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Re: New PalmPilot in 1999

From: "Felix S. Gallo" <fsg@ultranet.com>
Date: Wed Aug 19 14:55:46 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables

R. Paul writes:
>Excerpt taken from www.news.com:
>
><snip>
>
>PalmPilot to get thinner, faster 
>By Stephanie Miles
>Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
>August 18, 1998, 5:05 p.m. PT 
>
>The next generation of 3Com's PalmPilot will offer
>improved handwriting recognition, a slimmer design,
>and a faster processor, industry sources confirmed
>today. [...]

>Anyone know what processor their planning on using? Just a faster
>version of the one they're using now?

The Palm development support staff just recently mentioned on
the Palm developer mailing list that the new processor for at least
one model will be the 68832EZ, which is actually a Dragonball
Lite.  Same speed as the regular Dragonball, but fewer or
less powerful peripherals.  It has a much smaller form factor,
and presumably a far lower cost.

It's my bet that News.com is, as usual, full of it, and that the
Palm plan is to stick with the completely satisfactory processor
speed they have and instead optimize the other factors.

Felix

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