Archive for February, 2005

HP iPAQ rz1710

The slim, sleek HP iPAQ rz1710 Pocket PC has the essentials you need at the value you want. A broad range of features, popular applications, expansion capabilities, and multimedia make the HP iPAQ rz1710 Pocket PC essential for you to be productive at work, at home, or on the go. An industry standard SD slot […]

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

New Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA Coming - Rumor

I4U has a rumor of a new Sharp Zaurus PDA:

‘AkihabaraNews has heard from a reseller in Japan that Sharp might introduce an new Zaurus PDA in March.’

Read more at I4U News - Rumor: New Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA Coming

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Sony abandons PDA market

‘Sony Corp. said Wednesday it would stop making personal digital assistants for Japan as early as July, marking its complete withdrawal from the declining handheld computer industry.
The Tokyo-based electronics giant already pulled out of the overseas market last year so its move to end production of its Clie handheld in Japan was widely expected.
Sony still […]

Friday, February 25th, 2005

palmOne May Be Committing Itself to Wi-Fi

‘If a recent leak is correct, palmOne may be taking a step to remedy this. According to an anonymous source, the company will soon begin bundling its Wi-Fi SD card with both the Tungsten T5 and Zire 72.
While bundling accessories with handhelds isn’t unusual, what makes this move significant is these bundles will be sold […]

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

PalmSource shows off new smart phone software

‘PalmSource introduced a range of mobile phone software and third-party applications at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes on Monday, highlighting its extension from PDAs (personal digital assistants) to smart phones.
The handheld OS (operating system) provider highlighted four new applications that draw on the company’s recent acquisition of China MobileSoft, which makes a version of […]

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Nintendo PDAs?

‘Nintendo had recently licensed Palm OS based PDA software without any details on why they had done it. Nintendo sources have now revealed that the V-Pocket patent filed by Nintendo a few days ago concerns this licensing. E3 2005 will be the first witness of the Nintendo V-Pocket suite: a complete line of personal organizer […]

Monday, February 14th, 2005

How to Upgrade your PDA

Bargain PDA has a good guide on How to Upgrade your PDA

‘For many people, they have a PDA that doesn’t fit their usage patterns any more and need something that will get them through the next season of their PDA lives. This guide is dedicated to the upgraders. If, whether because you want the latest […]

Friday, February 11th, 2005

palmOne Tries to Alienate More People, Raises Price $100 on the GSM Treo 650

‘Over the past few hours palmOne compounded the damage already done (releasing the Treo 650 with a poor memory configuration, weak and neutered Bluetooth radio, missing WiFi…the list goes on) by raising the price of the unlocked Treo 650 by $100. palmOne is citing a pricing error, but that factual misrepresentation is extremely transparent.’

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Sunday, February 6th, 2005

PDA Shipments Still Sliding

PDA Street reports tht PDA sales are continuing to slide in number

‘Shipments of PDAs declined by 13 percent in 2004, according to IDC, the third successive year of negative growth for the PDA market.
IDC’s “Worldwide Handheld QView” report showed that device shipments fell on a year-over-year basis by 18.7 percent in the fourth quarter of […]

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

HP hw6500 Mobile Messenger

Load of pictures of HP’s new hw6500 PDA/Phone surfaced today across a number of sites.

ere is quite a bit of speculation around about the hw6500’s features and size but here is what people are guessing at the moment having seen these photos:

- Engadget estimates it could be around 4.75 inches high, 2.86 inches wide and […]

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

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