Palm OS is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface, and was provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management; later versions of the OS were extended to support smartphones.
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SignificanceImplemented on a wide array of mobile devices, including smartphones, wrist watches, handheld gaming consoles, barcode readers and GPS devices 1 Classification
LicenseProprietary (Closed Source) 2 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Palm OS
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1. Wikipedia: Palm OS
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1996
OS overview
it has been implemented on a wide array of mobile devices, including smartphones, wrist watches, handheld gaming consoles, barcode readers and GPS devices
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Palm OS is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996.
In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
Palm OS (later versions of which were also known as Garnet OS) is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical
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- Wikidata Q274582 P571 (inception)
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