Rumor: Palm to Release Clip-On Battery Charger
Regular readers may remember that Palm accidentally posted a picture of the m500 on its site several days before the official launch. Palm may once again made this type of slip-up by posting on its webstore an ad for the BattPac, a portable recharger that isn't yet available. The device appears to clip on the the bottom of the handheld like a sled. Interestingly, the Palm in the ad is a V series, not the just released m500 series.
The ad appears here, on the bottom of the page about expansion cards, though someone may soon notice it and have it removed. Clicking on the ad opens a page that says, "This Product is not in the Catalog".
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Thanks to Spartacus for the tip. -Ed
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Found it..
found it at http://www.i-vox.com Click on syncharger.
mike
mike
RE: Seen at CeBit
The guy you talked to is Paddy (paddytan@shinei.com.sg).
I remembered clearly that 2 weeks ago, someone also mentioned about this syncharger/battpac. And it is no more
been carried by Landware. And that the original manufacturer is Shinei International (As shown in Cebit) and not Landware.
Some hearsay from http://www.spug.org that apparently Landware was the exclusive distributor but was kicked out by Shinei
due to its poor quality of Landware's line of product like govox(digital voice recorder) and battpac(known as syncharger too).
Shinei is also the same company that is doing the long-waited mp3 player for Palm 100x, that supports SD cards too. But it seems like
it is gonna launched soon. (Hope so....)
Also on the site, the clipmodem is gonna be launched in April. Anyone see those modem around?
RE: Seen at CeBit
from A/C directly. HOwever, with my elephant fingers I broke the AA battery door of the charger.
I saw Paddy at the Singapore Palm m500/505 Launch few weeks ago and told him (and his boss?)
about this. Immediately he and the colleague or boss gave me a new battery door to replace mine. Cool!
Already out for the Palm V
This is probably just a reconfigured BattPac to support the Universal connector.
Now tell me when is the HandEra shipping?
;-P
RE: Already out for the Palm V
http://www.i-vox.com/
Landware acts as a U.S. distributor for several other Shinei products.
Glad to hear they will be releasing an m500 series version, though I wish it were a tad cheaper.
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RE: Already out for the Palm V
RE: Already out for the Palm V
He is going to have one for the 50x as soome as the connectors are available.
scouter075@mindspring.com
I've seen this before!
RE: I've seen this before!
old news
I am using it SyncPac
2 AA batteres provides around 3 charges, and the charging rate appears to be faster than the Emergency Charger.
Overall, the SyncPac works as advertise out of a strealine form factor. But personally I feel it is a little bulky for travelling.
Francis Lo
Francis Lo
Hong Kong
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Seen at CeBit
I think it's made by the same guys who have the Palm V midi do-hickey on the Palm site.
mike
mike