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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tumbleweed who wrote (19763)	3/21/2001 5:53:26 PM
From: Tumbleweed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Palm/Sandisk Interesting to see mention of Sandisk in the following from comp.sys.palmtops.pilot. +++ Under the lights at FOSE (here in Washington, D.C.) the m505 color screen is a bit dark and colors were tough to distinguish. Also, having used an IPAQ for several months, I could immediately detect poor backlighting (or sidelighting or whatever) and the obvious presence of boxy pixels on the screen. After testing the m505, I picked up a Palm Vx and boy was the display superior in low light! Pinpoint sharp, easy to read, a bit green, but, hey, easy on the eyes altogether. Apparently one of the salesfolk had hijacked the m500, so I could not compare its screen with the Vx. I will say that the SD slot is fascinating. When they say postage stamp, they kid not. These tiny cards are wafer thin, light as a feather, and literally postage stamp size (albeit an oversized postage stamp). The m505 I was testing had an 8MB sandisk loaded and I noticed a 64mb card lying on the counter. Tap the card info app and after a slight delay, card stats are loaded. All in all, I wouldn't shell out for the new m505, maybe the m500 if the screen meets or exceeds the Vx. Neither model gives true plug-and-play like Handspring and since one can't run programs DIRECTLY from the SD card, I view this as an emerging technology. Cheers, /Steelkilt