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PDA Wars: HP Strikes Back With New Jornadas
wbav writes "According to this article on cnn HP has anounced that they are releasing two new models. At 6 ounces it sports a 203 mhz processor and 32 or 64 megs of ram depending on the model. It comes with Pocket PC 2002, and support for VPNs. Very nice." I do wonder what will happen to the Jornada, given the HP purchase of Compaq - my understanding is that the iPaq has kicked far more butt then the Jornada.
I do wonder what will happen to the Jornada, given the HP purchase of Compaq - my understanding is that the iPaq has kicked far more butt then the Jornada.
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Yes Jornada's kicks, but the success of iPaq tells us a company's marketing and supporting is also very important.
I know many people who are going to develop apps for iPaq have the common happy experience - Compaq is being very supportive in development, martketing and financing when you shows your intention to develop for iPaq.
Compaq will take every opportunities to promote your apps(even in pre-alpha stage) in every trade show and even invite you to their promotional events if possible. If your apps is good enough Compaq even help you line up VCs for you to start a new company! That's some kind of convenience that couldn't be found in developing apps in other handheld devices.
It's no harm in having two lines of similar products, but to ensure the success Jornada HP must put their entire Jornada's team under iPaq's. Really, you can hardly find any other line of business more supportive than iPaq's.
HP took the hit a while ago with the high color screens that really only did 4096 colors.
From what I understand, the new Jornadas have 16-bit color, while the iPaq (like the older Jornadas) has 12-bit (4096 colors).
Web Comics and MPEGs look fine on my iPaq, but photos have a decidedly nasty look to them.
My understanding of the iPaq's success stemmed mostly from the power of the machine (it was equipped with the fastest processor of the bunch), and the exapndability. I haven't heavily researched the Jornada, but the iPaq has a PCMCIA expansion jacket available. WLAN sold a lot of people on these units.
The Viewpad
Not as cumbersome as a laptop, but larger than a iPaq or Jornada, which makes it ideal for me.
You need to learn how to read, son.
The chart you linked to shows Compaq with 11.9% of Q1 2001 vs HP's 4.1% of Q1 2001. The number you keep quoting was Q1 2000. Year to Year, # of Units sold in Western Europe was 8,978 units for Q1 2000 for Compaq and 100,362 units for Q1 2001. In contrast, HP accounted for 16,514 units for Q1 2000 and 34,210 units for Q1 2001. That's 109,340 units for Compaq in the two compared Quarters, and 50,724 for HP. In short, Compaq has shipped more than twice as many units as HP has in the same compared periods.
I think you are quoting the old numbers from Q1 2000. By Q1 2001, it's a completely different story...
Western Europe's mobile device market:
Q1 2000 share:
Compaq 2.2%
HP 4.0%
Q1 2001 share
Compaq 11.9%
HP 4.1%
Im really just trying to find a replacement for the Toshiba Libretto. After Toshiba stopped making the palm top, the only real choice people had was PDAs. I really need a wireless device, If I only wanted a calendar or contact list, I have PocketNet phone with Fonesync software. But I needed a true wireless connection with a tcp/ip stack(for SSH) so I picked up a CDPD modem. But carrying around a full size laptop sucks, so I migrated to a PDA. I first started off with an wireless Palm Omnisky. Battery life was nice, upto 1 week light use, and 2 weeks if it sat im my pocket. But I wanted color and sound, I migrated to the PocketPC (Ipaq) and CDPD modem. Not bad, I can surf websites in html not wap, and even listen to mp3s. (Very important for work ya know!) Battery life is weak, and I find myself letting the battery die right when I need. Picked up a IBM Microdrive. Fast, was able to move documents from my laptop and back, neat idea, but didnt use it as much I wanted. I gotta get around to trying out the Pocket Divx Player and put a divx movie on the microdrive. (Gotta watch Red Dwarf ep with the Sock Puppet.)
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Heck, They even have PDA pr0n for those long boring conference calls.
More info in HP's Linux/Java platform can be found here, and here.
It goes some way to addressing the doubts of cynics (like me) about the real-world usefulness of Java for anything other than a CS-graduate-existence-justification tool.
You know they call 'em fingers but I've never seen 'em fing. Oh, there they go.
206 MHz StrongARM SA-1110
32MB DRAM
32MB Flash
240 x 320 pixel, 4096-color
USB, serial, Ethernet
Linux
Life's a bitch but somebody's gotta do it.