Danger Research (which employs 9 ex-Be, Inc. engineers out of about 20 engineers total) is a company that does not talk too much about their product, but it is already known that they are developing a PDA that is able to send and receive email and access the Net among other goodies. Danger hoped to be the first company to have a PDA product that will feature the full range of Internet connectivity, but it seems that the market is getting “dangerously” crowded. RIM already is talking about an updated version of BlackBerry that does more, Motorola have already announced a device oh-so-similar to Danger’s, and now even Sharp with a Linux-oriented device is doing the same. Handspring, which this week announced a deal with Aether Systems, is partnering with other companies to bring corporate data to its handhelds while Good Technology, which was founded in March 2000, prepares a similar product too. Also Motient, a wireless data network company plans to unveil a device that effectively allows a Palm handheld to act more like a BlackBerry pager. The plan in most of these devices is to have the device always connected to the net, as there is a special contract with some major mobile phone networks when you purchase such a device in order to activate it. Our take: Amazingly, Palm still haven’t announced something exciting as this (where most of the software running in a remoted server, and not included and running in the actual machine), and please don’t start posting comments that they will use BeIA for it, because they just won’t. Palm has even postponed any wireless plans.
Wireless Internet PDA Market Already Full?
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please one of you companys, make a webpad that is cheap (around 500 bucks), 8.5 x 11 inch screen, and has a graffit like writing system. and let it hook to a pc easily, be able to make apps for it and have basic connectivity, like usb, ethernet, printer, type support, and how bout a lcd that you put a sheet of paper on and it scans it in, and goes through a text bridge type thing. Is that possable. Basicly i want to replace my class notebooks , books, and other things with one pad. can you do this , please.
Eugenia do you count Joseph Palmer in the 9 ?
http://www.savaje.com for a Java based OS for small ARM based devices. (PDAs)
(This was posted from a Compaq iPAQ runnin Savaje XE. running Espial Escape over an 802.11b wireless network using a Lucent Wavelan card.)
geoff
P.S. It’s based on Java2 SE version 1.3.1
Nope! I still want one! Personally, I don’t think there isn’t a market left for wireless PDAs, however with 3G cell phones that include a PDA and if webpads ever become cheap the market may vanish. It’s not gone yet.
Hey, did you guys know there is a VNC client for the Palm OS (and pocket PC I think) so if you have a wireless Palm you can run a VNC server on BeOS (or Linux, or Windows, or whatever) and access it from your palm. Cool! Probeley dead slow, but still…