Comments on: Comdex Good for Handspring, Palm Stock Price

Whatever it was that investors wanted to hear, Handspring and Palm seem to have said it at Comdex. Handspring's stock price almost doubled this week. Palm's went up 30%, possibly on Handspring's coat-tails. Handspring co-founder Jeff Hawkins demonstrated the Treo wireless handheld at a Comdex keynote address and the audience responded very positively.

Handspring's stock price can only have been helped by the announcement that the Treo 180 and 180g will be out in January and the color version should be out three months later. This is earlier than expected.

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I.M. Anonymous @ 11/17/2001 12:08:56 PM #

This is good for Handspring, as it looks like the company was falling, especially after the Edge was released. Let's see if the Treo lives to people's expectations...

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I.M. Anonymous @ 11/17/2001 8:45:26 PM #

I am still mad at myself for missing the stock price surge.

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Coyote67 @ 11/17/2001 8:56:32 PM #

I agree. The edge seemed, although I thought it was a great product, was just put out for the hell of putting it out. The adapter was an interesting idea, but sadly didn't win exceptance. The Treo is definatly a landmark product. I would expect it to become a great sucess.

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I.M. Anonymous @ 11/20/2001 12:12:24 PM #

Coyote, why do you consider the Treo a "landmark" product? I saw a demo at Comdex of it, and aside from the mini-keyboard, the Kyocera does everything Troe does but was out a year earlier. Oh, and the Treo doesn't have voice dialing, which is a luxury now, but is becoming a necessity as more and more towns ban driving and talking like here in Miami. We're required to have not just a handsfree ear piece, but also voice dialing capabilities to use a cell phone in Miami-Dade County.