I'm not aware that a GPS was ever available for the Zoomer. If someone knows
about it, please post.
> Ive sort of lost contact with Geoworks a long time ago
> why did the first 3 Zoomers leave the market?
> And is there any plans for new Zoomers to enter the market at any time?
Zoomer sales weren't huge. None of the other pen-based PDA's from the same
period (e.g. Apple Newton MessagePad, Sharp ExpertPad, EO 440, Sony MagicLink)
sold that much better, and only Apple seems to have persisted long enough to
see follow-on products.
The concept of a Zoomer-compatible series of products from multiple vendors
never quite took off as might have been intended. Sharp came out with the
PT9000, but sold it only to OEM channels. Hyundai developed the Gulliver, but
never sold it outside of Korea (if there, even -- if anyone knows more about
that, please let me know!). Casio, which manufactured the Zoomer under their
own label and also for Tandy and AST/GRiD, didn't follow on with a new model
but instead seems to have joined the Dark Side (Windows CE).
The closest thing to a "new Zoomer" is the HP OmniGo. Not entirely compatible,
it's similar enough to share some software and HP seems to be continuing to
develop the product.
Somewhat less related is the Nokia 9000 telephone/PDA. Anyone have one? It
runs GEOS 3.0, doesn't use a pen interface, and I don't know what if any
software compatibility exists between Zoomer/OmniGo and Nokia 9000s.
-- -Brian Smithson brian@grot.com