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"It's unique among form factors," said John Cooke, senior director of product marketing for Palm, highlighting the security SD offers and the advantages gained from its small size. An SD card is about the size of a postage stamp, he said. Handspring has "serious limitations because of the size of the Springboard device," he added.
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is palm smoking crack?
Handspring has the Springboard
Sony has the memorystick
TRG has the CF Slot
and there are others who have come up with clip on expandability options.
RE: is palm smoking crack?
RE: is palm smoking crack?
I don't like new nonstandards
RE: I don't like new nonstandards
Palm has taken the intelligent approach of incorporating expansion compatibility into future OS releases. This includes, SD, Springboard, Memory Stick, CF and Sony's "Piece of gum:)".
I personally believe they chose the best standard based on Form Factor and expandability into such emerging markets as MP3 and streaming video.
Lastly, "All those folks complaining that Palm didn't chose the Sprinboard need to understand that Handspring has chosen NOT to license the technology at this time. This isn't to say this IS the reason they didn't chose Springboard its simply a statement of fact".
Signed,
'A very happy IIIX owner'
SD vs. Springboard
I'm confused. Why none is addressing the hardware expandability?
RE: SD vs. Springboard
Never mind. We can choose any device this time ;)
RE: SD vs. Springboard
RE: SD vs. Springboard
RE: SD vs. Springboard
- http://www.purepalm.com/pp/content/articles/dir/0000000016/index.htm
Richard Kettner
Playing Favorites
Expansion
RE: Expansion
more info @
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http://www.visorcentral.com/page/0-4-62-1-4.htm
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with pics
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see the springboard module is more versatile than everyother format because it can because anyone of them
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VBox :-
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RE: Expansion
- http://www.purepalm.com/pp/content/articles/dir/0000000009.htm
Richard Kettner
MMCs?!
That depends upon the *file format* used by the card. InnoGear's MMC file format might not be compatible (at least not initially; you can bet they will work with Palm to fix that).
RE: MMCs?!
Sony Memory Stick
The Springboard is a cool idea but i gotta say, it is a little to big for my tastes. It does limit the thinness of a Visor. It will never be as thin as the palm V.
The Memory stick is the best of both worlds in my opinion. Its small but very durable. its also thin, it could definitely be integrated into a Palm V form factor. And I think it has a lot of potential, although I think Sony screwed themselves when they let the lawyers do the designing and now they got the Magicgate memory stick, for the MP3 players. I think that this will kill the memory stick. if they kept it to one standard they'd have a winnner. But this new memory stick has split the market. The original Memory sticks could be used in any of the sony devices that offered it. Now you have to have a Magic Gate reader to read the MP3 sticks, and the memory for the MP3 player isn't backwords compatible with the older sticks. Sony had a great idea and screwed it up.
So I guess we're stuck with the SD from Palm. I really don't think handspring can cut it with their springboards. They also screwed up when they put out visors without the flash rom. Palms gonna retain the market, and I have a feeling that the SD will win out over sony's memory stick.
But thats just my 2 cents
RE: Sony Memory Stick <--- that's bull :)
The Springboard is cool b/c you can stick a ton of stuff in there besides memory. And 1/2 you Palm nerds are just using up that memory for games, right? Or stupid DB stuff.
Or maybe you have a "real use" for it? HA HA HA
Secondly, the Springboard is a good size for a real expansion, like a camera or mp3 player or whatever.
I don't like the flimsy cover over the Springboard slot, and I think some Palms have cooler cases, but basically the Handspring Visor (deluxe, specifically) is faster and kicks butt over the Palm series.
That's my 2 cents.
But basically, I think it's all a toy anyways, so people should LIGHTEN UP!
Peas!
Palm IIIX
RE: Palm IIIX
RE: Palm IIIX
Oh, and since the IIIx can take the AxxPac, and memory stuff from TRG, it's probably a lot more expandable than most of their other current offerings, which have to be expanded with a SMD Soldering station.
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