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by Apocryphon 2902 days ago
I've always wondered what BeOS would look like as a smartphone platform. Even from a UX standpoint, similar to the Windows 95 Mobile concept video.
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It would have looked a lot like PalmOS 6, a/k/a PalmOS Cobalt. Palm bought Be's assets -- and many of their engineers -- when the company failed, and built their next generation PalmOS around it. For reasons as much due to internal politics as anything technical, though, they never shipped any Cobalt-based phones.