In Old Man’s War, the John Scalzi novel, a 75-year-old retired ad writer named John Perry gets a new body to go off and fight for the earthlings against all kinds of obnoxious aliens. So why not apply the same idea to software? Let a sleek Nokia or iPhone run ancient Palm apps; why rely on a tired old company like Palm, which lacks the imagination and guts to recycle the Palm TX as an e-book machine? Not such a bad idea, right? I in fact tried out a Palm emulator for Nokia handhelds and found

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