Comments on: Palm Handheld Sales Surpass 20 Million Mark.

Hmmmm I've helped them out over the years by buying:

Palm Pilot Pro, IIIe (got it used), Vx, m505, Tungsten T. My all time favorite nostalgia-wise is the original Pilot Pro. I had the Vx for the longest and the m505 was probably the most disappointing/frustrating. T|T is definitely getting used the most, because I finally have a truly "bright" screen and SD card access times are not as aggrivatingly slow as they were in the 505.

Palm shoulda had an E-bay auction with a fancy looking T|T (or whatever was the 20 millionth one actually manufactured).

As a side note, does anyone know is the m1xx and m5xx series are still in actual production or is Palm just trying to sell off the remaining inventory?

Yup, that's right (technically). I actually had no idea it was called the m550 until I read an online review of the day before I bought my own...and I was still skeptical of Palm adhering to the mxxx moniker until I slid mine down and looked on the back. But I think that people will usually just associate the m500, 505 and 515 as the m5xx series, since the Tungsten T has very little in common with those units.

I wonder if the now legendary Palm V/m500 formfactor has been put to permanent rest by Palm?

mine are:

1. PalmPilot Pro (US Robotics)
2. Palm III (3Com)
3. Palm IIIx
4. Palm IIIxe
5. Palm V
6. Palm Vx
7. Palm m505

and the latest (hopefully the longest) :-)
8. Palm m550 (Tungsten T)

No oldtimers here? I started with a Pilot 5000 (plus later a 512k upgrade)
PalmPilot Pro
Palm III
Palm V
Palm Vx
Palm m550 (TT)

But I also use a Sony T615C, and somehow ended up
with a Symbol SPT1500, SPT1700, Visor and clear prototype Palm VII.

Well my list is kind of crazy...

1. IIIe - used, worked great after a new screen.
2. IIIc - new, but had a crazy digitizer.
3. IIIc - replacement, but had bad pixels.
4. IIIc - replacement. Worked flawlessly, blinding screen and solid 14Hr battery life. Accessories disappeared from the shelves and GPS never saw daylight.
5. M505 - New. Worked great until Charging problem and SUDS.
6. M105 - New for the wife. Returned for upgrade.
7. M500 - upgrade from M105. Returned for upgrade.
8. M505 - upgrade from M500 which my wife could not read in class, but this unit was returned due to dim screen.
9. M505 - replacement for above, but this unit was the perfect M505. She still has it and won't give it up.
10. M505 - refurbished replacement for my own M505.
11. M505 - refurbished replacement for my own M505.
12. M505 - refurbished replacement for my own M505.
13. M505 - refurbished replacement for my own M505.
14. M515 - New after getting sick of defective refurbished M505's. Am I forgiving or what? But the M515 was a real-world workhorse which now has even the metal finish worn smooth in places, though it still runs like the day I brought it home and the battery life still rocks.
15. M105 for my 12 year old. Has been kicked, dropped, thrown, wedged, rolled down stairs, and crushed so bad that the case split open. Still works fine.
16. M100 for my 8 year old. No, I did NOT get him the NR he wanted!

One figure is for handhelds running PalmOS, one for handhelds sold by Palm Inc. Try reading past the headline.

20 million, Palm alone? That be a lot of units.

-Davy Fields
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Palm_OS_5/

I'd wager that the Palm V/Vx take up a pretty nice chunk of those numbers, as well as the m1xx series.

Overall, and this is nothing more than a hunch, I'd wager that the Vx has been the all-time single best-selling model in Palm's history. I mean, it lasted through 2 or 3 generations of box packaging redesigns ;-)