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Handspring Delays Treo, Plans To Drop Organizer Line
backlonthethird writes: "http://www.palminfocenter.com has the scoop on Handspring's triple announcements yesterday. CEO Donna Dubinsky says they're dropping "Organizers," (i.e. visors?), and most of their new Treos are going to Europe because of a parts shortage. At least their losses this past quarter aren't as bad as people were expecting--they claim profitability by this Summer. What the heck is going on over there?"
The US is a relatively small market for mobile technology, that's why. Around 20% of the world's mobile phone users are in the US. That means the other 80% are elsewhere in the world and more than likely using GSM.
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You could add phone and wireless capabilities to a Visor through the expansion slot in the back. Also, you have an mp3 player, digital camera, and a whole mess of other stuff. Palm is the one that is just a PDA.
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Well, Linux users seem to prefer PalmOS by engineering standards. For instance, they love the long battery life and the simple elegance of PalmOS, not to mention the fact that it's all done on a ~33 mHz chip. They fail to appreciate the value of PocketPC's advances, because they see it as just another bloated Windows platform. Sure, from an engineering standpoint, PalmOS is more efficient and well designed and WinCE just has a lot of hardware behind it to make it look better, but Linux users hate that.
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