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.

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Jornada and Compaq

[jsse]

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.

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. :)

Viewsonic releasing its own PDA this September

[Stir]

The Viewpad

Not as cumbersome as a laptop, but larger than a iPaq or Jornada, which makes it ideal for me.

Linuette

[SurfsUp]

Pretty, very pretty

206 MHz StrongARM SA-1110

32MB DRAM

32MB Flash

240 x 320 pixel, 4096-color

USB, serial, Ethernet

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