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To: John Curtis who wrote (19892)	5/30/2000 11:22:00 AM
From: P. Ramamoorthy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

An emerging PDA market for VLNC batteries. Ram ******* "Microsoft moves to challenge Palm cbs.marketwatch.com But an evaluation of one of the models, Hewlett-Packard's (HWP: news, msgs) Jornada 545, indicated Palm Inc. might have something to fear. For an appliance the size of a TV remote, the $499 Jornada can do an amazing range of things. Through a desktop computer, users can transfer word processing documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, maps, Web pages and books to the Jornada, and read them later on the color screen. It even takes digital music in the MP3 format that can be listened to with stereo headphones. The Palms can do some of those things with add-on software, but the Jornada does them out of the box thanks to the operating system, which really does make this feel like a PC for the pocket. The Pocket PC interface is easy to grasp since it borrows the look of Windows. There are hardware buttons for basic organizer functions, and activating and switching between applications is slightly easier than on the Palms. ... The Jornada also has an even niftier way of taking input: a built-in audio recorder, which works like a digital Dictaphone. Recorded sound is stored as files in memory. With all these features, it's a wonder Microsoft doesn't offer more choices when it comes to e-mail. .... The 9-ounce Jornada is a bit heavy to be a comfortable fit in a shirt or trousers pocket. The $449 Palm IIIc is 2 ounces lighter -- a big difference. Also, the color screen of the Palm IIIc is crisp and sharp in sunlight, where the Jornada's screen is dark and hard to read. True, the Palm's screen is smaller and can only show 256 different colors at a time, which makes some photographs look a bit grainy. ... The Jornada is not bad for the corporate user who needs to do spreadsheets on the fly -- or someone who wants an organizer that also plays MP3 files. But Microsoft may have to look to coming handhelds from Compaq and Casio for a platform that can make the Pocket PC a hit." *****