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FO Data Collector
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     <option value="1">Jerome Bettis (jb@football.com)</option>
     <option value="2">Tommy Maddox (tm@football.com)</option>
     <option value="3">Fred Jones (fred@fo.com)</option>
     <option value="4">Raju Kunaparaju (info@fo.com)</option>
     <option value="5">Joe Smith (JoeS@funtv.com)</option> 

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WAP screen

• "Set as many default options as possible or code them in the menu to save the user from entering text. Be aware that most WAP browsers are in cellular phones, which don't have a normal keyboard. "
  
  
• "URLs should be short and easy to remember, not only because of the limited size of the display but also because of the keyboard on cell phones."
  
  
• "Keep important information at the top of all screens."

Wapalizer

What is PACE? 

(at least several of) Palm's next generation PDAs will use the ARM (Intel) processor, rather than the DragonBall (Motorola) processor. This is being done to increase performance, now and in the future. Palms' new operating system OS5 is written to operate on the ARM processor.

Current PalmOS developers have been concerned that pre-existing applications will not run on OS5. The PACE ("Palm Application Compatibility Environment") is a layer that Palm will provide under OS5 to run OS4 (and prior) Motorola instruction-based Palm applications. Due to the increased performance of the ARM -- it is expected that applications from previous versions of the PalmOS will not run appreciably slower within the PACE environment.

A quote from the PalmOS site will "Sort of" make OS4 developers feel a little bit better about the chances of their pre-OS5 apps running on the new OS:

"Existing applications that comply with the documented APIs of Palm OS 4.0, which don't make assumptions about hardware or use unsupported OS structures, and which run under the Palm OS Emulator with debug ROMs, will generally work very well on Palm OS 5 devices. This is possible because of the Palm Application Compatibility Environment (known as PACE) - it interprets the 68k-family instructions of existing applications, and makes them run on the ARM processor."


Useful Development Note for C/C++ developers wanting to test OS5 for OS4 application compatibility 

"A highly recommended way to test for access to unsupported structures is to add
"#define DO_NOT_ALLOW_ACCESS_TO_INTERNALS_OF_STRUCTS"
before including <PalmOS.h> into .c and .cpp files. This causes the compiler to flag incorrect accesses during compile time. (This is turned on by default in the 4.0 SDK Update.) The Palm OS Emulator version 3.4 and higher, as well as the Palm OS Simulator, also flag incorrect accesses that the compiler might not be able to notice."


PACE References
For more information about PACE, see the following sites:
(http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3863)
(http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos5/os5overview.html#pace)
Palm OS5 Windows "Simulator" (http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/simulator/)

Note: The OS5 Simulator is Not an emulator upgrade. Parts (such as the similarly named ROMs) are not interchangeable.

YOPY

YOPY specs:


• 206 MHz StrongARM SA-1110 32-bit Microprocessor.
• 3.5" 240 x 320 pixel resolution 16-bit TFT-LCD display.
• CCFL Back-light.
• Web browser(Spyglass source license), HTML 4.0, CSS 1.0, JavaScript 1.4, Jscript 3.0, HTTP 1.1.
• Options: Compact Flash type-II(CF-II) Digital Camera, CF-II Bluetooth Card, CF-II GPS, Memory card, Micro-drive Hard disk.
• Other specifications.