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Palm to Buy Handspring

Posted by michael on from the get-another-one-in-case-the-first-one-breaks dept.

liam193 writes "CBS MarketWatch is reporting that Palm has agreed to buy Handspring for $169M. If you were purchasing a PDA right now, would you choose Palm, Handspring, or avoid them entirely? I guess one of my concerns is that Handspring has some really cool features that Palm may want to keep. Any merger spells elimination of product lines. So what gets dropped? Palm which has probably a nicer "case" style or Handspring with its less desirable case but some features you don't find on Palms."

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  1. Sammy Sosa, baseball star and cheater, dead at 34 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some happy news on ESPN radio - Major League Baseball star and perceived nice-guy Sammy Sosa was found dead on Wrigley Field this morning. The apparent cause of death was suicide. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his steroids and cork-induced mammoth homeruns, there's no denying his contributions to the history of baseball cheaters. Truly a Dominican icon.

  2. Re:If this is not the first post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would you like some ketchup with that order???

  3. Re:Sammy Sosa, baseball star and cheater, dead at by ewwhite · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're a sicko...

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    Edmund White
    http://flickr.com/ewwhite
  4. Re:Sammy Sosa, baseball star and cheater, dead at by scifience · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Right....when pigs fly.

  5. Don't get your cocks in an uproar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Alright, raise your hands if you fucked a love doll last night, using the "Palm Sutra" program for pointers.

  6. Re:Sammy Sosa, baseball star and cheater, dead at by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sosa may not be dead, but he IS a cheater: Sosa caught with corked bat

  7. Palm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can

    eat

    my

    feces.

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  8. Anybody that thinks they *need* a PDA..... by Selecter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is mistaken. I guess there are poeple in this world that love gadgets for gadgets sake but I never could figure out a use for a PDA in my life. Of course, I like life to be pretty blase. Maybe you get up and go Class A thrive on artificial corporate induced pressure types can tell me what you actually use a PDA for that cant be done with other things just as well or almost as well and I get get more perspective on it.