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Technology Stocks : Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ausdauer who wrote (45)	9/11/2000 11:17:13 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 817

Do you have any thoughts as to what OS's are best suited for a hybrid PDA/cellphone device? Whatever dominates in the future will have to be able to run well on very inexpensive hardware because the mass-market will always be price sensitive. And that makes a "Windows Everywhere" MS the best friend PALM could have. What's the current status in the PDA battle? A 32MB multi-hundred MHz PocketPC is in a fight with a 2MB, 16MHz Palm. Palm wins going away; smaller, cheaper, more reliable. A few bucks in component costs is a big deal when you're selling $49.99 handsets. If, if, if...if MS had done something from scratch for PocketPC instead of this bastardized version of Windows I think this story would be looking a lot different right now.