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Palm's sales had languished during March and April after the company announced the m500 series long before it was shipping, which greatly reduced demand for their models that were available. May was the first month that the m500 series was shipping in large numbers.
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RE: Palm Sales Had a Major Comeback in May
Palm IS dying.
RE: Palm Sales Had a Major Comeback in May
Oh no! My bloved Palm is gone . . .
RE: Palm Sales Had a Major Comeback in May
RE: Palm Sales Had a Major Comeback in May
The reason is simple. That's right; simplicity is the key to palm. It is compact, well built, efficient in organizing my life, tons of medical software and other software to play with, and even though the screen could have been brighter I'm happy with the trade off for the battery life (I leave the side-lights on most of the times unless I have enough direct light).
I look forward to the next generation of Palms that will take advantage of the higher resolution screen, longer battery life even witha brighter color screen, even better portability with internet accessability, and continual growth of many applications that makes my life simple.
Sam
Sales numbers
>According to NPD Intelect, sales of Palm-branded devices accounted for almost 70% of the handhelds sold in stores in May, up almost 8% from the previous month.
RE: Sales numbers
The PPC products are not high in popularity, especially in corporate settings.
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mondo
Sydney, Australia
RE: Sales numbers
Good news for Palm and the community
It's nice to see a little good news coming from Palm. Although it was fairly predicatable that the M505 would kick their sales figures way up.
The interesting results will come when Sony has its models out and Handspring launches the rumoured 66 megahertz Visor Snap that was reported due out last week.
This announcement certainly puts the correct light on ill founded poorly conducted studies prepared by "experts" suggesting that WinCe (well Compaq in this instance) had outsold Palm and that the Palm platform was not adopted by enterprises. (I work for the world's largest news and information company in the world and Palm is supported here)
Anyway that's my £0.02 worth, and hey look, I think i am the first to post too..
RE: Good news for Palm and the community
(|)
RE: Good news for Palm and the community
I don't think taking those into account will amount to a difference of more than a few points in the totals though.
Take care,
terry
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RE: Good news for Palm and the community
[ No Subject ]
Keep up the good work Palm!
m505 for size
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Palms problem these days is that they are playing catch-up and not leading the field. Most of the innovations on the M505 for example were pioneered by others:
The 33 mhz processer was used by Handspring, as was 8 bit colour. Sony innovated the autorun of programmes stored on external memory, Sony, Handera and Handspring all examined alternative expansion media.
Unfortunately these companies have pressed further ahead with increased screen resolution, better audio, and (rumoured) introduction of a 66 mhz processor.
As previous posters have pointed out, Palm is in no position to sit on its arse and expect the new M500 series to be cash cows in the way the V series was. They need to get out and innovate and bring something new to the market or the company will fail. (and likely be snapped up by Apple IBM or Sony).
To survive, Palm will have to incorporate all the new ideas coming along and then add something. They can do wireless, and indeed a year or 2 ago or so predicted every machine they produced would be wireless by about now. (I don't class I/R as wireless!).
Regards
Nick Trevethan
Devon
UK
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b: new wireless device to be out this autumn. And, as many sales people know, all future models after (and including) that one will have integrated wireless
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"Palms problem these days is that they are playing catch-up and not leading the field. Most of the innovations on the M505 for example were pioneered by others:"
Oh and didnt Microsoft pioneer such techniques?
Very sucessfully I might add
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--GrouchoMarx
PALM IS DEAD!
RE: PALM IS DEAD!
1) Those saying that Palm is dying have not considered that if Palm dies so does Handspring, Hand Era, and the Clie. Palm is the one providing the OS to these companies.
2) And to those saying that Handspring and Handera are going to kill Palm. Palm is earning money from every handheld that Handspring and Handera sell (Palm is licensing the Palm OS to them). If Palm wants to kill Handspring they only have to stop licensing the OS to them.
RE: PALM IS DEAD!
"So, tell me Senator....
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-Raishe
"Monster Pig kills Jesus
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Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
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Companies desiring a stable, small color, expandable, fast device.
Individuals seeking a widely-supported, solidly put together machine, that's in color and made by Palm
Who would buy that Clie?
Not Companies-No alarm function, combined with the unproffesinal mp3 player makes it a no-no, even with the res.
Individuals who want a cutting edge high-res screen, with multimedia features.
Do these target markets collide? No. Clie sales, even if they turn out to be great, are never going to blot out Palm sales. By the way, returns are tracked in the product sales, and frankly, they aren't mentioned because their not real. I'm sure the number of returned Clie's is close to the number of m505's. People aren't returning them in droves, it's just an urban legend.
