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Dell and HP PDAs slug it out amid sea of gadgets
News HP introduced a new high-end HP iPaq Pocket PC h5450, with built-in Bluetooth and 802.11b capabilities. The company also showed off a lighter weight HP iPaq Pocket PC h1910. The company's new Pocket PC PDA, the Axim X5, focuses on delivering a...
[November 19, 2002, 10:28]
TechXNY: Return of the PDA/phone hybrids
News Kyocera announced a new smartphone, the 7135; Sony added the PEG-T665C to its Clie line of handhelds and, as expected, HP announced two new additions to its iPaq handheld family. HP released the $649 (£450) iPaq H3950 and the $749 (£519) iPaq H3970.
[June 25, 2002, 10:53]
Report: Dell to go into handhelds
News HP/Compaq will be Dell's primary target," the ARS report says, "as a Dell PDA will aim to compete with the iPaq, which has been a huge success in the handhelds industry. On Monday, HP plans to announce two new iPaqs, the first products under that...
[June 21, 2002, 15:14]
PDA market remains buoyant
News Despite Compaq's early success with the device and HP's withdrawal of its similar Jornada -- which should have given iPaq a further boost -- Canalys director and senior analyst Chris Jones explained: "Pocket PC vendors are finding it harder to...
[January 28, 2003, 13:05]
HP gains on rivals in European PDA market
News Palm and Microsoft's Pocket PC-based devices -- such as iPaq and Jornada -- are locked in a bruising struggle for survival, with many predicting that Palm's simpler devices will be marginalised by the increasing success of Pocket PC in large...
[January 29, 2002, 16:34]
Sharp plans Linux PDA
News Compaq is also doing experimental work porting Linux to the iPaq and Mui suggested that if Sharp's PDA is a big success this could help Linux onto other handheld devices. IDC Research analyst Tim Mui said that for this reason, Sharp's PDA is likely...
[March 5, 2001, 15:50]
Handheld makers feel the squeeze
News HP was able to edge Palm in revenue for the quarter, however, reflecting the higher selling prices of its iPaq and Jornada devices. The decline in (HP) Jornada and iPaq shipments from a year ago is largely a result of economic conditions...
[August 5, 2002, 14:34]
Manufacturers snub Dell's low-cost Pocket PC
News But a report in Taiwanese industry journal DigiTimes on Tuesday suggested that Dell is having trouble finding a manufacturer to produce such a device for a cost low enough to distinguish it from competition such as HP's iPaq.
[July 3, 2002, 14:49]
How a handheld could help Dell compete
News Even leaving out the iPhone from Apple, chief rival HP has the iPAQ, which isn't the prettiest device ever seen, but which is packed with current technology and has been well-received. But Dell's reputation and balance sheet could greatly benefit...
[December 11, 2007, 10:24]
FIC puts Bluetooth into Pocket PC
News Compaq sells a Bluetooth-enabled iPaq Pocket PC, but it is significantly more expensive than the standard iPaq. The company introduced a Linux-based Bluetooth PDA at last summer's Computex trade show in Taiwan.
[March 15, 2002, 17:08]
HP iPaq takes crown from Palm in Asia
News With the introduction of both the HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5450 and h1910, HP now has an iPAQ for every customer segment," said Raymond Wah, a vice president with HP's Personal Systems Group. Beginning late last year, the pendulum began to swing in...
[June 6, 2003, 8:54]
Palm buys Handspring, spins off PalmSource
News Though Palm remains the leading seller of PDAs, products based on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system and the Pocket PC software, such as HP's iPaq, have been steadily gaining market share over the past few years.
[June 4, 2003, 12:30]
Sharp picks Lineo's Linux for new PDA
News A handful of Linux handhelds are emerging, and Linux can be installed on several handheld computers -- most notably Compaq's iPaq. Now, though, the economic slowdown has hammered Palm; once-scarce PDA models are overabundant, and handhelds are...
[June 1, 2001, 8:43]
New handheld aims to bridge digital divide
News Inside Simputer there's an Intel StrongArm SA-1100 RISC CPU humming along at 200MHz -- the same power behind Compaq's iPaq Pocket PC. The Simputer is a PDA-sized handheld computer that runs on the GNU/Linux operating system.
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
MS targets smart phones, pagers
News HTC is the manufacturer behind Compaq Computer's iPaq Pocket PC handheld. The growth of the phone and pager markets is expected to eclipse that of the PDA market in the next five years, according to analysts.
[March 21, 2001, 8:32]
Pocket PC shortage helping Palm
News Hewlett-Packard's Jornada, which has been on the market longer than the iPaq, is not experiencing supply problems, according to the company. Part of the problem is that the iPaq is an enterprise product, so we sell a lot in large volumes," said...
[August 4, 2000, 8:41]
Next-gen Intel chip makes handheld debut
News Not many other PDA makers are offering integrated wireless Pocket PCs, with Compaq's iPaq as a notable exception. This new PDA offers portability, ease of use and wireless connectivity -- it's a core offering in our mobile computing strategy," said...
[June 17, 2002, 13:58]
Nuggets: HP's Jornada is one heavy-duty handheld
News Although the Jornada isn't much of a burden to carry round, it's noticeably bigger and heavier than a lower-spec portable device such as a Psion Revo or a Compaq iPaq. If it's just an electronic organiser you're after, then go for a cheap PDA and...
[November 10, 2000, 10:46]
Brace yourselves for Sony's handheld
News In the Pocket PC camp, the iPaq from Compaq has been gaining buzz, but has also been held back by supply issues. If you read between the lines, the upcoming announcement that Sony Electronics is entering the PDA market is both good news and bad...
[August 29, 2000, 8:30]
Palm Bluetooth coming next month
News Compaq Computer has also incorporated Bluetooth into one of its latest iPaq handhelds, which use the Pocket PC operating system from Microsoft. But the TDK devices, unlike the SD cards, add significantly to the PDA's bulk, and the BlueM must be...
[January 16, 2002, 13:00]
