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The Else Emblaze Smartphone: Welcome To The Retrofuture

6:06AM January 8, 2010 | John Herrman

It’s a left-field product: a touchscreen smartphone with totally new software, which will have to fend for itself among well-established giants. Conventional wisdom would say it’s doomed, and conventional wisdom may be right. But damnit, I really like the Emblaze. More »

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Else Intuition OS Looks Pretty Sweet On First Phone Expected Mid-2010

10:55PM November 25, 2009 | Danny Allen

This video is the best-look yet at the slick OpenGL-accelerated OS from Else (formerly Emblaze) and Access (who developed a next-gen Palm OS before Palm ditched it for their own). The big news: The First Else phone arrives next-year. More »

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Else Intuition: The Surprisingly Not-Sad Fate Of Palm OS

2:33AM October 24, 2009 | John Herrman

In 2006, Access bought the rights to Palm OS, and licensed the code to Palm. Access spent plenty of time and money developing a next-gen OS, which Palm totally ignored for their own. Things looked grim! Until this thing. More »

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Massive Emblaze Edelweiss Poised to Take On iPhone (In Russia)

4:40AM October 1, 2008 | John Herrman

Having received a tacit endorsement from President Medvedev, the iPhone might have won the political battle for Russian touchscreen dominance, but Emblaze has a more traditional plan to take on Apple: with price and features. Emblaze’s Edelweiss is an impressive slab of phone, with an HTC-trumping 480 x 854 touchscreen, 3G, GPS and 8 or 16 GB of internal storage. If the OS is passable and the phone can undercut the ludicrously expensive iPhone 3G then purported carrier MTS might have a winner on their hands come October. But that’s not all. According to their website, Emblaze has bigger plans.

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