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RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
One major difference between how Sony and HandEra handle their higher resolutions is Sony does it in hardware, HandEra does it in software. That means old apps are almost guaranteed to not break on the CLIE, even those that don't play by the rules and draw directly to hardware. The HandEra breaks on a few apps (less than 5% of the apps out there, I think, and mostly games), but gives the added resolution boost to almost all apps, because buttons are translated into their newer, high-res, crisper versions before anything is sent to the hardware. So you get more mileage out of legacy apps that use the Palm API on the 330, but more support for cutting edge direct-to-hardware stuff on the CLIE.
--GrouchoMarx
RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
The M505 was sold.
How many "youngsters or teenages" can afford to drop 600+ dollars on a Clie 710c and a 64mb stick, anyway?
RE: Business use for Sony 710c
Off the soapbox, there is a business use for the 710C's MP3 player. Audible.com sells books and magazines in MP3 format. You can get up to an hour of audio into a 2 MB file. You can subscribe to the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and a bunch of others, all read to you.
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RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
I agree with you. The ones who critisize Clie 710C as a "toy" are just jealous. They don't have other things to critisize Clie except for the slight thickness and MP3. The most stupid comment I heard is that
"Nobody can bring a ear phone to a meeting room", that is so stupid, you don't have to bring the ear phone to meeting room, the ear phone comes with Clie is seperated, you can just take it off and bring the
deivce itself!!
As far as I can see, Clie is much more useful than m505 as a business tool due to the brightness and
much higher resolution, these two things making the reading, writing very easy!
As for teeanage can get a toy which cost $600, that one is also nonesense. As far as I can tell, the PDA buyers are mostly adult! I haven't seen a kid playing with PDA even a cheapest one but I have seen many playing Gameboy (I live in a above average community)
RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
How does the alarm work on the Clie?
RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
I've also bought an average of $1000 of accesories for each. Don't tell me we don't have money.
-Pepper
RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
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So what the M505 has vibrating alarm and lights.
And what kinda moronic statement is:
""There's no vibration or external speaker, so do you have to have the headphones on to hear it?"""
If you think that's true, then tell me how the alarm works for the Palm IIIxe, IIIc, Vx, m100, m105, Visor, Visor Deluxe, Visor prism, VIIx, Visor edge? huh?
The Clie Alarm uses the normal piezo speaker like the rest of the palms. (and uh if you have headphones attached to the Clie, the alarm will sound on the headphones too)
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-Pepper
RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
not for me atleast. Why always get the new stuf for a LOT of money? why not wait until it gets cheaper and buy it then?
i still use the (exellent) IIIx. (but a thought crossed my mind... maybe i should buy a new one if they were cheaper.... hmmmm...)
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Roy
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Roy
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ex. I just convinced my parent's employee's daughter she wants a palm. and guess which one she wants? It doesn't mean her dad will buy her that one, but if she pays for 1/2 he probably will.
but I currently use 2 palms, and a s***-load of accessories. Yeah, i'm broke now, but I could still sell my stuff off and get something new.
-Pepper
RE: Lets wait and see the report of the quarter
Actually no. The Clie uses the same small speaker (or buzzer) for the Alarm. The audio is for music playback. So it is a big plus to have audio function whenever you need it, and you don't need to bring earphone with you all the time.
RE: PALM IS DEAD!
:-)
RE: RE: PALM IS DEAD!
What's more, you so-called "prophets" (i.e., Sony-lovers) were kicking Palm when it was down. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
PLEASE let this be the end of the "My PDA is better than your PDA" bulls**t! Sony's got a nice PDA; so does Palm. And Palm, it appears, is still quite viable.
m505
RE: m505
1) Coporate and powere users WILL NOT by the clie (have your earphone on in a meeting/your office, i think not)
2)no matter how much people knock palm, you just gotta love the form factor of the Vx,
3)most coporate users (like me) would rather carry a discreet Vx than an Ipaq that i have to tap 4 or more times to enter a simple appointment.
4)I don't see my company buying 500 ipaqs, palm is very good to us on volume sales (even on the M505). you'd be surprised how much cheaper it is when you buy 500 M505's compared to 500 ipaqs (i would know, we did it).
Bottom line, palm's going to be here for a while, watch out for OS 5 and screen improvements, then you'd have a killer pda in your hands!!
RE: Cost of iPaq
I know that Handspring has a similiar adapter for their thin model, but I think any adapter is lousy due to extra cost but mostly convienience.
RE: m505
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?prodzip=&product_code=282080
Palm Guy's love Palm
Were happy.
Palm Guy
Whew!
I'm Glad!
Just some more confirmation
Palm stock value
Palm's product tops the lines. Anyway, why would you want to spend $800 on a Pocket PC when you can get a laptop for just $200 more?
Once the economy recovers, I know Palm's situation will improve.
Palm is here to stay!
Lower price of M500
Palm price, and more
If I were you, I would much prefer to stay away from the PC based Pocket PC, as Microsoft software seems to be more crash-prone.
Palm's going to win the handheld war, and everyone should know that.
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