Monday, April 1, 2002
Compaq launches Symbian-based iPAQ
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 09:09 AM
http://www.compaq.com/showroom/handhelds.html
I always thought this day would come, so this doesn't come as that much of a surprise. What DOES surprise me, however, is that I hadn't heard a peep about this until now, and didn't see it at CeBit: Compaq is launching an iPAQ running the Symbian OS. Details are sketchy at this point, but it appears to have the same body as the 3800 series (I could only find one photo), will have 64 megs of RAM, and most exciting of all: 400 mHz XScale processor!
There are a lot of things that I find tempting about the Symbian OS, so I'm really looking forward to evaluating one of these things. I guess I'd better go register Symbianthoughts.com! :-) I also have a larger version available. The URL above goes to the Compaq web page, where I'm told that by noon MST today they'll have the details about this device up. Kudos to Compaq for being so secretive about this!
UPDATE: April Fools Day! :-)
I always thought this day would come, so this doesn't come as that much of a surprise. What DOES surprise me, however, is that I hadn't heard a peep about this until now, and didn't see it at CeBit: Compaq is launching an iPAQ running the Symbian OS. Details are sketchy at this point, but it appears to have the same body as the 3800 series (I could only find one photo), will have 64 megs of RAM, and most exciting of all: 400 mHz XScale processor!
There are a lot of things that I find tempting about the Symbian OS, so I'm really looking forward to evaluating one of these things. I guess I'd better go register Symbianthoughts.com! :-) I also have a larger version available. The URL above goes to the Compaq web page, where I'm told that by noon MST today they'll have the details about this device up. Kudos to Compaq for being so secretive about this!
UPDATE: April Fools Day! :-)
