Friday, January 10, 2003
Handheld PC - RIP?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 11:00 AM
http://jornada720club.blogspot.com/
Handheld Addict is reporting that the last Handheld PC, or HPC, has been dropped. "According to undisclosed sources, the Jornada 728 has now been officially discontinued. I know that many of you have emailed in to say that your local electrical stores have limited stock. It's a real shame and at the moment there seems to be no official word of any sort of replacement.- Sammual (webmaster)"
I am sorry to see this happen. I looked very seriously at a Jornada 600 series back in 1998 but opted for the PDA form factor with a Nino 320 and never regretted it. It just seems no matter what the OS, these small clamshell embedded OS devices just don't last. Psion has given up entirely on the market and HP was the last offering the CE based Handheld PC 2000 operating system to consumers. The 728 was a mild freshening of the 720 first offered in the fall of 2000.
Given the success of the Pocket PC and the total disinterest in the Handheld PC by the public, I don't see MS or OEMs spending any more resources on the HPC devices. I guess people either want more pocketability with a PDA device or more features with a notebook that a full version of Windows on it.
Handheld Addict is reporting that the last Handheld PC, or HPC, has been dropped. "According to undisclosed sources, the Jornada 728 has now been officially discontinued. I know that many of you have emailed in to say that your local electrical stores have limited stock. It's a real shame and at the moment there seems to be no official word of any sort of replacement.- Sammual (webmaster)"
I am sorry to see this happen. I looked very seriously at a Jornada 600 series back in 1998 but opted for the PDA form factor with a Nino 320 and never regretted it. It just seems no matter what the OS, these small clamshell embedded OS devices just don't last. Psion has given up entirely on the market and HP was the last offering the CE based Handheld PC 2000 operating system to consumers. The 728 was a mild freshening of the 720 first offered in the fall of 2000.
Given the success of the Pocket PC and the total disinterest in the Handheld PC by the public, I don't see MS or OEMs spending any more resources on the HPC devices. I guess people either want more pocketability with a PDA device or more features with a notebook that a full version of Windows on it.
