This is great, great news! (Even greater than announcing a N810 release).

I switched from Palm to the IT, now I can have both. Great!

I hope they implement a full screen rotated version of it!!

great!

Update: "Garnet VM display configuration (screen rotation, background color/image)" from their website

Ehm, Mobipocket-Reader?! A new world of ebooks...

http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/index.html
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For now, it is good enough to carry around old databases that you don't want to convert. But a stamp size virtual screen is hardly useful for real work - the original Palm screen resolutions are minuscule at the high pixel pitch of the IT series. Readers will barely be useful until they add high-res emulation beyond the capabilities of Palm hardware.

Sevo

Just a note of caution here.

I'm a former long-time OS/2 user and I've always felt that one of the things that ended up hurting OS/2 was it's ability to seamlessly run Win3.X programs. Why? Because many developers simply wrote for the Microsoft platform, knowing that OS/2 users could run the applications mainly hassle-free.

We need a vibrant developer community and native applications more than emulation software.

Of course, but it'll help user to switch as they can run Palm OS Application.

Just awesome and the kind of thing I was waiting for. I have a ton of Palm apps that I wanted to see the equivelents of some for the 810 and now it looks like I can have them all! I hope this is the real deal but since Access bought PalmSoft they havethe capability and rights to do this.. this is really sticking it to Palm and they deserve it.

Khertan, I heard those exact words in the early 90s when I was running OS/2 Warp. I'm just sayin...

Thanks for the link btw., I was just about to asking you folks how long it took to get that email.. got nothing so far. But in the meantime I can actually try it now!