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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (3197)	12/26/2000 4:21:01 PM
From: Harry J.	Respond to of 6784

"-- At the same event, Palm demonstrated devices working with . . . Bluetooth connectivity technologies. [snip] The first of these advanced Palm handheld devices is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2001." While I don't mind webclipping with my PALM VIIx, I've been less than looking forward to browsing on a handheld, let alone on a cellphone. Then, while doing some casual, personal due diligence on ARM Holdings (which I don't own), I ran across this posting at SI:ARM Holdings (#590): "By Junko Yoshida/EE Times (12/08/00 04:28 a.m. PST) Recent Articles [snip] SAN JOSE -- As chip and system vendors huddled over first-generation commercial products at this week's Bluetooth Developers Conference, researchers from IBM Corp. unveiled their long-term vision of how Bluetooth and other wireless technologies may transform users' involvement with computers. "We want to make computing experience more pervasive and graceful" using wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, said Dan Russell, a senior manager at IBM Almaden Research Center. IBM demonstrated a host of newly designed wireless device prototypes. They included . . . flip phones equipped with a special mirror and magnification optics to provide a full-size display. [snip] While IBM's prototype high-resolution watch uses a poly-silicon LCD, its flip phone with the projection mode feature uses an organic electroluminescent display, said [another engineer named] Karidis. "The power penalty of the polysilicon LCD was too large," he said. The flip phone with a one-inch display comes with a special mirror and magnification optics to project a full-size display for users. "The size of a display no longer becomes a limitation for consumers wanting to do Web browsing on their tiny phone," Karidis said. With a Bluetooth link, one can import to the flip phone information from a PC, and use the watch as a read-only-device." [end] Presumably, the slightly larger PALM would allow for slightly better resolution. The only (hahaha) question, then, is whether a PALM with its own wireless capability needs a PC and Bluetooth link thereto. Did anybody actually see the San Jose demonstration in early December? Regards, Harry