Week in Review: Oct. 7 - Oct. 13
The week started off with a report on the unauthorized OS 4.1 upgrade some Sony N710C owners had performed. Other big stories included Palm's CEO's presentation at the shareholders' meeting and the report spelling out the Palm OS's continued domination of retail sales.
From the rumors department can a report that Palm would be releasing a hi-res handheld before OS 5 comes out and that Handspring is planning on releasing the Treo line of smartphones on Monday.
New applications announced this week include Anagram, PDA Defense, and Quickstart. In hardware news, check out the PowerCradle and HandEra will be supporting an 802.11b CF card.
In the forums, there's a poll on the pirated N710C upgrade and another on possible future Palm-branded handhelds. And lots of other stuff, too.
In the Marketplace, almost every type of handheld you can think of is for sale, including a Sony N760C, a Palm m500, V, and Vx, a Visor Deluxe, and tons more.
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RE: The week also had more annoying posts from HandEra fanatics
Late 2001 - Toshiba, Compaq, and Casio (I think) release handhelds that have both SD/MMC support and CF support.
Maybe Handera is not the Devil... Maybe they put out a quality product with innovative features... Maybe other handhelp companies are following their lead?
Leave the nice Handera people alone.
Doug
(A satisfied Visor Prism owner who has never seen a real Handera, but thinks they are probably swell)
RE: The week also had more annoying posts from HandEra fanatics
TRG/HandEra has always been an innovative company that unfortunately doesn't have a clue how to market their products. I bought one of the first TRGPros and continue to use this daily.
A few of their innovative features:
- Running programs seamlessly (without dely) from CompactFlash.
- Easily upgradeable OS (unfortunately their recent OS releases have been very buggy).
- Back up programs to unused FlashRAM (with FlashPack)
- Run programs from unused FlashRAM (with FlashPro)
The HandEra 330 introduced a higher resolution (but monochrome) display, collapsible Soft Graffiti screen, extra SD slot (deferring to Palm, rather than using another - superior - CompactFlash slot), voice recorder (of limited use for most people) and optional removeable lithium battery.
Unfortunately, they kept the same big Palm III-sized case (while good for maintaining compatibility with older accessories, small size is probably more important for most Palm owners), designed an unattractive shell, started having quality control problems (now resolved?), ignored the industry's move to color sreens, continued their marketing ineptitude (they even appear to have now lost their only non-mail order retailer), and have had problems fixing the bugs introduced by the added complexity of the OS.
HandEra is a good company with good products and solid engineering. I'm just not sure they have what it takes to successfully sell a PDA in 2001. I wish Sony or Palm would just buy HandEra and add their best features into a new PDA.
You switched the Forum links around.
Did anyone go to the Palm shareholder meeting?
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The week also had more annoying posts from HandEra fanatics
And perhaps other flamers here can accept the fact that just become some posters mention PocketPC doesn't mean that they are trolls. Now back to our regularly sceduled program...