Visor Pro Now $250

I'd certainly spend the addition $50 or so for a Clie N610. (But at the same time, avoid the T415.)

"it appears that Sony constantly resets the price point lower than HS and Palm."

They are a HUGE company, and can afford to undercut others. I just hope their Customer Service in the US improves before I *really* need them, because right now they suck. - rs

Perhaps I'm being short-sighted, or maybe even selfish, but if Sony is using their deep pockets to undercut everybody else, and perhaps driving them out of business, I just can't see a problem with that.

I personally like being able to spend under $200 on a great PDA that has everything I want.

People are saying that tactics like this drive the true innovaters out of business, but I know I sure don't want to be paying $300 for a 2mb PDA with no special features whatsoever. Sure, there may have been a supremely feature-rich innovative PDA out there, but it would probably have been close to $1000.

That's the difference of Asia and America, in Asia they actually sell stuff according to the cost of production. In US they sell stuff according to some imaginery supply and demad curve. Which is, we'll over price our stuff till no one buys it anymore.

Well is the competition is eliminated, what is to stop the "predatator" from raising the prices? With no competition a company can charge anything they want....look at Microsoft.

Asian companies are known for "dumping" products for costs lower than what it cost to make them so they can corner the market and then raise prices when their competitors go out of business. This is illegal. I'm not saying this is what Sony is doing but those of you who seem to think that Sony and other asian companies are some miracle of capitalism are seriously deluding yourself.

Even at Sony's lower prices, I don't think they are dumping. Sony's lower prices with more features makes you wonder just how low Palm could go with their prices, doesn't it?

If Palm goes to where they aren't making any profit, they go out of business.

I worry me that Sony might drive prices for PDAs down to where no-one can make a profit from them, then drop out. Their plan may be to sell cheap to increase their market share. If this doesn't work, they give up, only after hurting Palm and Handspring to where they can't survive. We'll be left with only $600 PPCs as an option.

LoL, you are so funny, you are telling me that they decrease the price to gain market is illegal !? .....

There are so many example of US company over charging for everything, Harddrive, Ram, Monitor, LCD .... etc Each and every product starts to drop price when some Taiwan company steps in and start making it. Why ? because they sell it at a reasonable price. Do you think windows will be successful is Ram price is as high as 10 years ago ? that was like $100 per MB or Ram, now ?? 0.1 Dollar or less for a MB of ram. So did they drive the price so low that they killed all competition ?? hell no, they forced their competitors to lower their price what they could do pretty easily.

As for you worrying Sony will kill palm and Handspring, if they could be so easily killed, then they deserve to die.

I'm pretty sure it's already available. I played with one for a friend who ordered it when it was first available, buthe was ona waiting list I thought. But, it should be out.

It's been out since last Summer. You can read my review here:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2123

---
News Editor

Ed, I live in Canada, I've been trying for the last 2 weeks to find one.... UNAVAILABLE... Anywhere. It's still listed in most of the place, but they cannot get it.

"Even amazon.com send me this email:
Message:
Greetings from Amazon.com.
We've recently learned from our supplier that the item you requested to be
notified about, Kodak PalmPix camera for Palm m500 series handhelds, will
not be available in the foreseeable future.
It's possible that someone may be selling this item through Amazon.com
Auctions or zShops. We encourage you to search for it there if you're
still interested in purchasing this item."

There is none listed on Ebay. Can you check with your contact at Kodak what's happening ??

S.

Hmmm... that's very interesting. Could be Kodak has discontinued it due to the awful reviews it got. I just saw CompUSA dump a bunch of III-series PalmPix at something like $20 just to get rid of them. And I haven't seen any m5xx-series PalmPix in stores for quite a while in NYC.

> Can you check with your contact at Kodak what's happening ??

I sent an email off. I'll let you know when/if they respond.

---
News Editor

I already have one. Bought seven in Amazon for a client of mine. It is very small and light. It works like a charm, soft very intuitive. The only thing I miss is a flash. But it takes beautiful pictures in direct sunlight, sometimes it´s difficult to use the screen as a viewfinder.

Thanks for all the information.It looks like
it is not available. And even it is available, it is
not good.

We are working on a project that needs a camera on Palm
that take portrait images.
The amount is over 10k. I am wondering if there is any
camera manufacturers are interested in making such
a camera for us. Just the hardware, we can take care
of the software ourself.

Any information will be appreciated.