Posted Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:50:53 PM PST
by Ed
One of the most persistant rumors in the handheld industry, almost as long-running as the one that Apple is going to release another handheld, is that Palm and Handspring are working on a merger.
Unstrung is fanning the rumor fires this time, quoting an unnamed industry watcher who says Credit Suisse First Boston is trying to bring about a merger of the two handheld companies. However, Handspring's CEO Donna Dubinsky is resisting the idea because she doesn't want to work for a large company where she won't be in control.
Posted Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:10:38 PM PST
by Ed
A wide variety of accessories for several different handheld models have been announced in the past couple of weeks, including a modem, a hard case, and some others.
Portsmith has developed a cradle that acts as a modem and can also charge a handheld's battery. The company hasn't announced yet what the modem speed will be. It works with models that use Palm's Universal Connector but the company is working on versions for other models, too. It will be available later this month from iGo for $150.
Posted Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:41:10 AM PST
by As Listed
I-O Data has announced 256MB and 512MB SD memory cards. These should be available in August. Pricing has not yet been announced. -Many
Mobile Wizadry has chosen the finalists for the PalmOS Demo Programming Competition. These were designed to show off the technical and artistic skills of their developers and are available for download. Voting for the winners is open to the public. -Aaron Ardiri
Posted Tuesday, July 9, 2002 11:07:42 AM PST
by Ed
When Palm was trying to decide what direction to take its next-generation operating system, it first considered basing it on Symbian and later on Linux, according to
The Register.
In 1999, Palm made plans to rewrite the Palm OS to be based on the Symbian OS but Palm's Board of Directors was opposed to the idea so the deal fell apart. Next, the company strongly considered basing it on Linux. However, the company's lawyers weren't happy about basing a proprietry operating system on one that is open-source so that plan was dropped in favor of developing one from the ground up.
Posted Tuesday, July 9, 2002 9:37:46 AM PST
by Ed
The FCC has given Handspring permission to offer the Treo 300, the not yet announced smartphone which will use Sprint's 3G wireless network. The FCC has also posted some
information about the 300 on its site.
This info confirms much of what was already rumored about the Treo 300, including that it uses the same 12-bit color screen as the Treo 270 and 90. It is expected to be available in the next month or so, at about the same time Sprint rolls out its 3G wireless network.
Posted Monday, July 8, 2002 12:40:50 PM PST
by Ed
Mergic has released
Mergic VPN 1.0, a virtual private network client that allows users with Internet access to securely connect to a private network, such as their home or corporate LAN. It is the
first VPN client for the Palm platform to support the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), which is supported by more servers than any other VPN protocol. Mergic VPN is now available for $30.
Posted Monday, July 8, 2002 11:59:58 AM PST
by As Listed
Several readers have reported finding the Sony
T665C in stores. It is also available through SonyStyle. -Ed
Brando is now offering the PEGA-MSG1 Memory Stick GPS for $210 US. It appears that everything is in Japanese, unlike the Bluetooth Memory Stick which has English drivers. -Ryan Humes
Posted Wednesday, July 3, 2002 10:08:51 AM PST
by Ryan
ETS Inc., a provider of handheld products and services, has released da Vinci, The Data Architect for the Palm OS platform. da Vinci is a database designer and code generation tool, designed for use with Metrowerks CodeWarrior™ Development Tools for Palm OS, Version 8.
da Vinci allows a development team to reduce the complexity and accelerate the completion of data-driven applications by providing a interface for the design of Palm OS databases and generating code that a developer would otherwise need to write manually in a time consuming process.
Posted Tuesday, July 2, 2002 10:21:08 AM PST
by As Listed
The July 2002 issue of the PalmTipsheet is now
online. -Mike Rohde
Launcher X has missed the late June release date previously announced, however the developers have added new screen shots of Launcher X on their website. -Many
The Visor Prism is now listed as "No Longer Available" on Handspring's Web Site. -Doug
Posted Monday, July 1, 2002 9:58:50 AM PST
by Ryan
Late last month, Handspring announced a new addition to its lineup, the Treo 90. Despite being part of Treo line, it isn't a smartphone. Instead, it is a mid-range handheld with a color screen, an SD/MMC slot, 16 MB of RAM, and Palm OS 4.1. News Editor Ed Hardy brings us this in-depth review.
Posted Friday, June 28, 2002 8:05:31 AM PST
by Ed
Don't miss VisorCentral's
PC Expo 2002 Report with pictures and videos of new products from the expo part of TechXNY. -Ed
Nicolet Biomedical has introduced SNAP, a single-channel EEG monitoring tool built into a Springboard module. It allows the Visor to track anesthesia's effect on brain activity and display it in a time-based trend. SNAP has been cleared to market by the FDA, with commercial shipments expected to begin in July. -PR
Posted Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:48:21 AM PST
by Ed
The
Motorola Dragonball MX1 is the first microprocessor certified by PalmSource to work with the just released Palm OS 5. This means that any licensee can easily use this processor at the heart of a handheld that runs the new operating system. The DragonBall MX1 is an ARM core-based microprocessor which offers speeds up to 200 MHz.
Certification of the processors of the Palm OS Ready Program members couldn't happen until the final version of Palm OS 5 was available, which wasn't until earlier this month. There should be similar announcements coming from the other chip makers in the near future.
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