The pervasive Palm influence will be taking root in Europe with a new smartphone Research & Development center in Dublin.We may be on the eve of a smartphone gaming revolution.
Palm is definitely not a technological evolutionary amoeba when it comes to innovation, as they've shown us with the surprising Windows Mobile 5 enabled Treo 700w contender mentioned in a blog entry earlier this month.
This Treo is yet to be granted an official name besides the "Windows Mobile Treo".
This release turned the PDA gaming community on its ear with this unusual union. It's the PDA game gravy to the massive Microsoft goose.
I'm betting that Palm founder Jeff Hawkins never thought he would see the day after his PalmPilot and Treo inventions started gaining ground after his innovations took off in 1996.
The web is rife with speculaton that the more linear Palm PDA devices will eventually disappear as we pick up on the Smartphone versatility craze.
It's true that the air is thick with handheld device gaming convergence as indicated by a few of my past articles like my WiFi HotSpots Gaming article where I've given it passing mention.
A recent WM 5 for smartphone review on mobile-review.com mentions compatibility issues with newer games.
Many smartphone games utilizing 176x220 only takes up half of the display in the upper left hand corner according to early tests.
Given the Windows Mobile penchant to provide compatibility with older games, we shouldn't see many issues after a few updates.
PDA gamers versed with the orientation capabilities of WM 5 may subscribe to its landscape-on-the-fly gaming abilities.
At least Palm has shown that its not afraid to put its best gaming foot foward as our devices become less singular in functionality.
