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Longden C. Loo lloo@world.nad.northrop.com
Northrop Grumman Corporation Information Services
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On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Brian Smithson wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 95 14:24:00 PDT Fortson, Russ wrote:
> > >
> > >What's this about the HP Jedi? I already know I paid too much for my
> > Zoomer
> > >($250 at Radio Shack).
> >
>
> I'd like to know much more about the Jedi as well. A lengthy search of
> WWW sites (HP corporate, 100/200LX sites, general PDA sites), newsgroups
> (all of 'em :-), and FAQs, revealed very little. All I could glean was it:
>
> - is rumored to be out in October-December sometime; this is a slip from
> the previous rumor of August
>
> - is GEOS 2.X-based (hopefully it'll be GEOS 2.1 with execute-in-place),
> with a follow-on GEOS 3.0-based product rumored for next year
>
> - will use the same 80186-ish core processor that is used in the 200LX;
> the follow-on product will use the AMD Elan processor
>
> - will be priced at or under $300
>
> - complements the 200LX products, but the follow-on products will likely
> replace the 200LX (meaning: more built-in name brand apps? -my speculation)
>
> - is being designed at HP Singapore, as are other new handheld HP products;
> HP Corvallis (Oregon) is switching over to doing notebook products
>
>
> Does anyone else have information about the product? Is it forward compatible
> from the Zoomer (i.e. Zoomer apps will run on the HP)? Backward compatible
> (i.e. HP apps will run on the Zoomer)? Uses the current GEOS SDK? What about
> screen size, battery life, built-in apps, etc.?
>
> -Brian
>