Palm IIIc Price Drops to Compete with Prism
Palm is expected to announce today that they will be dropping the price of its color Palm IIIc to $329 from $399. This is a clear attempt to keep buyers interested in its color device, now that Handspring has released the Prism. The Prism offers over 65 thousand colors while the IIIc can display only 256, but with this price drop the IIIc now costs $120 less.
Both devices run OS 3.5 and have the same screen resolution, 160x160. Both have rechargeable batteries that promise 6 hours of continuous use. The Prism is slightly heavier, 6.9 oz verses 6.8 oz., and slightly larger, 4.8" x 3.0" x 0.8" (11.52 cu.in.), verses 5.06" x 3.17" x .67" (10.74 cu.in.).
Palm will also announce a promotion that offers free peripherals with the purchase of a IIIc, including three color styli, a luggage tag, and a CD containing some games, an ebook reader, a drawing program and reminder functions. It should run through January 8.
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RE: Fact check anyone?
But I don't know where you checked but my handy Palm calculator continues to insist that $499 - $329 = $170.
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RE: Fact check anyone?
RE: Fact check anyone?
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RE: Fact check anyone?
RE: Fact check anyone?
compatibility
Still has the same shit-ass 160x160 pixel display...
Though I'm a hardcore Palm OS fan, the fact remains that the screen on Casio’s PPCs will make this puppy look like it's playing in the sandbox. Maybe-hopefully-possibly-
The Enforcer
It suddenly got a lot harder to chose
RE: It suddenly got a lot harder to chose
Avantgo
anyway i am going to keep preaching and begging for some one to port over a palm OS to the IPAQ. there is a link ( http://www.conduits.com/ce/apps/copilot.asp ), ( http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/8604/Beta/PilotCE/ ). they are aimed at Win Ce, *actually upon closer examination, they look like the same thing*. the ultimate (for me) would be an IPAQ running Palm OS, ported to 320*260 screen. then life would be phat..
till then, i will pray that the Palm Vc will be a step in the right direction
-Raishe
"Moster Pig kills Jesus
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RE: It suddenly got a lot harder to chose
65 thousand colors not possible
Matt
RE: 65 thousand colors not possible
Anyway, the screen looks beautiful. :-) There's kind of a 3-d effect to icons, etc.
RE: 65 thousand colors not possible
just to update, the palette is 16 bit, that is - it defines colors in a 5,6,5 manner - 5 bits for red, 6 bits for green and 5 bits for blue (this is hardware dependent). the operating system uses a "direct color" scenario, where you define the a pixel as a series of red, green and blue values.
16 bit = 2^16-1 colors.. thats 65536 unique colors.
the screen may be 160x160, which means at any one time, there can only be 25600 unique colors on the screen (changes of this, very small) :P the 16 bit color idea is such that you have a wider range of colors to choose from.
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
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why
you at palm must be on vacation. Why (ipaq and prism)
After 5 continuous years of support and thousands of dollars on mutiple palm units...
I am writting this on a ipaq... but i would die for a Vc...WHY...
simplicity or complacency
ebooks?
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Fact check anyone?
I think you mean 65,538 colors.
"but with this price drop the IIIc now costs $170 less."
Last time I checked, $449 minus $329 was $120, not $170.