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To: Wigglesworth who wrote (14033)2/20/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: Dick Smith  Respond to of 45548
 
PalmPilot & Wireless Capacity

Wigglesworth pointed to a PCWeek article about wireless and the PalmPilot: zdnet.com

As for the article's suggestion that wireless network capacity is limited at the moment, I'd expect to see that clear up during this year for a couple of reasons:

1) Cellular growth is slowing, so providers are now considering data as worth bothering with.

2) Some of the wireless product coming available for PDAs including Pilot use data-only networks like Ardis and Mobitex/RAM. These networks haven't seen the growth that voice networks have, and are looking for customers.

Just my opinion, of course.

Dick



To: Wigglesworth who wrote (14033)2/20/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: nigel bates  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 45548
 
Any idea what it costs to produce the Palm Pilot?
- if they could market the thing at $150 they could shift maybe 20m units, rather than 1m, and they'd really have a platform then.

Nig


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