Category: PDAs

  • palmOne Ships Zire 31

    Reading Time: 3 minutesEverybody and their brother in the gadget journalism business has reported that palmOne shipped the Zire 31 today. First a quick review of the features: 160×160 color display with contrast and brightness controls– supports thousands of colors, 200 MHz Intel ARM-based processor, Palm OS v5.2.8, 16 MB RAM (14 MB user accessible),…

  • palmOne Uses Zire Line to Attract Entry-level PDA Users

    Reading Time: 2 minutesBrighthand reports that palmOne sold three million Zire PDAs in less than 18 months. Many articles I’ve read say that this is a confirmation of the sub-branding strategy that was executed well before Palm acquired Handspring. I want to go back to an article written in 2002 about the original Palm Zire…

  • Hands High Offers Wireless File Access Software for PalmOS

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHands High Software has developed a $29.95 utility called WiFile that allows PalmOS users with wireless network support to access files on Windows, MacOS, and Samba-compatible file servers. WiFile makes use of the SMB/CIFS protocols to browse and manipulate shared directories. This is a nifty little utility that apparently began life…

  • Are Gadgets Shipped in the USA Inferior to Those Shipped Elsewhere?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFazal Majid asked an important question on Saturday in an entry on his weblog entitled Are Americans becoming second-class consumers? He cites several situations where manufacturers shipped products with the same name in two different markets, but the U.S. version had fewer features or lower quality components than the equivalent product…

  • $100 Instant Rebate Offered on Audible-Ready Portable Audio Players and PDAs

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com and Audible announced a $100 instant rebate on Audible-ready portable audio players and PDAs for buyers willing to join Audible’s AudibleListener program for 12 months. The AudibleListener programs are monthly subscriptions that allow customers to choose two programs from Audible’s collection of spoken word audio programming for a discounted price.…

  • Mobile RSS Tools Discussed by Daily Wireless

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDaily Wireless put together an excellent article about RSS use on mobile devices. The article includes a list of RSS aggregators for platforms from the PC and Macintosh all the way down to the iPod. [ via MobileWhack ] One suggestion that the author, Phillip Torreone, makes is Syndigator, a Perl-based…

  • Amazon.com Running a Good Sale on PDAs

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com is currently offering a $50 gift card with the purchase of a PDA valued at $299.99 or more. The offer expires on April 11, 2004. When you combine this with free shipping on all of these devices, it adds up to quite a good sale.

  • NewsFactor Review Says Hitachi G1000 is the Best Smartphone for Web Surfing

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMark Long of the NewsFactor Network compared four mobile phone/PDA combo devices with wireless internet capability and picked his favorite for wireless web use. The devices he compared are: the palmOne Tungsten W, the Siemens SX56, the Samsung SPH-i700, and the Hitachi G1000 on Sprint PCS. Mark’s criteria in this evaluation are…

  • What’s On People’s Treo 600’s

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJenny Levine of theShiftedLibrarian.com has published a list called What’s on My Treo 600 which lists the software and services that she typically uses on her Treo. This page has links to similar information on other’s websites as well: Albert Bodamer of Bodamer.com, the author of but she’s a girl…., (haven’t…