...
>
> So the best hope now is that Access won't destroy or inhibit PalmOS and
> that LG sees fit to develop a good PalmOS phone, AND (biggest and...)
> that the carriers will actually decide to adopt it (seeing as Sprint was
> the one that killed the i550 (and ultimate Samsung's PalmOS line), not
> Samsung itself..., just as VZW killed the i640/i645).

Samsung A900 Coming to Sprint

Today, 3:39 PM source: FCC

The FCC today approved the Samsung A900, an ultra-thin clamshell CDMA phone
for the U.S. based on the Korean SCH-V740. As rumored, FCC documents confirm
that the RAZR-like phone is intended for Sprint. FCC documents also confirm
that the phone will be dual-band digital-only, have an internal antenna,
Bluetooth, a swivel camera, a color external display with media keys, and
EV-DO high-speed data. The Korean version is only 14.5 mm thick and has a
music player, a QVGA display, and a 1.3 megapixel camera.

"Scooterflex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks for the info. I guess I'll have to stick with my i500 as long as I
> can.
>
> "Daniel Tso" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:NaT%[email protected]...
>> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Scooterflex" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >ANyone have any word on when the next Palm Smartphone will be coming
>> >from
>> >Samsung? I just hate the Treo 650. Sprint's site has stopped selling the
>> >i500.
>>
>> Well the rumor is that Samsung has disbanded its Palm phone development
> team.
>> And of course PalmSource (PalmOS) has been bought up by Access.
>> And there is the Treo 700 running WM2005.
>>
>> And LG did sign on to PalmOS...
>>
>> So the best hope now is that Access won't destroy or inhibit PalmOS and
>> that LG sees fit to develop a good PalmOS phone, AND (biggest and...)
>> that the carriers will actually decide to adopt it (seeing as Sprint was
>> the one that killed the i550 (and ultimate Samsung's PalmOS line), not
>> Samsung itself..., just as VZW killed the i640/i645).
>
>