I've been closely watching (see my early compatibility reports for example
here, here, here, here and here) the evolution of Styletap, the Palm OS
emulator for the Pocket PC, for almost two years now.

Palm OS has some really cool and unmatched applications (for example,
MathLib, powerOne Graph and MedCalc) and games (for example, Edge and
Acedior) that hava never been ported to the Pocket PC.


StyleTap (rightfully!) is also the winner of the Utilities: Miscellaneous
Utilities category of the Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Best Software
Awards 2006.



Availability

The application is available here for all ARM-based platforms (that is, even
on Pocket PC 2000 / 2002 ARM-based Pocket PC's). The commercial version
costs a whopping $49.99 but there is a 14-day and, otherwise, unrestricted
trial.

Edge compatibility

Of course, the first program I've tested was Edge, the greatest role playing
game for the Palm OS - and probably all non-gaming handheld device platforms
(see this, this and, again, this for more info on how it compares to other
(Pocket PC) RPG games). I was really delighted to see that, it was clearly
more enjoyable than the beta versions of the emulator.

.... more at:



http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.

In article <OmtXQod$GHA.4496@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>,
"Werner \"Menneisyys\" Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices]"
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> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

I've been using StyleTap on my Pocket Loox 720 for quite a while and I
trialed it earlier on my hx2415. I bought it when I sold my last Palm
device so I could run SmartLists-to-Go and Shadow Plan, neither of which
have "acceptable" alternatives in the WM world. (Yes, there are other
database programs and outliners for WM - but none with the feature set
and ease of use of these two Palm programs).

At $30, it was well worth the price, and the program works as
advertised. The major limitation of the program is lack of conduit
support so files have to be moved on and off the device manually. If you
can live with that limitation, then the program is great.

Also, it is best to use with a VGA device as QVGA devices will not run
at the higher resolution modes and quite frankly, look pretty crappy. On
a VGA device, running at 360x360 looks as good as it does on a Palm
device running at that resolution. I agree with Warner that the lack of
480x320 support is a major shortcoming - even in landscape mode, you
still only get 360x360. I was really hoping that they would add support
for this resolution in the 1.x version, but it didn't happen.

At its current price, I would be extremely reluctant to buy. I thought
$30 was reasonable, but $49 is really too much unless you really have an
overwhelming need to run a Palm OS program on your WM device and there's
no alternative in a native WM program. It'll be interesting to see how
well it sells at that price point or if they'll be forced to lower the
price. As Warner states, you'd probably be better off just buying a used
T3 for not much more than the current cost of StyleTap.

Don