Friday, February 22, 2002
Win some, lose some - Trium dumps Pocket PC
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "HARDWARE" @ 01:06 PM
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=1014407848&30REQEVENT=&REQINT1=51537&REQAUTH=21046&3010REQSUB=
"Mitsubishi's mobile arm, Trium, is planning to ditch the Microsoft operating system from its forthcoming range of PDAs. According to well-placed sources close to the situation, the next Trium PDA will be built with a new operating system based on Sun Microsystem's mobile java architecture, J2ME. "
The article goes on to state that the Trium Mondo didn't do to well. One of the European PPCT authors can jump in, but wasn't the Mondo only sold as a connected GPRS Pocket PC? That pretty much eliminated the US. I also don't know the price point. Given that iPAQ's have had such huge success in Europe, even eclipsing Palm for one quarter last year, it isn't the Pocket PC OS that is the problem. I also thought this comment was a bit odd: "Microsoft's new platform for mobile devices, codenamed Stinger, is too big. You need 32 to 64KB of memory to run the operating system and a hugely powerful processor."
Uhm.... SmartPhone and Pocket PC are two different things. And 32-64KB of memory is too much? Actually, I wasn't aware that SmartPhone would fit in that small of a memory space. I guess their idea of a smart phone doesn't include enough RAM for users to store contacts, emails, appointments and web content. Maybe I am out in left field, but the whole java thing has left me yawning for years. No one has been able to explain why J2ME is any different.
Thanks to Chris Coulter for the link.
"Mitsubishi's mobile arm, Trium, is planning to ditch the Microsoft operating system from its forthcoming range of PDAs. According to well-placed sources close to the situation, the next Trium PDA will be built with a new operating system based on Sun Microsystem's mobile java architecture, J2ME. "
The article goes on to state that the Trium Mondo didn't do to well. One of the European PPCT authors can jump in, but wasn't the Mondo only sold as a connected GPRS Pocket PC? That pretty much eliminated the US. I also don't know the price point. Given that iPAQ's have had such huge success in Europe, even eclipsing Palm for one quarter last year, it isn't the Pocket PC OS that is the problem. I also thought this comment was a bit odd: "Microsoft's new platform for mobile devices, codenamed Stinger, is too big. You need 32 to 64KB of memory to run the operating system and a hugely powerful processor."
Uhm.... SmartPhone and Pocket PC are two different things. And 32-64KB of memory is too much? Actually, I wasn't aware that SmartPhone would fit in that small of a memory space. I guess their idea of a smart phone doesn't include enough RAM for users to store contacts, emails, appointments and web content. Maybe I am out in left field, but the whole java thing has left me yawning for years. No one has been able to explain why J2ME is any different.
Thanks to Chris Coulter for the link.
