Rants Raves
...h calendar, address book and dialup connections and also its own language and PC-based development kit.
However, I eagerly await the new product from Handspring, due this fall as I have yet to find a phone/PDA that was really satisfactory and I'm hoping that this new one will be it.
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Date: 06/0......more...PalmPilot Pioneer Returns Home
... left in frustration? By Elisa Batista.
By Elisa Batista
2:00 a.m. June 5, 2003 PDT
When handheld gadget-maker Palm said Wednesday it would buy rival Handspring, no one should have been more relieved than Handspring chairman Jeff Hawkins.
If Palm hadn't decided to buy it, Handspring likely would hav......more... Palm Snaps Up Handspring
Palm Snaps Up Handspring
Palm announces a stock swap to acquire its rival Handspring. The deal will unite the pioneers of the handheld industry and bring two Palm co-founders, who left to form Handspring, back to the fold. Palm will also spin off the unit that makes its operating software.
By Reuter...more... Can a Keyboard Light the Way?
...g you really need to have.
Still, the virtual keyboard would have distinct advantages over the QWERTY thumb keyboards on Palm's Tungsten line and the Handspring Treo models, which incorporated the mini keyboards into the devices after BlackBerry models became a hit, Baker said.
Ergonomically, virtua......more... Now Bloggers Can Hit the Road
...de cell phones running the Symbian operating system, many Sprint PCS phones, the Blackberry from RIM, and many Palm handhelds running OS 3.5, such as Handspring's Treo.
Todd Courtois, creator of Kablog, offers the program for free as shareware and says that word-of-mouth has already generated severa......more... Palm Unveils Two Pricey PDAs
...cell phone separately when they can have it all on one device, said Francois Parenteau, who heads his own market research firm Parenteau Corporation.
Handspring (HAND), a Palm competitor, has scrapped all plans to make any more stand-alone PDAs, and is instead banking on its Treo Communicator -- a c......more... Nasdaq Takes AvantGo Down a Peg
... is considered superior to WAP because it supports full color, moving images and secure documents.
Palm said it is targeting smartphone partners like Handspring with the product.
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U.S. unwired: The number of cell-phone users in the United States will nearly double to 200 million in 2006, accord......more... Apple's Newton Just Won't Drop
... of fans still use it and keep its applications current. By Leander Kahney.
By Leander Kahney
2:00 a.m. Aug. 29, 2002 PDT
In January, Jonathan Wise's Handspring Visor organizer died, so he decided to get a different handheld.
After shopping around, he found a machine that did it all: Web, e-mail, ca......more... Red-Faced Palm Blows Color Count
...aware of the error until she received an inquiry from Wired News.
Last month, an anonymous person posted a picture comparing the 16-bit screen of the Handspring Visor Prism and the 16-bit screen of the Palm m130 on Geocities and Palm Infocenter message boards. For weeks, Palm aficionados debated on ......more... |