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Monday, February 04, 2002 |
Office Depot dumping Visor inventory "VisorCentral is reporting that Office Depot is running some sort of "fire" sale on all Visor handhelds and Visor accessories. Some of the liquidation deals include the $99 Targus Total Voice Recorder for $25, the $99 Stowaway foldable keyboard for $49, the $39 Visor Backup Springboard module for $12, and $50 replacement Visor Prism cradles for $20. Office Depot has also removed all Visor products and accessories from their online store. This begs the question, does Office Depot know something no one else does? Could the Visor line of PDA's be heading to the grave much sooner than Handspring wants everyone to think? I still recall a representative of the company saying that Visor production will begin to ramp down in March, so I wouldn't be surprised if Visor's cease production all together by July 2002, much sooner than Handspring co-founder Jeff Hawkins would like everyone, especially developers to believe." [PDABuzz.com]
I never liked Handspring's products specifically because of their modular approach. To get everything I would have wanted, I'd have to spend $1000 and then still carry around with me all of the modules. I have enough trouble keeping track of my Clie and cell phone, thank you very much. So I'm not surprised that Handspring is scaling back in the face of competition from the new PocketPCs. If you own one, though, get thee to an Office Depot!
5:59:50 PM 
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Caution urged on 802.11a adoption "...users can expect a more limited feature set than currently found in 802.11b products, listing such missing items as full security capabilities, network management, and roaming.... 'We think we will see a lot of companies roll out 'b' and augment it with 'a' where they need higher bandwidth. But 'g' will be the true successor to 'b' because of its backwards compatibility to both 'a' and 'b,' ' said Alex Thatcher, wireless solutions product manager at HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif.... The issue over handheld devices is even more problematic. Handhelds currently support a 16-bit bus for PC Card and Compact Flash II add-on cards. Wi-Fi 5, in its first iteration, uses a 32-bit bus technology and will not work with current handhelds." [in IDG InfoWorld]
Illustrates the state of acronym soup in today's wireless world. I remember how excited I was to get my first 28.8 modem, so I'm optimistic about a high-speed, wireless future sooner than later.
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Comments by: YACCS
© Copyright 2002 Jenny Levine.
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