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To: Mang Cheng who wrote (2172)	10/16/2000 7:57:25 AM
From: P.M.Freedman	Respond to of 6784

Hand is rolling out Visor Prism, a color-screen model that extends its popular electronic organizer line. The 16-bit, $449 Visor Prism was claimed as the best on the market, capable of producing more than 65,000 colors. nytimes.com It looks like that the holiday sales of PDA are getting hotter. We should see more new products from different makers on the markets. Has anyone tried SONY's palm?

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (2172)	10/16/2000 8:04:09 AM
From: P.M.Freedman	Respond to of 6784

The new products from HAND feature a 33-megahertz processor from Motorola, said Michelle White, a Handspring product manager nytimes.com

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (2172)	10/16/2000 12:21:40 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Respond to of 6784

Mang: From the SJ Mercury article you posted: Analysts say the Prism -- primed for multimedia with its 16-bit, 65,536 color display -- is about as much as the Palm operating system, a 16-bit/32-bit hybrid OS, can handle... Just last week, executives from Palm met with Palm OS licensee Sony Corp. to talk about how the Palm platform will support multimedia in the future. All of the new devices Palm plans to introduce next year will have 16-bit color, said Palm Chief Technology Officer Bill Maggs. ``We're going to come out with a lot of applications that are targeted specifically toward color,'' he said. ``We're not going to run away from it at all.'' Beyond just color though, Maggs said the Palm operating system will get two significant updates next year, allowing Palm devices to better handle heavy-duty tasks like wireless networking, audio and video. The operating system updates will happen at about the time when Palm switches to Intel's more powerful ARM processor. After the updates, the operating system will ``push information around just as fast as CE or anything else out there,'' Maggs said. Pretty much the developments and timetable we've been talking about here. I hope it's all early next year to keep the momentum going. David T.