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Check this baby out!
http://www.minidisc.org/mz-r110pda.htm

WoW! They look great!

But the price? $299...unreal...this reeks of...POISSON D'AVRIL! (French people yell this instead of April fools!

[This message has been edited by Goyena (edited 04-03-2000).]

It is advertised at http://www.purepalm.com/
as well.

In my opinion, this isn't a real product. sure it look kinda realistic and i congratulate whoever made it but it doesn't look like anything Sony would put out. it's like all those "artist renderings" of cool future PDAs.. pure speculation.. Any disagree? Jeff

Ok, I can't stand to see this thread go on any longer without saying at least this much....

It's an April Fool's joke!

It's OBVIOUSLY Fake. Look at the Palm OS Screen. It's blurred (the difference between the size MD Device and the Palm Screen resolution). You can tell someone stretched the screen to fit in Photoshop. Really a pretty bad touch up job. they should have taken a screen shot and added a longer menu bar, and then skewed it. Then it would have looked a lot better.

I too think these pics are Photoshop exports. Has anyone else noticed that all of the buttons along the bottom of the unit are from the Palm IIIc?

Has anyone else noticed the news article on VisorCentral SAYING that this was an April fools joke?!

That article on VisorCentral was referrign to something else.

VoxDei,
It has not been confirmed, yet, that this is an "April Fools" joke. Until then all this is speculation.

The latest issue of Tap Magazine (weekly) had a short article about the same products... if this an April fools joke, it's fooled a lot of people... I'm inclined to believe that there's no joke here.

If this is no joke, this would be a heck of a Palm OS device! Think of the possibilities! You can have practically a MiniDisk FULL of mp3's!! Don't minidisks hold as much data as a CD rom? Only drawback would be the batterylife from the color screenand the minidisk player.

Oh well..
Mike

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Originally posted by BEN:
That article on VisorCentral was referrign to something else.

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I believe that it's an AFJ for several reasons:
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>No stories from major news sources (CNN, C|Net, etc)
<LI>Info on a new product was posted on April 1st (a Saturday)? Hmmmmm
</UL>
Bottom line: I'll believe it when I see more reports on it. Until then, we may as well talk about Apple buying Handspring

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James Hromadka
VisorCentral.com
Personal Website: http://www.Hromadka.com

Apple is buying Handspring?...Oh my GOD!!!

Just kidding

[This message has been edited by foo fighter (edited 04-04-2000).]

Well, there goes the neighborhood!!!!!!!!!

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Have Visor Will Travel!

Now that would make my day! I almost bought a Newton because of my devotion to Apple!

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Deb Auld

I must admit that this sony pda april fools' joke got me. I was already looking for my wallet

Hello!

Look at the bottom of the page in that link and read...

"Sorry, April Fools! Thanks go to Shawn
Lin for the excellent digital darkroom
work."

http://www.go2mac.com/displaynews.cfm?newsid=6051

I found this link this morning.

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Deb Auld