hamsammich

Very interesting, indeed. Does this mean that the T|5 might be the last PDA-only device from PalmOne?

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Peppy

Why would you say that? All those posts talked about PalmSource and their plans. Remember, PalmSource makes the OS. They didn't talk about PalmOne, the hardware maker. Or did I miss something?

hamsammich

To me, they go hand in hand. If PalmSource focuses on the converged phone/PDA device, then PalmOne will most certainly follow.
Now, I hope I'm wrong, but I can just envision that happening.
I'm just waiting for P1 to surprise me next week.

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I guess I feel this is a bit of the tail wagging the dog. These may be separate companies now but we shouldn't fool ourselves about who is calling the shots. Look at the relative revenues of the two arms of Palm and you can see that P1 is a giant next to PS. It is also almost certain that P1 is PS's most important customer by leaps and bounds. My money is on P1 dictating PS's direction to a very large degree, not the other way around.

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PalmOne to launch 'big RAM' Tungsten next week
By Tony Smith (tony.smith at theregister.co.uk)
Published Tuesday 28th September 2004 08:55 GMT

PalmOne is set to cut the prices of its current PDA line-up next month as it gears up for the Holiday sales period and the release of its latest Tungsten handheld, The Register has learned.

Reliable sources familiar with the company's plans suggest that the new Tungsten's launch could come as early as next Monday.

The new machine is expected to be dubbed the Tungsten T5, skipping past the T4 moniker to avoid offending buyers in nations for whom the number four is held to be bad karma.

Past leaks, if accurate, have pointed to a machine with a 520MHz Intel XScale PXA270 CPU and 128MB of memory. Comments from people claiming to have seen the device suggest the new machine contains 256MB of memory, possible some or all of which is Flash, in order to preserve data after hard resets. It has also been claimed that part or all of the device's memory can be mounted on a host computer's desktop as a removable storage device.

Interestingly, that's a feature that was many years ago suggested as an option Apple and (then) Palm were working on for early versions of Mac OS X. In the end, Apple developed iSync. More recently, PalmSource - as the OS developer is now called - said it would no longer support synchronisation with the Mac OS.

But back to the T5, and our sources strongly suggest that PalmOne will be talking up the PDA's memory configuration at launch. That suggests to us that the 256MB figure.

Like the current top-end Tungsten T3, the T5 is said to feature a 320 x 480 display (switchable between landscape and portrait views) but this time minus the slider that has become a key feature of the Tungsten T line-up since the first model shipped almost two years ago.

Like past Tungstens, the T5 is expected to include Bluetooth support, and possibly Wi-Fi too, if some past speculation proves correct. The latter could be provided by bundling PalmOne's new Wi-Fi SD card.

PalmOne is also known to be working on a successor to the Treo 600 smart phone, but it is not believed that the so-called Treo 650 - aka 'Ace' - will be launched next week.

Sources close to PalmOne confirmed a number of upcoming PDA price cuts, but were unable to provide further details. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/0...gten_t5_launch/

LexLuther

Thanks Gekko but nothing new there is there? Flash, no slider, bundled wifi card etc. At least there will be a discount on current models.

Gekko

it's just an additional confirmation. please people don't make me spell everything out with every friggin post. you're killing me.