Hitachi has announced a line of MMC cards ranging in size from 16 MB to 128 MB. The smaller cards can transfer data at 1 MB/sec while the 64 MB and 128 MB cards have a transfer speed of 2 MB/sec. No prices were released. -Ed

Cambridge Silicon Radio, the leading supplier of Bluetooth chips, said that it expects to have have chips on sale below $5 by 2003. They currently cost between $8 and $10. The $5 mark is the point where many analysts have predicted Bluetooth will really begin to catch on. -Ed

The not yet announced Sony PEG-N760C has appeared on the State Street Direct webstore. As has been rumored, it is essentially a N710C except with Palm OS 4.1 instead of Palm OS 3.5. This means its screen can display 16-bit color.

The State Street Direct page lists the N760C at $500, the same price as the N710C. According to it, the handheld will be available to U.S. residents only on October 5.

As expected, Handspring introduced the Visor Pro and Neo today. (Read more about them in this previous article.) It also announced that the eyemodule2 digital camera has been added to its product line. This Springboard will be sold under the Handspring name for $200. The eyemodule2 provides full VGA imaging capabilities and mini-movies.

New accessories introduced today include a Visor belt clip holster, a stylus three-pack, and a number of new cases from InCase Designs that hold Visors and Springboard modules.

This week will be long remembered not for anything to do with handhelds but for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. There is a good conversation thread about this in the Forums, too. But what the terrorists want is to disrupt our way of life so one of the best things we can do is carry on.

Details on the Handspring Visor Pro and Neo were announced, while Sony had a busy week, including demoing some new prototype Memory Stick I/O peripherals, they made their first official mention of a Palm OS 4.1 upgrade, they released details on the MP3 player, and even announced the N750C for the Japanese market.

Handspring has donated 500 Visor Deluxes and VisorPhones to the Red Cross and New York Police and Fire Departments to help them coordinate their efforts to help the victims and find survivors in the WTC attacks, according to Visor Central. VoiceStream is donating GSM wireless service for the phones.

They are responding to a plea from the Red Cross for technology donations. Handspring and other companies came through and the Red Cross now has everything they requested.

Breakout is one of the classic video games and it continues to live on in many variations on its original theme. Earlier this week, Red-Mercury announced an updated version of their Breakout clone, Atom Smash. Perpetual gamer Pepper says it looks great and gives its main rival, Ababall, a run for its money.

Handspring is going to announce on Monday two new Visor models. The Visor Pro is a mid-range model and will be the first ever to ship with 16 MB of RAM. It will cost $300. The Visor Neo is a low-end model that will have 8 MB of RAM and come in three possible casing colors. It will be $200.

Both of these new handhelds have monochrome screens, run the 33 MHz Dragonball VZ processor, and have regular Springboard slots.

Targus will soon be offering a version of the ThumbPad, a small clip-on keyboard for the Palm V series that lets the user type with their thumbs. It will begin shipping at the end of this month, though the company is taking pre-orders now. It will cost $40.

Targus also said that this fall it will be announcing versions for other Palm series, the Sony Clié, the Visor, and more.

According to PDA Geek, Palm has begin to ship the m125 to its distributors as part of the process of having it in retail stores soon. The site, quoting unnamed and contradictory sources, now says the m125 will be available either September 29 or October 4. -Ed

Mark/Space has released The Missing Sync 2.0 which now allows the Sony N610C and N710C to display the Memory Stick as a removable drive on the Macintosh desktop. It allows all currently shipping Clié models to HotSync on a Mac and costs $30. -Ed

Sony has released new pictures and details of prototype digital camera and GPS Memory Stick peripherals. The descriptions are in Japanese but some facts can be gleaned. Details are still sketchy, though. It is known that these are working prototypes, not just non-functional mockups.

Sony has not yet disclosed what these will cost though it says they will be available within a year.

Update: Note: Not all the information in this article turned out to be correct. Sony released the GPS module in Japan in November. The digital camera is available now in the U.S.

People who have Sony S series models or who regret not springing for the N710C when they bought a N610C will be pleased to hear that Sony has officially announced the PEGA-SA500 MP3 Audio Adapter, which adds MP3 playback to these models.

It will be available in Japan on September 22. This item began to appear on U.S. online webstores last week though it isn't expected to be available in the U.S. until the end of this month. Prices range from about $115 to $130.