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Palm Introduces Affordable Zire

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the breaking-into-new-markets dept.

the beava writes "Palm has officially announced the release of their latest handheld, the Zire. At $99 dollars (retail), it looks like they're trying to market this thing to people like parents and children. " Not a bad looking unit for the price.

2 of 272 comments (clear)

  1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    me offtopic?!?! I posted this with my Palm...
    see how quick I was? You try beating that on
    your fancy slow Mozilla Linux browser ...

    I should get +4 PALM USER

  2. Re:No backlight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Business plan:

    1. Buy lots of LEDs
    2. Wire then up to a battery and put them round the screen of a Zire, to improvise a backlight
    3. Profit.