‘SALES OF handheld devices continue to fall said IDC, which said the worldwide market has fallen for a seventh consecutive quarter.
In the third calendar quarter of 2005, IDC said shipments fell 16.9 per cent year on year, and 8.8 per cent sequentially, at 1.6 million units.
But that’s not stopping manufacturers continuing to introduce additional features […]
‘NINTENDO announced a licensing deal with Zi Corporation to use their Decuma handwriting recognition software on unspecified DS titles.
The Decuma portfolio fits in three different recognition products, the first for recognising alphabetic languages including English, French, German and Italian. A second recognises both simplified and traditional Chinese while a third handles Japanese (including Kanji).’
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‘Palm’s Treo smart phone out-shipped the company’s traditional PDA products during Q3, the latest figures from market watcher Canalys reveals.
And in a sign that buyers want phones with PDA functionality, rather than PDAs that can make calls, Nokia and Motorola proved the most successful mobile device players in the calendar quarter.
Palm Treo shipments jumped 71 […]
Computerworld reviews the Palm Tungsten TX and writes - ‘Palm’s new TX sacrifices some of the storage and processing power of its predecessor, the Tungsten T5, in exchange for wi-fi and a lower price. The result: more bang for the buck…. 4 stars out of 5 - Stylish PDA has beautiful screen, wi-fi, and ample […]
Bargain PDA reviews the HP rx1950 Pocket PC and writes - ‘Interestingly, HP limited this model to integrated 802.11b wireless and an IR port. There is no built-in Bluetooth radio. Since the cost of a BT radio is mimimal, this feature set was probably left out to force those seeking built-in Bluetooth to move up […]
MyPalmLife reviews the NoviiRemote Deluxe for Pocket PC and writes - ‘My major test for NoviiRemote Deluxe was my HP iPAQ 4705. Every other remote application I had put on it had failed and failed badly. I even used Griffin Technology’s Total Remote which comes with its own IR port. That didn’t work, either. So […]
‘Portable Innovation Technology Limited (PiTech) has taken the wraps off the world’s first Palm OS smartphone to include a three megapixel camera with auto focus and anti hand shaking features.
The PiTech I-10 is based on the smartphone platform developed by this company and built on the Palm OS Garnet operating system.
This device will have a […]
Trusted Reviews has posted a review of the Palm Tungsten TX PDA and writes - ‘For the most part palm seems to have done a good job with the T|X, packing in features and offering the whole bundle at a good price.
Building in WiFi brings the T|X up to the connectivity standard I expect from […]
Engadget also has a couple of photos comparing the HTC Wizard vs. HTC Apache
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Engadget has a good comparative photo preview of the Nokia E61 vs. the Treo 650.