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Subject: Re: iPaq costs about $600 - it's very expesnive! NT

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 01:12:08 07/31/01

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The monochrome version should be quite a bit cheaper than that. This side of the
pond, they can be had for around £250 - same 206MHz processor, although only
16MB of RAM.






On July 30, 2001 at 20:16:39, Eran wrote:

>On July 30, 2001 at 12:12:59, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On July 30, 2001 at 08:00:47, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>
>>>On July 30, 2001 at 00:15:15, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 29, 2001 at 21:14:29, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I've just come back from London and America to Israel. I didn't get my palm on
>>>>>my travels, yet, partly because I didn't find one which had ALL the benefits
>>>>>together, and it looked like there is still alot more to be developed, and that
>>>>>they are not running away, if I wait another 3-4 months.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is it good what they have in "Staples"? (In Manhattan etc). And how about psion?
>>>>>S.Taylor
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Psion is dead. At least their handhelds are dead. The company has officially
>>>>announced that it is stopping its handheld series.
>>>>
>>>>At this time there are only 2 serious competitors left:
>>>>* The PalmOS computers (sold by several well known companies including 3com,
>>>>Sony, Handspring, IBM and others). There must be between 15 and 20 millions
>>>>PalmOS computers in the world.
>>>>* The PocketPC computers (with a much smaller market share, but which will maybe
>>>>grow in the future).
>>>
>>>In Europe Pocket PC are pretty close to the market share of Palm devices,
>>>something like Palm 50% Pocket PC 40% Other 10% (Q1 2001)
>>
>>
>>I think your numbers are about profit, not number of units sold. Compaq makes
>>more money on every iPaq, but there are still much more Palm unit sold than
>>iPaqs.
>>
>>Also, there has been a surge in iPaqs sales recently because Compaq has finally
>>been able to deliver units that had been ordered before. This will not happen
>>every quarter.
>>
>>
>>    Christophe



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