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Announcing Garnet VM Beta 2 for Nokia Nseries
Garnet OS expands the solid foundation of Palm OS 5 by
incorporating standard support for a broad range of screen
resolutions and expanded support for wireless connections
including Bluetooth®. It also includes enhanced multimedia
capabilities, a suite of robust security options and support
for a broad set of languages.
Garnet OS also offers flexibility for licensees to customize
the software to build devices for different market segments
such as phone, multimedia, educational or enterprise.
Garnet OS is delivered to Garnet OS licensees as part of the
Product Development Kit (PDK). A Software Development
Kit (SDK), that allows Garnet OS developers to create
applications or test their compatibility with Garnet OS, is
also available on the ACCESS developer web site.
 Garnet OS brochure (PDF: 152 KB)
Product Details
Performance
- Native 32-bit, ARM™ 4T based architecture, 16-bit ARM™ Thumb support, ARM™ 7TDMI based microprocessors.
- PACE (Palm Application Compatibility Environment) is built-in for 68k applications
- Reference hardware: Intel Xscale PXA-250 board — Motorola MXL board
Display Support
- Support for Low-density: 160x160*, 160x220**, 176x220** (with padding)
- High-density: 320x320*, QVGA* (240x320) and HVGA** (320x480)
- Minimum configuration supporting at least 160x160 grayscale LCD
- 16bit color
- User selectable and customizable color themes
- High-density features backward compatible with low-density applications
- Languages supported: (EFIGS), Japanese (J) and Simplified Chinese (SC)
- Low and high-density system fonts, customizable and substitutable by licensees
- Extended country coverage in formatting preferences and time zone lists
*Silk Screen
**Dynamic Input area (DIA)
Memory Requirements
- ROM size
- Minimum requirement of 4MB Flash ROM
- 8MB ROM recommended for EFIGS-J and Simplified Chinese
- RAM Size
- Small minimum RAM requirement: less than 300KB is needed by Garnet OS
- Up to 128MB RAM
- Minimum of 1MB SDRAM
 Garnet OS expands the success of the current class of
mobile devices and enhances the capability to reach new
markets while revolutionizing the way that people use
mobile devices.
Native Applications
- 68k applications support through PACE environment
- ARM library support
- Launcher*
- Address Book*
- Memo Pad*
- To Do*
- HotSync® synchronization client
- Security Application
- Preferences
- Expansion card info
- Calculator
- SMS application
*Supports DIA
Input Methods
- Grafitti® 2 character recognition
- Pinyin input method (Simplified Chinese)
- Handwriting Recognition Kit
- Offers flexibility to allow licensees to develop and integrate third party handwriting solutions
- Chinese-English dictionary is integrated with PIM and third party applications
Desktop Software and Synchronization Solution
- Manage personal information: Add, edit, and delete addresses, appointments, to-do items and memos using a desktop computer
- Data and applications on the device can be synchronized
and backed up with Palm Desktop using the
HotSync operation
- Garnet OS-based applications can also be installed to the
handheld using the Garnet OS Install Tool
Communication
- Serial communication (one minimum serial port required)
- RS232 serial
- IrDA
- USB
- Bluetooth
- Drivers for SD and MMC cards
- New network library with Ethernet support for 802.11 drivers
- Integration of communication protocols and applications for object exchange (Exchange Manager)
Networking Support
- TCP/IP network library
- PPP stack
- OBEX
- Telephony and SMS APIs
Security
- Cryptographic Provider Management (CPM) with default crypto provider
- RC4 symmetric encryption
- SHA1 hashing
- RSA verify algorithm
- FIPS Provider with the following crypto algorithms*:
- AES-CBC, AES-ECB, AES-CFB (128,192 and 256 bit)
- 3DES-CBC, 3DES-ECB, 3DES-CFB8, 3DES-CFB64, 3DES-OFB (2 key and 3 key)
- SHA-1, SHA-2 (not covered by FIPS)
- HMAC-SHA-1
*To be released as an option to licensees. Certification pending as of Q1
Authentication
- PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP v.1 & MS-CHAP v.2 for authentication over PPP (Includes authentication to RADIUS servers)
Secure Communication
Sound
- Sampled Sound APIs (data processing, generation and GUI not included)
- Sound resource format, backward compatible with previous sound APIs
- APIs for controlling audio stream
- Playback of up to 15 streams* at one time, recording of a single stream in native format
- Audio format support for PCM raw and IMA ADPCM compressed data, 1 or 2 channels, any sampling rate
- HAL APIs for access to audio hardware and mixer
- Square wave generator emulation for devices that do not have a hardware square wave generator
- Streams can be: Mono/Stereo, 8/16-bit, arbitrary sample rates
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