Not for Palm, but for Sony
What this means is that Sony will have a model for the same price with more features. I suspect a T665 type OS 5 model. Soft graffitti is surely in the new Sony OS 5 models. There are tons of software developers supporting Sony soft grafitti (The latest is FITALY! I am beta testing it right now. I am in heaven.) They would not be supporting this if the Sony OS 5 models (that the developers have already seen) didn't have it.
So, the T665/OS 5 will have all the Tungsten does plus soft graffitti, better sound and screen color, probably more memory (but less battery life as a result) and a 206 MZ StrongARM.
The odd thing coming is that Palm needs to make money (Toshiba can't be making any on the e310 at $200, but they are building a base and have money to invest in cracking into the Ipaqs market). Sony seems to be happy selling its low end at cost but high end they want to make money on even with 3-6 month product cycles. (BTW, how in the world do they do that?!)
I think few people who left the Palm world for the video and MP3 power of the PPC will come back to Palm as the chief advantage Palm models had a year ago (price) is gone. But, if this Tungsten will play music for 20 hours on a charge because of some DSP magic in the TI design (BTW, I think we may learn soon that it was TI who put that $50 Million into Palm last year. This is what they got for it, a leg up on Motorola in the OS 5 competition.)... I digress. If .....20 hours..... then Palm may have something. A couple of really clever Blue Tooth accessories and they could have a tech glow again. This Christmas.......
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