Palm LifeDrive in Short Supply?

A hacksaw and all the parts are already in the bin down at the warehouse. While your at it, call up Intel (or whoever it is now) and buy all their unused 624 procs for pennies on the buck to power it. They've probably got enough in mothballs to go in the 2,500 PDAs Palm could sell in 07'.

While your at it, just stick the cheesy MP3 hardware from the Z72 and the SD slot, into the Z22, mold it in camo, hot pink, white, RockyTop Orange, and Hello Kitty color schemes. Sell it for $99 as a iPod killer with a $10 off gift certificate for backstock SD cards and earbuds from the P1 store.

Wind it down while thickin' the plating on the execs golden chutes for 08'.

That's my forecast.

Pat Horne

Oh great, dueling Palm branded office junk in the eBay liquidation sale. Only Palm could spend more money keeping their logos more up to date than their OS.

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

I've got an old Palm branded lip protector click case (like chapstick, but in a small can). I can't even remember where I got it from. Should I take it to the antiques roadshow? :-)

I'm still waiting for the mythical color HandEra.
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Obvious? To me, it sounds like a company that is going out of business.

Harold

Specifically he 'wished Apple good luck' and welcomed their entrance into the fray.

There was a thread in response to an earlier post on PIC about this interview, and one of the comments provides a link to the entire interview, which lasts less than an hour. For the Palm devotee, it's an interesting listen to.

Harold

Not doubting you, just wondering...

Does anyone know when the next media event/show might possibly be where Palm could announce a new handheld?

Palm's not always stuck to the traditional Spring/Fall release patterns, especially in the last year or so in regards to new Treos.

The 700w launched in January 2006. The i705 came out in January of 2002. Then the T|T2, which was just a refreshed T|T, came out in the middle of the summer, July of 2003 I believe.

I could actually see Palm redoing their whole release cycle and doing "non-core" products (ie PDAs or TNGT) in the winter or early fall, then smartphones in early summer or late fall (like the 680).

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

And if you say "Buy now" a completely blank web page comes up.

Is there any doubt?

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In other news, I personally think the 700P, 700W, and 700WX are EOL, too.

Watch them earnings calls and PR-fluffs!

http://channelsource.palm.com/regac/salestools/ViewDocument?app=chsrc&docId=495

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Nothing yet.

When is Palm's anniversary?

http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/lifedrive-notes-behold-it-is-it/

That has been obvious since the Q was released. Even PALM management acknowledged it...repeatedly, e.g.:

== "...This was the result of slower-than-expected retail sell-through
== to consumers as lower-priced competing products were introduced
== to the marketplace..."

and

== "...Obviously as we went into the fiscal year, we anticipated additional
== competition. One of the things we had anticipated is that those competitors
== would actually grow the market. What we have seen is they really have not
== grown the market as much as we had anticipated..."

and more recently:

== "...I think what we saw there at the end of last quarter was probably
== more related to the competitive onslaught that was happening at the time
== and our ability relative to the different carriers promoting various
== solutions..."