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.