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

To: Crystal ball who wrote (4094)	3/8/2001 2:16:13 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6784

Excerpt from WSJ Mossberg's article: March 8, 2001 "Wireless Phone and Palm Are United in Smartphone" BY WALTER S. MOSSBERG DID YOU EVER FIND yourself trying to juggle a mobile phone and a Palm hand-held computer to look up phone numbers or consult your calendar while making a series of calls? It has happened to me, and at those awkward moments, I always wonder when there will be a single device that can smoothly combine a phone and a really good personal digital assistant, or PDA. Well, one such device hit the market this week. It's called the Kyocera Smartphone, and it's nothing less than a wireless phone with a genuine Palm PDA built right in. At first glance, it looks like a normal mobile phone. But you can flip down the hinged keypad to reveal a fully functional Palm, with all the familiar capabilities, icons and buttons. The Kyocera QCP 6035, as it's formally known, was introduced Monday by Verizon Wireless at $499. It's the latest entry in a high-stakes battle to merge the phone and the PDA. <....... about the phone .... .. . . > But the Palm inside is what makes the Smartphone special. Even if the phone is off, when you flip down the keypad, the Palm turns on. It has the familiar calendar, address book, memo pad and to-do list, all accessible from the usual four buttons at the bottom. THE PHONE'S CHARGING cradle hooks up to your PC and synchronizes with either Palm's own software, Microsoft Outlook, or a variety of other programs. You can also download and run any of the thousands of extra Palm programs. And you can exchange data with other Palms by beaming. The unit has a generous eight megabytes of memory. If you want to dial a number in your Palm address book, you just tap on the number and a dialing screen appears. Tap once more on a phone icon, and the call is placed. You can also access your Palm address-book numbers from the phone's screen, with the lid closed, by selecting the address book from the phone menu. Palm address-book entries can also be set up for speed dial or voice dial. While you're on a call, all the Palm functions are active, so you can look up other numbers or use your calendar. That's especially convenient if you're on the headset or speaker phone. Because of the Palm, this phone's Internet functionality is vastly better than the typical telephone's. Instead of a numbing series of Web menus, the Kyocera comes with a Web browser and a decent e-mail program that can access your existing Internet e-mail account, both from Eudora. It also sports a variety of Palm Web applications, like an E*Trade stock program and an American Airlines program to look up flights. You can download more of them. Accessing the Web is a simple matter of just launching any of these programs. Most Web connections are made quickly. So what are the downsides of the Kyocera Smartphone? Well, my biggest problem involves the screen. It's narrower than the screen on a Palm V, yet it displays the same number of lines and the same number of letters in a line. That means the standard font is smaller than on a regular Palm and can be hard to read, especially since the screen seems a bit dimmer than the Palm V's. To fix the problem, you can enlarge the font, but then you get fewer words on each line. Also, the Eudora browser, at present, doesn't support secure online transactions. All in all, however, the Kyocera Smartphone is the first really good PDA-equipped phone I've seen. If you long to merge your phone and your Palm, it may be just what you're looking for. interactive.wsj.com Mang

To: Crystal ball who wrote (4094)	3/8/2001 2:28:53 PM
From: FNS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6784

Crystal Ball: re: <<P.S. I am increasing my target price to $100 for PALM, yes that is correct, blow past the 70s highs to $100. >> and what is your TIMEFRAME? Yup, just saw last few seconds of Kyocera (CEO???) on CNBC...nice PR! Now let's see 25 in next week and maybe we can turn this baby up! Better still, let's shoot for 33! Didn't hear the whole thing....something about wireless/smartphone (CDMA) not supported in NJ??? Can you clarify? thx, fns

To: Crystal ball who wrote (4094)	3/8/2001 2:42:00 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Kyocera put PALM on the cellphone Kyocera bought themselves a whole lot of free publicity with that PalmPhone...I've seen it on CNN, CNBC, newspapers, WSJ...the two companies are making a nice buzz for themselves.