Category: PDAs
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H-P Releases Bluetooth Security Driver for iPAQ 1900 and 2200 Series Pocket PCs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHewlett-Packard has released a Bluetooth Security Driver for the iPAQ h1900 and 2200 series Pocket PCs, such as the H-P iPAQ 2215 on sale at Amazon.com. infoSync World says that the significance of this Bluetooth security upgrade is that it: …adds support for Combination Key pairing with other Bluetooth devices, which…
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How the PDA Market Came Down to Two Big Players
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrighthand published a very good retrospective of the PDA market describing everything from the early days of the Apple Newton to the recent announcement by Sony that it would withdraw its PDAs from the U.S. and European markets. This leaves the stand-alone PDA market with two major participants– palmOne and Hewlett-Packard.…
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Sony to Stop Selling Handhelds in U.S. and Europe
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCNET News.com reports that Sony intends to stop selling PDAs in the United States and Europe later this year as it re-evaluates its participation in the market. This is a large blow to PalmSource, the manufacturer of the PalmOS operating system, because Sony is the second largest seller of PalmOS devices.…
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Palm Tungsten C Provides Best WiFi Throughput in Tom’s Networking Test of PDAs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNeed a WiFi-enabled PDA? Tom’s Networking compared four popular WiFi-enabled models: the Dell Axim X3 Advanced and the HP IPAQ H2210 Pocket PC both of which require an SD WiFi card. The SanDisk Connect SD WiFi Card was the one used for the test. Two PDAs with built in WiFi were…
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HP Upgrades iPAQ h5400 and 5500 Series with Windows Mobile 2003 and WPA
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrighthand reports that Hewlett-Packard has released a WiFi driver update for the iPAQ 5400 and 5500 series PDAs. The new driver includes support for WiFi Protected Access, LEAP authentication, and Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX). These units also received an upgrade to Windows Mobile 2003. One question I had about this announcement…
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More About the iPAQ that NASA Chose for Use in Space
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week NASA announced that it had selected the HP iPAQ h5550 for use aboard its spacecraft and the International Space Station. According to a report on infoSync World, NASA chose this iPAQ because it was one of the few handhelds that could pass its flight certification tests with almost no modification.…
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Selected PalmOS PDAs on Sale at Amazon.com Through May 9
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com is running a sale on selected PalmOS PDAs through May 9, on a number of models from palmOne, Sony, and Garmin, including: palmOne Tungsten T3, palmOne Tungsten T2, palmOne Tungsten C, palmOne Tungsten E, palmOne Zire 21, Sony Clie PEG-UX50, Sony Clie PEG-TH55/U, Sony Clie PEG-TJ37/U, Sony Clie PEG-TJ27/U, and…
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Questionable Methodology Undermines Gartner PDA OS Study
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou’ve read the headline PalmOS and Microsoft Windows CE Neck and Neck in Sales, but the story behind the story is Gartner, Inc.’s questionable methodology. Does anyone other than the Gartner analyst think that you can get an accurate snapshot of the handheld OS market by excluding smartphones? Doing this gives…
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Zire 72 Ships from palmOne
Reading Time: 3 minutesHey– did you hear that palmOne shipped the Zire 72 today? Thought so. Here are the features, in case you didn’t actually read them: bright, 320×320 transflective TFT color display supports more than 65,000 colors, 312 MHz Intel PXA270 processor, Palm OS v5.2.8, 32 MB RAM (24 MB actual storage), integrated 1.2…