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

To: Daniel Joo who wrote (4775)	2/17/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Daniel and Thread, I purchased a recent copy of HandHeld PC magazine which is dedicated solely to the H/PC (hand held PC) user. Currently I do not own a H/PC, but am fascinated by the array of applications and the growing software libraries. It is astounding. The CF socket, in addition to PCMCIA type II sockets, are routine in this arena and are mulitpurpose. The notable exception to this is the Palm Pilot and the Palm III. These devices allow for the addition of such devices as Ethernet/LAN cards (and presumably RF LAN connections), IrDA adapters, serial and parallel I/O ports, peripherals (floppy, Clik! or other mobile drives), barcode scanning, paging (Motorola), standard 28.8 and 33.6 kbs fax/modem cards and wireless modems, GPS. One even allows for a digital camera attachment (Sharp Mobilon HC-4600). I suspect that there will be a shift from the bulkier PCMCIA II socket to either multiple CF slots or a combination of CF and CF II slots. Here are some interesting sites... GPS card peak-development.co.uk GPS software teletype.com Portable wireless modem shier.com I am very interested if anybody has seen the specs for the Palm VII yet. If this includes a CF slot it will be a huge boost for SNDK. The demand for CF cards in this "megamarket" could dwarf digital camera demand for CF. Most importantly, SmartMedia has no penetration into this market. Oh. I forgot. The PDA's also allow for removable memory upgrades to run the myriad of software titles that run the above devices. Ausdauer (Please read through these selected links and tell me that you are not excited about SNDK!!!)