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Subject: Re: Any news about Palm Hiarcs?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:26:42 01/20/04

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On January 20, 2004 at 08:28:00, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On January 20, 2004 at 06:50:32, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On January 20, 2004 at 06:43:18, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>mark is heavily working on this thing.
>>>
>>>thats all i know.
>>>let's wait. he not only has to make it for the normal palms, but also for the
>>>ARM-palms. so maybe it needs a little more time.
>>
>>I think you could say that the ARM-palms *are* the normal Palms by now.  Are
>>68k Palms even produced any more?
>>
>>It's unfortunate that it is so tricky to write ARM code for the current
>>generation of Palm OS.  I have more or less given up myself, and will not finish
>>the Palm OS version of my engine before Palm OS 6 units appear on the market.
>>It
>>looks like Palm OS 6 will finally make it easy to write ARM-native programs.
>>
>>Tord
>
>the question is : WHICH market is bigger in the moment: old palms or new ones.

One of the many pleasures of being an amateur is that I don't need to
care about the market.  :-)

>I have serious doubts to buy a tungsten T3 because i have seen many units make a
>very high frequency sounds with the display- this is something i do not wish to
>have.
>a palm making ugly sounds while using it.

I've never tried a T3, but I haven't had any sort of problems with my
original Tungsten T, bought more than one year ago.

>instead i bought a little notebook. while i am waiting there will be a better
>tungsten... and that the market has ENOUGH machines available. in the moment
>it is very difficult to get machines because palm cannot produce enough.
>
>Also IMO the price is still to high.
>
>349 EURO it is in the moment (amazon.de)

Yes, but that is about the most expensive Palm OS 5 unit you can find.
The Tungsten E is only 199 EURO at amazon.de.

Tord





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