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I never cared about mobile gaming in the era, so I can only go on what I used the device for: communication and personal information management. PalmOS was good
by ubermonkey 4y ago
I never cared about mobile gaming in the era, so I can only go on what I used the device for: communication and personal information management. PalmOS was good at those things.
To be fair to Sony, there wasn't really any other horse to bet on in that era. The problem was their hardware was fragile vs. Palm or Handspring devices.
- stephc_int13 4y agoSymbian and WinCE were relatively strong competitors. And there was an attempt at Linux + Qt made by Sharp with the Zaurus and Qtopia.
- ubermonkey 4y agoEr, no. Symbian had some presence via Nokia devices, but was kinda an also-ran in the US in terms of actual viable smartphone platforms. WinCE and WinMo were gawdawful and unusable unless you were just really, really drinking the Redmond Kool-Aid. (Amusingly, if you Google "symbian" now the first link is for a thing that is absolutely not related to smartphones, but which uses a name that is "symbian" without the "m". NSFW.)
- stephc_int13 4y agoSymbian was a contender in Europe, many mobile gaming companies in Europe started on this Platform, especially in Finland/UK. Remember the Ngage? It was nothing compared to what came later, but if you were in this business at that time, Symbian was a thing.
- ubermonkey 4y agoYeah, my bias is definitely US, since that’s where I live. Symbian devices were very very few and far between for us.