PalmPix for m100 Coming in December
Kodak has made good on the promise they made when the Palm m100 was released and has announced that a version of the PalmPix camera for the m100 will be available in mid-December. It will cost $100, significantly lower than the cost of the version for the III series. The PalmPix is a fixed-focus digital camera that lets users view photos on their Palms then transfer them to their Mac or Windows PC.
Amazon.com is now exclusively taking pre-orders for the PalmPix for the m100 with fulfillment in mid-December. It will also be available online from the Kodak store beginning in mid-December and at major computer retailers in early 2001.
The new PalmPix Camera weighs just 1.6 ounces without batteries. It features a fixed focus lens with a 36-inch to infinity focus range, 2X digital zoom and auto white balance. Until images are transferred to a computer, they are stored in the Palm handheld computer as VGA files requiring approximately 100K of memory per image.
An earlier version of the PalmPix Camera is compatible with the Palm III series, the Palm VII series, and the Palm V series with an adapter. It is also compatible with the IBM Workpad C-3.
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RE: hmmm....
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I'm wondering how useful this is going to be for the m100, though. As you said, bumping up to 8 MB seems like a very good idea. I have an axxPac for my IIIx so I'm not too worried about memory space.
I think Kodak is planning for the future. Palm has probably promised them that they will use the m100 form factor on future models so Kodak made a camera that they can, hopefully, continue to sell for a few years.
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RE: hmmm....
With 4megs of ram available, I'm able to take 19 high res (640x480) pictures. Not bad. I also suggest setting the sync to clear the pictures out of ram during HotSync.
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hmmm....
This looks cool.
100k a photo is going to add up fast, though. No real point on taking it on any trip longer than a day. Maybe I will send my M100 in and get it bumped up to 8 meg after all...
But then again, like most add-ons, I doubt it's a very good quality digital camera when compared to a stand-alone. I'm probably better off using my M100 for what it was intended for and putting the $100 towards a real digital camera.