07-23-2004, 08:00 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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New iPAQs To Be Officially Announced Monday
"Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) plans to update its line of iPaq PDAs (personal digital assistants) on Monday with four new models, according to a member of HP's public relations staff. The new models will help HP continue to gain ground on PalmOne Inc. in the PDA market. HP's market share in this category has grown over the past several quarters as it has introduced new devices across a variety of categories, from low-end devices costing about $300 to powerful systems that offer Wi-Fi capability and Bluetooth personal area networking technology."
About time! I'll be glad when I can stop saying "the rumored iPAQs".  My only nit is the fact that it's Monday -- it seems like they're always Monday, and you have to wait for the weekend to pass before hearing anything more.
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07-23-2004, 08:11 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Just out of curiosity, does HP have a general point during the fiscal year that is regarded as a time to introduce new models? In the past, when has HP introduced new models?
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07-23-2004, 08:15 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2003
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I've noticed that most new iPAQ's have been announced after the current models have been around for about a year. Not sure if there is any logic to this theory...
PS - Janak you have the wrong link going to our site  ops:
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07-23-2004, 08:18 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Re: New iPAQs To Be Officially Announced Monday
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
My only nit is the fact that it's Monday -- it seems like they're always Monday, and you have to wait for the weekend to pass before hearing anything more.
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They do always seem to be on Mondays...I hate that as well...
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07-23-2004, 08:19 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Monday's a big day. DNC, NYLF/Tech 2004 starts (am attending heh), and now this! Should be on sale around here when I get back on August 4th. 
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07-23-2004, 08:32 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
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I just talked to my CDW rep and he's still saying Aug 15th. :roll:
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07-23-2004, 08:34 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
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my CDW rep said late august. My ecost rep said 2-5 weeks
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07-23-2004, 08:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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What's a drag is that this apparently has no direct bearing on actual availability of the units. I was at CompUSA yesterday and asked a couple of the sales guys and the sales manager to check their inventory system and they don't even have an entry for the hx4700 or hx4705 yet, much less any actual stock. Almost the same at BestBuy which this week only showed a "placeholder" record for it (with the almost-certainly bogus price of $499) in their system, but also with the details that there were zero units even in their warehouses.
I just remember how cool the early PPC (and Palm-Sized PC, etc.) releases were. Big lead-up to a specifc day when the "new year models" were all AVAILABLE in the local stores.
This cycle has rightly been called PPC2003SErvicePack if only for the total lack of marketing effort put out by Microsoft and the OEMs. I don't agree with the (bizzare) "the PDA is dead" commentaries from reporters we've seen in the recent months, but I sure would agree that if Microsoft and the OEMs are going to treat this release with a "we'll get around to it when we can" attitude then people are going to start thinking that way.
Makes you wonder what they are planning to do next. I mean does anyone expect HP to release any substantially different devices for Christmas? Seems awfully unlikely right? So at most there might be a situation where later this year you can buy a hx4700 with a "PPC2004" OS on it. Except that would be really embarrasing right? I mean if PPC2003SE was not "different" enough from PPC2003 to deserve to be PPC2004 then just how much better can this year's PDA be over last years right? So what Microsoft has really done is wrecked the OEM's cycle this year. HP won't be able to schlep the same hardware with some mythical PPC2004 updated OS on it this year (at least not in a way that the market will care about - "we already saw that unit during the summer" etc.)
So I predict there will be no PPC2004 at all. (Or at least no significant new hardware, some "offical" release of it, but no one will care.) We're all now waiting for PPC2005. When you think about it, no wonder Toshiba bailed. They get into the game, need to keep products fresh, only to be told MS won't be "bothering with" a PPC2004 (at least not in time to release it with a new hardware generation.)
I wish Toshiba would consider a linux PDA...
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07-23-2004, 08:42 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally Posted by Elric
I just talked to my CDW rep and he's still saying Aug 15th. :roll:
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Yeah, there's the downpoint, while they will be officially announced on Monday, it doesn't appear as if they will be largely available for at least a few more weeks until production ramps up all speed ahead. This is typical with HP when they release a new product (not limited to iPAQ's) - announce it then have it shipping 2-4 weeks after the official release.
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Originally Posted by Mark Johnson
Makes you wonder what they are planning to do next. I mean does anyone expect HP to release any substantially different devices for Christmas? Seems awfully unlikely right?
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Only one other iPAQ currently planned for release this year and that would be the "Morpheus" model that MGN talked about here slated for this fall.
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07-23-2004, 08:45 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally Posted by Mark Johnson
This cycle has rightly been called PPC2003SErvicePack if only for the total lack of marketing effort put out by Microsoft and the OEMs.
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It's almost as though they have hired the Sharp marketing department to handle the launch.
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I wish Toshiba would consider a linux PDA...
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I'd like to see more Linux devices as well. With more OEMs and more developers, this would really be the way to go.
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