Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2001 2:32:07 PM PST
by Ed
PocketSensei has released
SilverScreen 2.1, an update to their application launcher. It now supports VFS expansion cards. Both the Palm m500 series and all Clié models will be able to access applications stored on expansion cards. All Clié models will be able to launch applications directly from Memory Sticks without having to wait for OS 4.0. All users will be able to categorize applications. SilverScreen 2.1 is available now for $20.
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:23:22 AM PST
by Ed
It seems likely that Sony is developing an updated version of the N710C that will be called the N760C. So far there are no indications that it will have any ground-breaking new features, simply being the N710C with OS 4.0 pre-installed. This will give its hi-res screen 16-bit color, rather than the N710C's 8-bit color.
A listing for the N760C appeared briefly last week on rcseshop, a webstore. No details on the handheld were given before it was removed.
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:40:57 AM PST
by Ed
Electric Pocket has released new versions of BugMe! and BugMe! Messenger that include
Comic Notes,
a series of humorous message packs that feature popular comic strip characters such as Garfield, Bizarro, Cathy, and Ziggy.
Comic Notes is the first of a series of BugMe! NotePack stationery templates which let users enhance their handwritten reminder notes and messages with pre-printed images.
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:08:16 AM PST
by As Listed
Penguin Books is going to release many of their titles as eBooks, including fiction, science writing, business titles and a full range of Penguin Classics and reference books They will be in the Adobe Acrobat format. -Ed
PAWGO has introduced a Null Modem Adapter for Palm III series products. It will allow users to easily attach a 9 pin (DB-9) cell phone data cable to a Palm III for easy access to the Web, email, SMS, fax, etc. They sell for $15. There is a V series version in the works. -Todd Lawson
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:04:44 AM PST
by Ed
In an interview with
ComputerWorld, Michael Mace, Palm's chief competitive officer, said he doesn't see the upcoming release of of the next version of the PocketPC OS as much of a threat.
"This sounds like an incremental release of their product, and it's a lot of stuff you can do today in a Palm handheld," he said. "We already have support for 802.xx, and our OS is so simple, our developers don't need a wizard."
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:49:10 AM PST
by Ed
Palm continues to strongly support Bluetooth, a short-range wireless protocol, over its rival, 802.11b. Yesterday, they demonstrated how a Palm handheld and Bluetooth card could wirelessly connect to a wireless phone, corporate LAN, and printer.
However, they are aware that Bluetooth has been over-sold and has under-delivered. For at least three years, Bluetooth's backers have promised that "next year" is the year Bluetooth will catch on. This might finally be the year. A good number of Bluetooth-related items are going to hit the market in the next six months but the slowing U.S. economy is almost certainly going to hurt sales of these.
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:17:36 AM PST
by Snubolis
Cases are one of the most frequently used handheld peripherals. First time reviewer Snubolis brings us his thoughts on the the Palm m500 Leather Zippered Case, which is stylish and provides a measure of protection.
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:05:21 AM PST
by As Listed
The Landware
Floating Point Stylus for the m500 series is finally available. It costs $14 for a limited time. -Ed
This month marks MemoWare's fifth anniversary. They host nearly 10 thousand locally stored PDA-friendly documents, all free for downloading, neatly categorized, and searchable. -Craig Froehle
Posted Monday, August 20, 2001 12:43:28 PM PST
by Ed
Unless a spokesperson for Handspring was willing to flat out lie through his teeth, Handspring will not be announcing any new handheld models today, as was previously rumored. In an e-mail exchange on Handspring's recent price cuts, Brian Jaquet, a company spokesperson, said, "Sorry to disappoint you, but that is all that is being announced today."
Posted Monday, August 20, 2001 7:09:04 AM PST
by As Listed
infoSync is reporting a rumor that Steve Sakoman, formerly the COO of Be Inc., is a top contender to replace Alan Kessler as head of the operating system group at Palm. Mr. Sakoman has also worked at Apple, where he was the director of CPU development managing the hardware group. -Ed
HandEra has provided a fix for NTT DocoMo and IBM Microdrive cards in the Compact Flash slot. This fix is not needed for other CF cards. -Mike Barney
Posted Sunday, August 19, 2001 2:07:47 PM PST
by Jay
One of the mostly widely used Palm applications is AvantGo, which stores content from the Internet onto user's handhelds. Depending on how many channels are subscribed to, this can take up a large amount of RAM and AvantGo has not yet been re-written to allow it to store its data files on an expansion card.
However, PowerRUN has an undocumented feature that allows AvantGo's databases to be stored on external cards.
Posted Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:45:57 AM PST
by Ed
Like the previous one, the the top stories last week were all rumors. Some pictures of the not yet announced
m125 were released, there was talk of
Handspring announcing two new models, and we gave a sneak peak at two future Palm
wireless handhelds.
The biggest hard news story of the week was the announcement that Palm was buying Be Inc. On the same day came news that the man at Palm responsible for the Palm OS was resigning. Handspring ended the week by dropping prices on almost all its handhelds.
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