Palm to Drop Prices on Most Models

Palm did not cut the price of its m515 device, which remains at $399.

From Palm product marketing manager, Kenyon Scott:
"The 515 has shown to be incredibly popular, so we are not cutting its price"

HOW UGLY! Now I know the reason of price cut is they don't sell well in those modles.

Well, I'm glad to see the m515 is selling so well. And I'm sorry to hear that the S360 is selling so poorly. Sony recently cut the price on it and, according to you, the only reason companies cut prices is their products aren't selling.
And the T615C must have been a real flop because Sony cut it's price by a third.

Face it, prices get cut for all kinds of reasons, not just poor sales.

m125 owner

Of course, the Sony sales team will now post 100 irrelevant and anonymous rebuttals ...

If Palm releases an "m525" sometime between now and the end of the year, with OS 4.1, a 66 mhz dragonball, beefed-up battery, and an illuminated grafitti area, all at a price no higher than $350 or so, they'll have a winner on their hands. It would bridge the hahdheld generations nicely until the ARM models come down in price. None of these changes would cost a bundle to implent; all of the above improvements are already on the market and it would only be up to Palm to wrap them all up in one tidy unit.

(Having high-res in such a unit would be icing on the cake but that's just too much to ask from Palm and they've already explicatly stated they won't do high-res under OS4).

Basically Handspring looks like it's not gonna be around for long. That will leave 3 major players, Palm, Sony and HP. And the bottomline is that the Palm OS will remain very dominant over the PPC.

PPC sales are up mostly because of the new Crappaq and To****a handhelds with wireless capabitlities. These are converts from Palm who want this kind of technology but are too damn impatient (as all of us are) to wait for Palm to release their new OS 5 Handhelds.

Once the new devices come out Palm will look at higher sales, because this is probably the most anticipated moment in Palm history.

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Best Buy's upcoming Sunday flyer has the new prices effective already, and there is an additional BBuy (not Palm) $25 mail in rebate on ALL handhelds. So that brings the effective price of the m105 down to ~$75 and the SL10 Sony down to ~$125. Unbelievable deals, no matter which one you choose. It's a shame the m100 is still not floating around, because they you could probably end up with one of those for around $50 bucks--it's still adequate for many users' tasks. Makes you realize how grossly overpriced those TI calculators are during the "back to school" rush...