New Wireless Handhelds On The Way

Imran writes: "Palm and Handspring have both received regulatory approval for three new wireless devices. According to documents filed with the FCC, the Palm i705 will have a built-in antenna, a universal connector for add-ons and syncing, and a postage stamp-size Secure Digital expansion slot. There will also be new features aimed at making e-mail a key function of the device. Handspring's devices, the Treo k180 (which has a keyboard similar to that of the BlackBerry) and Treo g180, can surf the Internet using Handspring's Blazer browser. They feature a 33MHz Dragonball VZ processor, 16MB of DRAM and rechargeable batteries. Both can connect to a PC using a USB or serial cable. The cover of each device flips up and acts as the earpiece for the phone, while a microphone is located at the bottom of each unit."

Comments

Named after a pain-killer?

[allanj]

I wonder if there's some marketing gimmick in naming a wireless device after a well-known pain-killer (Treo). Most wireless devices I've tried have regularly been so furiously limited that I had to use pain-killers after using the device...

Too slow for me too care.

[supabeast!]

Palms and Visors are cool, but just too slow to compete with the screaming-fast CE Handhelds. Between the CE machines and all of the upcoming Transmeta based "webpads" that will be coming out, Palm and Visor will eventually get creamed.

Re:Pocket PC

[Anonymous Coward]

Either you work for Microsoft or you've never really used a PocketPC. Which one is it?

Lord knows I need a faster PDA

[Rev. Null]

Because, being from the planet Krypton, I can move at amazing speeds, and accessing my address book and "to do" list is an unbearable, tedious chore because the processor can't keep up with me. I suppose you mere humans wouldn't really mind though.

There's also the fact that I want to do heavy number crunching on my PDA. Factoring large numbers into primes, running software to design chips with millions of transistors, etc. Palms just don't cut it in that department.

But maybe these CE devices are what I need. Since I also have tremendous strength, it would be no trouble to carry out the trash despite being weighed down by the many batteries that the CE devices would burn through.

Re:Similar Symbian products?

[-=OmegaMan=-]

They let you use the Sybian at work?

I knew Europe was a little more sexually free than the United States, but how the hell are you supposed to get any work done? :p