Hawkins Secret Project Due Next Year?
Michael Mace is reporting on his blog that Ed Colligan has confirmed that Jeff Hawkins "secret project" will debut sometime next year.
Late last year Hawkins revealed that he has been working on a secretive third business at Palm involving the next major generation of mobile computing. Mace also states that "I know a number of very bright people at Palm moved to work on it, more than a year ago."
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My guess?
Basically, think of it as Palm's version of the iPod phone w/o voice and with the emphasis on PIM and video functionality instead of voice and music. The LifeDrive meets the Nokia 770 meets the iPhone? Perhaps.
It'll probably marketed to a niche, early-adopter type audience under a separate marketing banner (sorts like how Vertu is to Nokia but w/o the huge price difference). Maybe $600ish?
The OS? Either, in a huge leap of imagination, ALP, or simply WinMob. Either way it'll be Palm's (assuming they are still an independent entity this time next year) final stab at doing something other than rehashing the Treo ad nauseum. If this thing does ever appear on store shelves, I expect it to be a much more "serious" effort than the penny-pinching LifeDrive debacle.
All of this is, of course, just sheer speculation on my part. I personally doubt we'll actually see this device given Palm's conservative, Treo-centric worldview of late.
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RE: My guess?
Palm m125 > Palm Zire 71 > Tapwave Zodiac 1 > Palm Zire 72 > Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000
RE: My guess?
The new landscape-oriented HP iPaq 4000 & 5915(especially the 5915 with its 2gb flash memory & GPS that Adama recently reviewed for BH) are probably the closest current PDA-style unit to Hawkins' project...either those or whatever 770 replacement Nokia has in the works.
Whatever it is, I expect Hawkins to make his unit much more PIM-focused than the Mylo/Nokia 770/iPaqs mentioned above.
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RE: My guess?
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8551/palms-open-secrets-exposed/
Or perhaps a new kind of wheat-thresher? Everyone loves a wheat thresher.
Tim
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Treo 270 ---> Treo 650
RE: My guess?
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RE: My guess?
Good call...I never thought of it in terms of the backend revenut potential for Palm...instead, the only "back" association I've associated with Palm as of late is the, battered, ahem, "backdoors" of the paying beta testers who have had to endure the T5, Treo 650, 700p and the LifeDrive.
Are you thinking about something along the lines of Slingbox on steroids?
Palm's history so far with service-oriented ventures is quite patchy---look at the palm.net/Palm VII/i705 debacle and PeanutPress/E-Reader.
And Palm took a stab at the retail software market a few years back--the "PalmPak" pre-loaded expansion cards were sold for what was likely pennies on the dollar to MobileDigitalMedia who were in turn acquired by Filao.
The HUGE question in all of this is...what role (if any) will the cellular carriers play in Palm/Hawkins' new project? And wouldn't Hawkins want his new service venture to somehow have a proprietary hardware platform to run on? At worst, a "dead" Palm VII/i705/T|W/Treo with no wireless service account is still a darn good PDA. If Hawkins doesn't play his cards right then he might end up with the pocket equivalent of WebTV.
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new project?
new rumor
apparently, Palm has huge stake with Acess to the backdoor, which it is willing to give up for software to Johnson controlls
if the meeting at the backdoor goes well. the next meeting, is at bed bath and beyond.
thats what she said!
Numenta-Palm-enstein
"all this time as an entrepreneur I was working part-time. The other part of my time was on neuroscience and I had a lot of friends in the neuroscience community.”
If each neuron is like a cpu, then a network of computers is like a brain. Maybe the "secret project" is a handheld that uses wifi to connect to other handhelds nearby to share content. Oops, I guess Zune beat him to it!
RE: Numenta-Palm-enstein
seems like a really neat idea, like the downloadable software where you donate cpu cycles to a worldwide project.....to figure out calculations even super computers cant do, one of the most mysterious things is the human brain........
what if it was a really basic internet connected palm, that used a central host super computer to do all its calculations, so it was incredibly lightweight, used very little battery, etc....
thats what she said!
RE: Numenta-Palm-enstein
Jeff Hawkins has been dropping infuriating hints about upcoming products of a secret "third business" at Palm, which are the implication of "a world where everyone has a super high-speed Internet connection in their pocket and many gigabytes of storage, super-fast processors, audio, visual and multimedia."
Tim
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Treo 270 ---> Treo 650
As earthshaking as the Segway?
Better Make Me shoot Fire
Far as I'm concerned, I don't think palm can afford a "miss" with this new product.
Vote for John Kerry... best man for the job.
BS
RE: BS
JLM.
The REAL question . . .
BTW I still think the lifedrive was its forerunner.
Color Handera?
I can't wait.
RE: Color Handera?
Don't be greedy!
I'll bet it's a LifeDrive with a 6 GB (YES, SIX GB!) hard drive and Palm's super-cool Black Tie Edition "paint". The crowds are gonna go CRAZY for this one!
TVoR
if its
thats what she said!
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Hawkins' secret: a Treble Wireless Tablet PalmPC
The_Voice_of_Reason @ 8/5/2005 11:30:53 PM #
Treble Wireless Tablet PalmPC:
1) Take a CLIE TH55 and double the size.
2) VGA screen.
3) Include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (all profiles) and (finally!) cellphone radio with speakerphone.
4) Integrated stand on back of device, Bluetooth keyboard, host USB, 40 GB HD.
The big mystery is why Palm hasn't the WTP yet. The parts are all easily available.
TVoR/Nostradamus, Inc.™
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Since it's now over 1 year late, add an 80 GB hard drive, streaming media and thin client software (with Palm doing much of the heavy lifting). Palm would be wise to buy bandwidth from a carrier (say, Sprint) and include the data service as part of the package. Add Palm-controlled music, video and software stores and pray that this revenue model isn't a mirage in the desert Palm currently finds itself.
A heavily customized version of Windows Mobile with an integrated StyleTap Platform (which a wise Palm would soon purchase) simplifies Palm's OS headaches immensely.
TVoR
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let users connect to their own computer media, files, cpu cycles, at home over wifi, evdo, etc.
and other device users.
voice recognition, and include what a 750 or tx would have......and sdio and
products like on sdio.org
add tivo. add a sirius satelite attenna.......
thats what she said!
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