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

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (3712)	2/7/2001 3:47:14 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6784

Mang: The Ericsson R380 EPOC based phone sells for $600 retail, available as an upgrade only as of now, and no telco subsidy. Not exactly a good price point to sell millions of the devices to consumers, so for the well-heeled or business-subsidized only it would seem. Kyocera's CDMA based Palm OS phone is pretty pricey as well, around $500 if I recall correctly. If they want to sell tons of these things to the mass market, they're going to have to find a way to splice the cell phone functions cheaply onto a M-100 style PDA, otherwise they will remain a "capitalist tool". But maybe that's the idea? David T.