|
    Comments on: Garmin Discontinues Three iQue ModelsIn yet another tightening of the PDA belt, Garmin has quietly posted a notice of discontinuation on their website of two of their four Palm OS GPS-PDA hybrid handhelds. One of the company’s Windows Mobile-powered handhelds, the iQue M5 running WinMob 2003SE, is also discontinued. Garmin has not issued an official announcement short of adding the models to its discontinued product list and putting up a discontinued sign on its product pages.
Detailed Comment View (6 Total Comments)
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. PIC is not responsible for them in any way. login or register for free in order to post comments.  RE: I almost got one.
These are very snappy in my experience. That's the silver lining of lacking non-volatile RAM: it's the good/bad ol' days where all your data is always in RAM. David Beers Pikesoft Mobile Computing www.pikesoft.com/blog RE: I almost got one.
Too bad - they were decent units and quite snappy (even licensed the Palm "universal" connector of the day), but probably ahead of their time. Battery life was not so great, and people comparing processors would balk nowadays. I'm pretty sure they also had non-upgradeable firmware but could be wrong on this. Although Garmin started building PPC versions of these to mollify the Windoze contingent, they're really in a dead sector because of battery life. The dedicated GPS's are better, cheaper and allow for the handheld to be free for it's other functions. And the Bluetooth GPS units are extremely cheap and better now, combine them with Tom-Tom in your favorite PDA/Smartphone hardware and it's hard to justify the iQue's older hardware and price. One less competitor to force Palm to innovate is the real tragedy here. RE: I almost got one.
Garmin is still producing the 3000 and 3600A devices. The 3600A is a more-expensive version of the 3600 that's certified for use in airplanes and comes with a special plane-mounted cradle for in-flight use.
It could be a chip availability issue -- the older 3600 and 3200 devices used older versions of Freescale's MX chips, and they may be end-of-lifed. The 3000 uses a newer MX chip, IIRC. 
 They're all dead. DEAD.The_Voice_of_Reason @ 11/13/2006 2:08:12 PM #
Sony - Sonny-Boy left in disgust (has anyboby seen the lost sheep, Cobalt?) Tapwave - tapped out Fossil - sunk into the tar pit after a comedy of errors HandEra - squeezed out by Palm/PalmSource greed + told to "Talk to the HAND" HuneTec - Who Tec? Kyocera - Left YEARS ago - Sayonara YKyocera Samsung - swansong was 3 YEARS ago; PalmOS plans killed by failure to deliver products to Sprint in a timely manner Handspring - staggering near bankruptcy, forced to give HANDjob to Palm AlphaSmart - went the way of the dumb dodo Garmin - can no longer be located Legend - never happened Symbol - signs indicate they actually more or less checked out 2 years ago Acer - Bwahahahah! This company was a Joker So who's left? Aceeca - oh dear, the future of PalmOS rests in a sickos hands
TVoR RE: They're all dead. DEAD.
Actually Garmin still has two Palm OS iQues, one regular and one for pilots. AlphaSmart still sells the Dana Wireless. Janam takes Symbol's place, they even have colour and more than 33 MHz ;)
I don't think Palm is going all Windows Mobile, thus Treo 680. Also Palm PDAs will have the current lineup, until ALP (or Palm Linux-based OS?) is ready; announcing now the transition might have Osbourne-like consequenses.
|
Special Deals
|
PalmInfocenter.com is not affiliated with or endorsed by Palm Inc, Access or PalmSource in any way.
Any use of the word Palm is for discussion purposes and is a registered trademark of Palm Inc.
Unauthorized reproduction of content is strictly forbidden.
© MobileInfocenter.com, all rights reserved.
Palm m125 > Palm Zire 71 > Tapwave Zodiac 1 > Palm Zire 72 > Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000