Re: New PDAs on the horizon...

Brian Smithson (brians@best.com)
Thu, 7 Sep 1995 16:17:07 -0700 (PDT)

And from another Usenet message, some other speculative details
taken from a recent Pen Computing magazine:

>The Aug/Sep 1995 issue of Pen Computing magazine has a short paragraph
>of rumors about the unannounced future successor to the HP 200LX palmtop.
>The article, on page 20, says the following:
>
> - the new product is codenamed "OmniGo"
> - it contains an integrated keyboard (remember, this magazine
> is called Pen Computing)
> - has an irDA compliant port
> - will run new GEOS 3.0 operating system
> - has one Type 2 PCMCIA port
> - HP will not make their goal of a retail price of $350. It will be
> more than that.
> - will be available for the Christmas electronics buying season
>

GEOS3.0 is a surprise -- I thought they would be offerring GEOS2.1 (with XIP)
and saving GEOS3.0 until later models with more powerful CPUs from AMD.

It's too bad if the price rises above $350. Somehow $300 seems like a
no-brainer purchase price point, but $350+ requires thought.

-Brian