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Is that a PDA on your wrist?

http://www.visorcentral.com/content/Stories/1322-1.htm

Fossil recently introduced the Wrist PDA - a stylish wrist watch that lets you download and store important personal data from your Visor using infrared beaming.

Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Nashville, TN USA
Posts: 125

For those of us that are a little slow.

Question --

If the pocket PC watch works with both the pocket PC & the palm, but the palm watch only works with the palm ....

Uhmmm - why would you buy the palm one?

The only reasons I can think of:
1. Price - if the pocket PC watch is a lot more expensive than the palm.
2. Complexity - works & works easily can be two very different concepts. If you have to jump thru hoops to get it to work with your palm - that could be a problem.

Just wondering.

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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: El Segundo,CA
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Actually the specs say each watch is tied to its own type of handheld.

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Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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no - the palm one works with palm and PPC 02

the ppc one works with all ppc

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
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Based on the info listed on the specification pages, it looks to me like the Wirist PDA only works with the PalmOS

COMPATIBLE HANDHELDS
Palm OS handhelds:
� Palm III, V, VII, M100, M500 models
� Handspring Visor� Models
� Sony Clie models.

and the Wrist PDA/PC works with PPC.

COMPATIBLE HANDHELDS
PocketPC handhelds:
� Compaq iPaq
� Cassiopeia
� HP Jornada

I don't see where either explicitly states compatability with the other platform.

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Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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They work becuase the PPC 2002 can beam thigns nativly to Palm handhelds. To the PPC, the palm version wristPDA appears to be a palm handheld - granted thought that it will not fully support it, as the software on it was made for Palm, so you only will get the basics - the PPC version was made for PPC and supports the features of PPC ..

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 217

I looked at this thing at the Fossil store yesterday. It's huge!

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