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Ed Hansberry
05-09-2008, 01:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/05/07/palm-gets-real-on-the-zeppelin-adds-mystery-device-named-skywri/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/...e-named-skywri/</a><br /><br /></div><em>&quot;The hot word on the street is that Palm has all but confirmed the existence of two new phone models by ramping up a &quot;launch developer&quot; program for new applications. The devices, dubbed Zeppelin (a name we've heard quite a bit of) and Skywriter (which is new to us) could be slated for a Q3 release, as Palm is asking devs to turn in their applications by May 30th. Rumor has it that at least one of the units is a &quot;Centro-like&quot; Windows Mobile phone -- if that date is close to correct, it could very well be the &quot;Wanda&quot; that we saw back in January. The Zeppelin, on the other hand, is likely the WiFi equipped Treo 800w we've been hearing about for what seems like a million years.&quot;</em><br /><br />Engadget has an image of a supposed mockup, but it is so ugly I am not going to bother posting it here. If that is what the Zeppelin will look like, it will be dubbed the Lead Zeppelin, as in brick, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ledzeppelin.com">not the rock band</a>.<img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.ehansberry.com/ppct/not_worthy.gif" /><br /><br />

hotdram
05-09-2008, 05:30 PM
Wow, that thing is ugly. Maybe they are doing like Detroit does with cars and are masking their new product until they hit production.

~Rob

txa1265
05-09-2008, 07:06 PM
Wow, that thing is ugly. Maybe they are doing like Detroit does with cars and are masking their new product until they hit production.

~Rob

It transcends simple 'ugly' and hits 'fugly' ... but then so was the original PalmPilot compared to my beautiful Newtons and HP200LX's ...

rreynoso72
05-09-2008, 07:20 PM
I found a previous render they did

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08194/skywriter2487.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs227&d=08194&f=skywriter2487.jpg)

But they did not released it :D

Steven Cedrone
05-13-2008, 11:01 PM
The new "Edsel"... :D