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StyleTap: Use Palm programs on Windows Mobile devices
Thinking about switching from Palm to Windows Mobile, but don't want to give up that one special application you can't do without? Or maybe you're a Windows Mobile user and you desperately want to play the Palm-only role-playing game Edge?For the past year and a half, the best solution has been StyleTap, a program that allows you to run Palm applications on Windows Mobile devices. Tens of thousands of users tested a public beta version of the software. Recently, StyleTap hit version 1.0, which means a bunch of bug fixes and significantly improved speed and compatibility with most Palm programs.
There are still some programs that won't work, and Styletap only supports resolutions up to 320 x 320 pixels, so you're out of luck if if you have a VGA Windows Mobile device, or if you want to emulate a Palm program that runs at 480 x 320.
StyleTap 1.0 is available for $50, but if you purchased a registration key for the software preview the upgrade is free. There's also a 14 day free trial available.
There's a are lists of Palm OS applications that are reportedly compatible with StyleTap here and here.
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Subscribe to commentsBob ChewNov 17th 2006 7:06AM
Thank you for the review. However, I'd like to clear up a misconception.
StyleTap supports resolutions of 160 X 160, 240 X 240, 320 X 320 and 480 X 480. Most Palm applications are written to use "standard" coordinates and will run fine on any of these resolutions. Consequently, most Palm applications work very well on a VGA device using StyleTap.
Some Palm applications are resolution specific and since there are currently no 240 X 240 or 480 X 480 devices, they run into problems when running at these resolutions. The good news is that many developers are adding support for these resolutions to their applications. This not only optimizes the appearance of their applications when running under StyleTap, but is something they need to do for the future ALP devices anyhow.
Bob ChewNov 17th 2006 7:06AM
One other thing I should mention is that some Palm applications such as Google Maps are already written to take maximum advantage of a VGA screen and run extremely well under StyleTap.