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To: Dennis V. who wrote (6797)	1/6/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: kolo55	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27311

Palm to use Li-poly This is great news for Li-poly. I love this news. Every market for Li-poly batteries is growing 25% or more, and landing 3Com's Palm business gives a huge inroad to the PDA segment. This should insure a 50+% market share for Li-poly in this segment by next year. Furthermore, market penetrations of 20-30% in cellphones and notebooks seem more reasonable by next year. If Li-poly has such an advantage for PDAs, I guess the notebook/cellphone OEMs also see the obvious advantages of Li-poly. Paul

To: Dennis V. who wrote (6797)	1/6/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: John Curtis	Respond to of 27311

Dennis: Thanks for the URL. For the benefit of "posterity" here's the information in it's entirety: --------- New Palm PDA could be ‘V' April or May debut for organizer formerly known as the Pilot The next version of 3Com Corp.'s market-leading handheld personal organizer, likely to be called the Palm V, will be twice as thin and have an improved display. During its two-year life it has been known as a Pilot, a PalmPilot and now just a Palm. ALTHOUGH THE NAME isn't final, Neville Street, European General Manager of 3Com's Palm Computing division, said: "It's the most likely candidate." The product will launch in Europe before the Palm VII — already announced — which remains a U.S.-only project until later in 1999. The Palm V is not expected to debut at CeBIT in Hannover in March; instead, Street predicted an April or May launch. Street reckoned the device would use lithium-ion polymer batteries, which are flexible and would allow the device to shrink to half the thickness of the Palm III because they become part of the casing. He added that the screen will be improved because of a new film overlay that reduces reflection. The Palm V will cost around $500. Street also admitted that Palm Computing had a branding problem with the Palm name: During its two-year life it has been known as a Pilot, a PalmPilot and now just a Palm. "There's a whole project going on to sort out our branding," he said. ---------- That's it. Now I'm not one to hype, much(heh), but I will say this "jives" somewhat with underground rumors. IF these are accurate then me thinks life is gonna get VERY interesting around the 'ol Valence plant, eh? Let's see how it plays out..... Regards! John~

To: Dennis V. who wrote (6797)	1/7/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Jeff S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27311

Since this board is so open and supportive of other people's views, (gg) I thought I would throw my 2 cents in RE: the Palm "V". The article states that the product is for Europe, and quotes the European GM, Street. If the design process was in Europe for this product, than jumping to Ireland to check on the battery's progress would be a lot more bearable than going from California. (Even if the design precess wasn't in Europe, since it is their "baby" they would be a lot more inclined to check on the battery production than if the premier of the product was in the US.) Maybe 3Com decided to premier this product in Europe in case there were problems with the battery. OK, let me have it. My prediction; 2 posts RE: my post, one for, one con, both dealing with constructive information. 4 posts applauding me as an insightful genius and a great contributor to this board. 3 posts calling me an optimistic ignoramous, pointing out many errors and telling me to go to the Yahoo board. Last observation, the only thing worse than being a long VLNC is being a short AMZN, (which I want to be, but am not yet)!