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To: Daniel who wrote (4357)	3/21/2001 6:00:41 PM
From: Sawtooth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Thanks to DAM via Qcom thread: Smartphone a Hot Seller in S.F. Wired News Report 12:45 p.m. Mar. 21, 2001 PST Kyocera's newly released personal digital assistant smartphone is sold out in San Francisco. Retailers are apparently unable to keep up with the demand for Kyocera's QCP 6035 -- a converged PDA smartphone that runs on the Palm operating system -- since its release three weeks ago. The phones are being heavily promoted in the San Francisco Chronicle among other San Francisco venues. Verizon Wireless, the only carrier that offers service for the phone, denies there's a shortage. But its retail stores on Daniel Burnham Park and Pine Street in San Francisco have been waiting a week for a new shipment of the phones. "Keep on checking with us," said a customer service representative from the Pine Street store. "It's the best we can do." The store does not have a waiting list and is offering the phones on a first come, first served basis, the Pine Street retailer said. Retailers from both locations said they receive about three phones per week as a test run. They are unsure when they will get more phones. "There is no supply and demand issue," said Joe Lawyer, director of information services and CDMA (code-division multiple access) products for Verizon Wireless. "They're available anywhere we have digital services." Lawyer said he was under a "non-disclosure agreement" and could not specify how many phones are available nationwide. However, analysts, the media and users have given the phone rave reviews. The phone sells for $500 with a one-year Verizon Wireless plan that costs $30 to initiate and $44 a month in San Francisco. Verizon Wireless also plans to offer users a myriad of mobile phone services, including all the content and messaging capabilities available through Yahoo -- a partnership which was announced at this week's CTIA trade show in Las Vegas. wired.com

To: Daniel who wrote (4357)	3/21/2001 8:46:44 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6784

Daniel: 4086 colors on the iPAQ? You're right of course, should be 4096 colors, and I know better. Typo by me? Nope, copied from Compaq's website without thinking: athome.compaq.com Handspring, of course, had the brains to correct Compaq's error: handspring.com I'll confess I'm not sure why Compaq is using an 8 bit/4096 color screen, when they have the horsepower and OS to drive 16 bit/65,536 colors, unless they opted to use that horsepower to drive the higher 240x320 resolution. But who cares? From the user point of view, the only thing that matters is how the screen looks under different lighting conditions. For the m505, we'll just have to wait until people get their hands on some. Anybody seen any reviews yet? David T.