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Palm IIIc, IIIxe Released
homerj79 writes, "Palm Computing announced today the release of their next generation Palm's, the IIIc and IIIxe. The IIIc sports 8MB of RAM, PalmOS 3.5 and a very cool 256-color TFT display. The Palm also has a built in rechargable battery that supposedly lasts for two weeks between charges. The IIIxe is much like the IIIx, but doubles the RAM to 8MB. Both also have a new casing on them, with a dark slate colored case rather than the gray of the past. "
I don't think you understand their reasoning.
256 colour is more than enough for what I believe their intentions are. Hell 16 colour would have sufficed in my situation.
I use a Palm to store data, keep notes, etc. The colour can be used to highlight, annotate or otherwise bring attention to parts of the information contained without requiring mucking up the display by adding underlines or making the text bigger. Just change the colour to red and your eye instantly goes towards it first.
Want 24-bit colour with alpha, 3D accelleration, 3D surround sound and enough balls to play MP3s? Get a laptop. This isn't meant to replace them. It's meant to be portable and useful.
According to the PDF's...
Palm IIIxe = 4.7" x 3.2" x 0.7", 6.0 oz.
Palm IIIc = 5.06" x 3.17" x 0.67", 6.8 oz.
...so, the color model is *slightly* narrower and shorter, but a bit longer. It's a bit hard to tell what the screen size difference is without having one in front of me.
Still, color is "nice but not necessary". I think a paper white high res grayscale Palm V would be the coolest personally.
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