Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Plainville, CT 06062
Posts: 9

Now that Palm has announced that they will have color units available in the first half of next year, how long before Handspring follows along with this?

Will Palm figure out the battery life issue thus allowing all PalmOS machines better usage?

More importantly, what does this mean to those who have purchased a non-color display Visor?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 74

It means that non-color Visor owners go on and live happy and productive lives. Anyone who feels color is important will upgrade when it is available.

I think Handspring will either beat Palm to releasing a color device, or follow very closely.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 54

I think until you can have reliable, relatively fast wireless internet access, or enough memory or adaptability for DVD movies, color is overrated for the PDA platform. Gameplayers might disagree, but that's what gameboys are for...

...whooooosh...

(that's my sound effect for something being thrown at me)

Let me know if there are other signigicant benefits to having color this early in the development stage (i.e. battery and memory conditions being what they are).

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Lexington, KY, USA
Posts: 50

Could someone give me a small hint as to why I would even want color? This is a replacement for my paper notepad, so I suppose yellow might be nice, but other than that, why bother? This is not a video game.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Urbana IL
Posts: 144

Wireless is much more important to me than color. I wish they would concentrate on that!

I can see the benefits of color though...even mundane things like spreadsheets are more readable with color. Color maps (great!) as well as easier-to-decipher drawings and technical diagrams will begin to make the PDA indispensable as long as the issues of size, weight, cost, and battery life can be overcome.

Just imagine a coworker stopping you in hallway and asking a complicated question, or a client off-site. Instead of being tethered to a desktop, a quality color portable could pull up a simple web page (on- or off-line) with the info and related pictures and documents. It's a lot more professional to be able to answer a question on-the-spot, as opposed to via fax, mail, or phone.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 29

I'd be the first one to agree that color takes second place over alot of other things, especially battery life. But this new news item on palmstation shows what someone believes a color palm OS would look like. Obviously a fake. http://www.palmstation.com/p/pose30...s35-color-2.jpg

But it looks really cool!


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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 45

Hawkins is brilliant and read my lips "HE WILL ONLY GIVE YOU COLOR IF YOU NEED IT !" So, to post that he would be first or that he is concentrating on this, is like assuming that you do not understand the soul reason PALM technology is kicking Microsoft's ass.