Thursday, November 23, 2006
Palm, Inc.'s Next Big Project
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/11/jeff-hawkins-secret-project-is-coming.html
"Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, gave a talk this morning. Afterward I asked him if we'll see next year the secret project that Jeff Hawkins has been working on. "Yes," he said, and moved immediately to another question. Very little information has been released publicly about the Hawkins project. I know a number of very bright people at Palm moved to work on it, more than a year ago. Hawkins himself has dropped cryptic hints about something that would start a new category of devices, alongside handhelds and smartphones. I know some developers have been shown pre-release versions of the product, and the reactions were mixed. But nobody's discussing what the device actually is."
Hawkins mentioned this well over a year ago, and some speculated that it was the Palm LifeDrive, which turned out to be a major disappointment as a product line. So, whatever this mysterious third product line is, the first being the original Palm line of PDAs and the second being the Treo line of converged devices. Any guesses as to what this third generation of product will be? The only thing we know is it will be a mobile device of some sort.
"Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, gave a talk this morning. Afterward I asked him if we'll see next year the secret project that Jeff Hawkins has been working on. "Yes," he said, and moved immediately to another question. Very little information has been released publicly about the Hawkins project. I know a number of very bright people at Palm moved to work on it, more than a year ago. Hawkins himself has dropped cryptic hints about something that would start a new category of devices, alongside handhelds and smartphones. I know some developers have been shown pre-release versions of the product, and the reactions were mixed. But nobody's discussing what the device actually is."
Hawkins mentioned this well over a year ago, and some speculated that it was the Palm LifeDrive, which turned out to be a major disappointment as a product line. So, whatever this mysterious third product line is, the first being the original Palm line of PDAs and the second being the Treo line of converged devices. Any guesses as to what this third generation of product will be? The only thing we know is it will be a mobile device of some sort.
