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

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (3716)	2/7/2001 4:05:49 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 6784

But maybe that's the idea? Nah, you're absolutely right, it's just going to take another 12-18 months for the technology - both design and manufacturing - to catch up. Phones like the Nokia 8290/8890 and Ericsson T28W (fabulous phones, all) have gotten about as small as a handheld device can get and still remain usable. The NOKs are already web-enabled, and the upcoming (just released?) T29W will be as well. They already play games, do IM...it's "just" a matter of Engineered Squeezing to get PIM functionality in there. And not this Xmas, but the one after we'll all be buying these things for $99 at the Verizon kiosk in the mall, LOL.

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (3716)	2/7/2001 4:22:54 PM
From: lkj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

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? Hi David, I disagree with you. I think $500 is a sweet spot for a smart/phone, iff it's a Palm-based device. A CE-based device would have worked if it could give better battery life, but that's not going to happen. $500 is not much more than the price on the Palm VII, and this device has a phone integrated in it, and for future upgradability, this phone supports IS95B for 64kbps, which will be used when Spring upgrades to 1X/CDMA, which is backward compatible to IS95B. So this will be a Palm/cell phone that can function well for at least 18 months, which is more than what most mobile computer users are asking. Regards, Khan P.S. There has been little talk about BREW on this thread, which I think is relavent to us. Anyone want to get it started?