Brighthand has released an article with more information on the upcoming Palm OS 6. The main points are the following:

* Codenamed Sahara
* PalmSource will finish up work on Palm OS 6 on December 29
* It will come with an API to allow both portrait and landscape modes
* Developers will be able to create ARM-native applications
* Run legacy apps written for the older versions of the operating system
* Support for threading and background processes, which will allow multiple apps to run at the same time
* Includes a protected memory system, so each application has its own dynamic heap for stability
* End of some limitations that have irritated users for years, including the 16-category limit and the 4k limit on memos
* Include APIs for roaming on wireless networks
* Use of pluggable I/O interfaces
* Use multimedia and graphics frameworks from BeOS
* Support for Web services and accessing Microsoft Exchange and Lotus email servers
* Ability to view files in the formats business users typically use, like Microsoft Office documents and Adobe Acrobat PDFs


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