Hawkins Secret Project Due Next Year?

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.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

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

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.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

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!

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."

I think the Zune beat PALM to it.

JLM.

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

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!