10-25-2002, 10:33 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Dell makes a Windows Embedded PDA?
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/10/21/021021opcringely.xml
InfoWorld correspondent Robert X. Cringely� recently brought up the upcoming Dell PDA in his "Notes from the field" column: "A Dell executive told my spy that Dell will be introducing PDAs later this year. Although that has been previously reported, my spy did manage to get out of the exec that Dell will issue a handheld running embedded Windows XP with some voice-command functions. Expect it around Christmas, the spy said." (Source Foo Fighter)
True or false? Will Dell go niche and go with Windows Embedded or will Dell stay true to their volume and mainstream business model and go with Windows CE and Pocket PC? I'll eat my hat if Dell does not go with the latter. Mr. Cringley is wrong, I believe.
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10-25-2002, 11:12 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Well the oqo is an embedded XP pda and has been causing a stir.
I think it may be the way forward.
No more lite limited versions of sofware needed?
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10-25-2002, 12:01 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2005
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It sounds good to me
This sounds closer to what it is I am looking for. I am less interested in a PDA that is a telephone and more interested in a PDA that is a media center.
I would like to see the PDAs move closer to the Archos Studio Media player. I would love to have a PDA has all the functionality of the current PDAs + a 20G HD + FM tuner + USB 2.0 + TV Tuner.
I wish Dell would hurry up and release their product specs. The suspense is killing me.
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10-25-2002, 02:36 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Dell makes a Windows Embedded PDA?
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Originally Posted by Andy Sjostrom
Mr. Cringley is wrong, I believe.
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I'm with you, Andy. What's infinitely more likely than Dell releasing an XP-based PDA by Christmas is that the exec was confused about what the PDA ran. I can hear the conversation now...
Cringley - "Does it run CE?"
Exec - "No, it runs Windows."
Cringley(stunned) - "You mean Windows XP?"
Exec - "Yes."
Cringley then proceeds to write a blurb for is column based on the 'fact' he received from a Dell exec. He doesn't bother to check the 'fact' because he wants to be the first to break the story...besides, this is supposed to be secret stuff, so who in their right mind would confirm this?
-Jim
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10-25-2002, 03:04 PM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by jayman
Well the oqo is an embedded XP pda and has been causing a stir.
I think it may be the way forward.
No more lite limited versions of sofware needed?
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The oqo is not an embedded XP device, it is a full windows XP device. Embedded is a flavor of the OS normally designed into a niche device for a specific purpose, such as embedded NT running Kiosks or embedded CE running Coke machines. The oqo is a full PC running a full version of windows XP (at this point).
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10-25-2002, 04:39 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Re: It sounds good to me
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Originally Posted by xbalance
This sounds closer to what it is I am looking for. I am less interested in a PDA that is a telephone and more interested in a PDA that is a media center.
I would like to see the PDAs move closer to the Archos Studio Media player. I would love to have a PDA has all the functionality of the current PDAs + a 20G HD + FM tuner + USB 2.0 + TV Tuner.
I wish Dell would hurry up and release their product specs. The suspense is killing me.
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this machine might be the one you are waiting for but dell will not be the company introducing it. if these machines take off, then toshiba, sony, hp will start producing them en masse. only then will dell start producing good solid spec but unexciting knockoffs at cheaper prices. to do otherwise would be a foolish change to a company brand image that is working for them.
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10-25-2002, 04:44 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 307
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Re: It sounds good to me
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Originally Posted by Marcel_Proust
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Originally Posted by xbalance
This sounds closer to what it is I am looking for. I am less interested in a PDA that is a telephone and more interested in a PDA that is a media center.
I would like to see the PDAs move closer to the Archos Studio Media player. I would love to have a PDA has all the functionality of the current PDAs + a 20G HD + FM tuner + USB 2.0 + TV Tuner.
I wish Dell would hurry up and release their product specs. The suspense is killing me.
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this machine might be the one you are waiting for but dell will not be the company introducing it. if these machines take off, then toshiba, sony, hp will start producing them en masse. only then will dell start producing good solid spec but unexciting knockoffs at cheaper prices. to do otherwise would be a foolish change to a company brand image that is working for them. |
p.s. i have some doubts too about the oqo and the windows xp on a handheld. the strategy for xp and it's predecessors is always to create a push for a need for faster desktops. this doesn't quite fit on the same scale as handhelds. the two models may be incompatible or least disadvantageous to creating the smallest sleekest handheld machines possible, which as time and time again shows is what sells well.
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10-25-2002, 07:03 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
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"By Christmas"......of what year? 2004???
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10-25-2002, 07:53 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 513
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I really wish PPCs would come with an embedded 1.8" HDD. An iPAQ 5000 w/ 20GB, at the same size 
Barring that, when's the next gen of IBM Microdrives coming out (6 gigs wasn't it)??
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10-25-2002, 09:59 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 725
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Re: It sounds good to me
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Originally Posted by Marcel_Proust
this machine might be the one you are waiting for but dell will not be the company introducing it. if these machines take off, then toshiba, sony, hp will start producing them en masse. only then will dell start producing good solid spec but unexciting knockoffs at cheaper prices. to do otherwise would be a foolish change to a company brand image that is working for them.
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I tend to agree with you, Dell is not an innovator. That's no secret, they're a mass producer and always have been. I remember them specifically saying they would not enter the PDA market until it was well-established. Now, we're to believe that in the course of a few months they've come full circle and are planning to try to create a NEW PDA market?
I don't think so...
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