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Palm’s new OS codenamed “Nova”?

January 11th, 2008 | Category: Mobile Technology

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Palm Infocenter is reporting that the codename being thrown around internally in reference it its Linux based next-gen operating system is “Nova.” The phrase “no va” in Spanish literally translates to “not going,” but wait — it gets better: we’re also hearing that Nova is being tested on the Zeppelin device, a type of airship with a reputation for crashing and burning back in the day. Now look, we’d love to see Palm pull out of its tailspin just as much as the next guy and wow us with some hot, new software on top of hot, new hardware, but this naming convention isn’t doing it any favors, now is it?

 

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Original post by Chris Ziegler

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