From our friends at blackberrycool.com:
Appears as though the Palm of the handheld world is getting all clammy. With recent news that Motorola has bought up symbol technologies, Yahoo Finance reports that the same fate could be handed to Palm. Jonathan Hoppes, an analyst at Think Equity, isn’t sure on who the buyer would be (leaning towards Motorola), but feels as though there’s definite value in picking up the company.
Hoopes says his belief that either Motorola or another company will pursue the company “is a major reason we did not encourage investors to sell shares despite management’s recent track record of mis-execution.”
A nice little sidenote from the article mentions that although Motorola’s been making/planning some purchases, Research In Motion still isn’t anywhere close to being unseated at the top of the handheld world. Ba-zing, Motorola. Save your coinage and spend it creating a new ringtone - anyone else tired of that “Hello Moto” jerk?
Computerworld.com.au has a great little overview of Sprint’s foray back into the Palm space with the 700WX. Some highlights:
- There is a 1.3-megapixel camera that also captures video, for example, and the Treo does a photo album and slide shows with pictures you take with it or load onto it. The pictures aren’t wonderful, but they’re certainly good enough for e-mailing.
- There’s audio and video playback courtesy of the Windows Media Player bundled with the operating system. It’s just fine, especially if you invest in an adapter for the 2.5mm headset jack and attach a pair of real headphones, or use a Bluetooth stereo headset. (The media-file library on the Treo can sync with Windows Media on your PC, something like iTunes and an iPod, but that’s the hard way. Just stick some MP3 files on an SD card and plug it into the Treo’s SD socket.) The sound quality through the unit’s small speaker is awful, but it’s not as bad as you’d expect.
- The Treo provides viewers for Office documents and PDF files that come as e-mail attachments or are loaded onto the device. Functionality is wonderful: You can edit Word documents and zoom into PDF files, but how much of that do you really want to do on a screen the size of four stamps?
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