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Just had a mini brainwave,...

Could I buy a Japanese PalmVx (that come with 4mb ROMs)
and flash an English version of the operating system
over it...

To give me more of that oh so handy space in flash memory.

I am presuming that the Japanese and UK prices are fairly
similar, the Japanese one may even turn out cheaper...

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Quote:>Just had a mini brainwave,...

>Could I buy a Japanese PalmVx (that come with 4mb ROMs)
>and flash an English version of the operating system
>over it...

Since there is nodody who manged to flash german OS3.5 to english OS3.5, I guess it'll be unlikely
one can manage to flash from j->e.

Quote:

>To give me more of that oh so handy space in flash memory.

The idea itself is great!

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>I am presuming that the Japanese and UK prices are fairly
>similar, the Japanese one may even turn out cheaper...

Last year I was in Japan and found the price of a V uhm.. a biiit higher than in Europe.
I'm wondering why TRG always uses the III as a platform, why not start to sell V-based models with
e.g. 2 or 4MB Flash?

Gunter

Quote:> Could I buy a Japanese PalmVx (that come with 4mb ROMs) and flash an
> English version of the operating system over it...

I haven't actually seen a real Japanese Palm; but, the POSE emulator has
a 'skin' for it which shows different hardware buttons than the
equivalent US models.  That indicates that there are more hardware
differences than just the additional flash ROM.

Jon Davis

If there were more buttons then that would be true,... but
how does changing the icons on the buttons necessitate
changing the hardware ?

I'm not flaming,.. just curious
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Tom Matthews

I'll have to correct myself.  I looked again at the Japanese 'skin' on POSE;
and, the hardware buttons are the same.  The difference is in the silkscreened
buttons.  In addition to the standard 4 silkscreened buttons (launcher, menu,
find, calculator), there are an additional 4 silkscreened buttons.  They have
Japanese characters on them; so, I don't know what they do.  I supposed they
have something to do with shifting for double-byte character support.  Due to
these additional silkscreened buttons, the graffiti input area is smaller;
although, it is still split in 2 parts (alpha and numeric).

Jon Davis

Quote:> buttons.  In addition to the standard 4 silkscreened buttons (launcher,
menu,
> find, calculator), there are an additional 4 silkscreened buttons.  They
have
> Japanese characters on them; so, I don't know what they do.  I supposed
they
> have something to do with shifting for double-byte character support.  Due

to

They are probably for input method/kana selection. I would guess one is for
romaji, one for hiragana, one for katakana and one for direct kanji input (I
don't know much about HWR technology for kanji, but I think it would be
fairly easy to recognize the characters directly).

Given that they're all just spots on the same tablet, they aren't really a
hardware difference. With a US ROM, a Japanese Palm device would work fine,
and vice versa (though some guesswork required to find the hotspots when
running Japanese ROM on US screen :)

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Not knowing much about Japanese at all, I would still find it reasonable
to assume that one of the choices would be the roman alphabet - japanese
people still have to enter email addresses and similar using roman
letters, don't they?

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Quite right - "romaji" is what the Japanese call the Roman alphabet.

Cheers,
 Daniel.

I've looked around for a while, but I cannot seem to find
a website that describes (in english) or sells these Japanese
Palm devices :(

Any ppl out there with a Japanese version ?
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one can purchase software to enable the palm vx to read and write
japanese characters ... steve

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:57:25 +0100, Tom Matthews - Sun UK - PreSales

Cheers Steven, but not really what I'm asking...
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