Palm's bid to join the modern era of mobile computing will have to wait a little longer.
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The company reported yet another quarterly loss last week, and The Register reported that Palm CEO Ed Colligan had tweaked the shipping expectations for the company's new Linux-based operating system, known as Palm OS II.
Once thought to arrive in early 2009, the new operating system is now targeted for the first half of 2009.
Palm has managed to keep its brand afloat over the past year with the success of the Centro, an inexpensive version of the Treo. Palm sold more than 1 million smartphones during the past quarter, but it's not clear whether Palm actually makes any money on the sale of a Centro. The company reported a net loss of US$41.9 million for the quarter.
The current version of Palm OS was first introduced in 2004 and hasn't really been updated since 2006. Observers say Palm needs new software to challenge the likes of Apple, Research In Motion, Symbian, and now Google.
