Lighter, Smaller Palm V on the Way
CNet has a video interview with Palm CEO Carl Yankowski in which he discusses, among other things, what to expect from Palm next year. He mentions that in the first half of the year Palm will release a smaller, lighter Palm V, with color and black and white versions. The new Palm V will also incorporate the SD expansion slot announced last June.
In the second half of the year, there will be devices from Palm that can do instant messenging, instant e-mail, and voice.
He finished by saying, "Ultimately, we hope you can have your drivers licence, your passport, your IDs, etc. right in your Palm and then obviously e-wallet after that. It's a pretty compelling ten year vision."
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RE: E-wallet, huh?
RE: E-wallet, huh?
People have been complaining that Palm was resting on it's laurels, when actually they've been quietly making stuff we are going to want.
Second: The whole "E-Wallet" thing is a long range plan. Think, if all Palms have wireless, secure connections, carrying your driver's licence etc. as well as access to "cyber" cash could work. Just think. 10 years ago the Palm was a dream, now there are millions of people using them every day for more things than we could have imagined. Is the "E-Wallet" really so impossible?
RE: E-wallet, huh?
> not amazing to you?
Smaller? -- I don't really want a smaller screen (even if the overall resolution stays the same, a la the M100) so shrinking the height and width by anything appreciable is pretty much out. That only leaves thickness, and if it is any thinner than my Vx I would be afraid of cracking it in half when I write on it.
Lighter? -- My Vx already weighs almost nothing. I don't think I'd even notice the change if it were any lighter. No value add there.
Color? -- I have yet to see a single Palm app that made having color support worth the burden it places on memory and power consumption. (The one possible exception that I would consider are photo album apps that can display in color, although hardly what I would call wildly useful.) Many of the user interfaces out there are bad enough in black and white; throw poor use of color into the mix and you have an even bigger mess.
Expansion Slot? -- This is definitely a good idea, although I could think of some better media choices than an SD slot.
My point is that it seems that now that the ground breaking is pretty much done, Palm is starting to go to extremes just for the sake of being there, rather than considering what would really be an "advance." Do you really hear people complaining about how big and bulky the V form factor is?
If I had to prioritize the four features above I would pretty much just go back up the list in reverse order, with color ranking a distant second to the expansion slot, and the top two barely placing at all.
- Porter
RE: Price
Smaller Color Palm V, yes yes yes yes Please
Screen Size ?
I like the Palm but I am getting frustrated with the limitations of a 160x160 screen, color or not. I can only hope that they pissoff the grafiti area and give us more screen real estate with new models.
RE: Screen Size ?
Actually, many apps are written to minimize typing. Why don't palm gives up the permanant graffiti area and free up more screen space? Writing area can still exist but it can be hidden until being called up (like the keyboard) upon some special tapping.
This is one of the item in my wish list of future palm. Can this message reach the manufacturers?
RE: Screen Size ?
Another form factor?!?!?!
RE: Another form factor?!?!?!
one other thing; the rolley thing on the sony clie is amazing. can't they incorporate it into their models too?
Color, SD Expansion? YES!! Smaller? Why??
OK. I WILL TAKE TWO '
now if they can thron in a 16mb SD
that would just be icinq on the cake
E-wallet, come and gone
RE: E-wallet, come and gone
Money are one of the things I would want to see disappear - physically, I mean. They are only for exchange anyway. Another thing I'd like to see go away is the paper books and newspapers. Do you guys ever consider how many trees need to be cut only so that you throw them away in the moment you see the ads in your mailbox?
Like it or not, it will happen. eWallet is not only good for us, it is doomed to happen.
Great!
RE: Great!
-Andrew
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Upgrade on USB!!
RE: Upgrade on USB!!
Improve it don't re-design it
Sounds like...
If at first you don't succeed with colour try again, you to can make an idiot of yourself twice.
RE: Improve it don't re-design it
It is hard to improve on perfection.
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E-wallet, huh?
I'm as much of a techno-gadget freak as anyone, but even some things still seem a little too much like watching the Jetsons. Haven't seen those dog-walking hover treadmills yet...
On a more serious note, do we really need this? The original Pilots succeeded because they met simple needs with simple solutions. It seems to me that maybe the folks at Palm really are starting to forget that, and are shooting for "cool products" without thinking concretely about consumers' needs.
- Porter