Plus it should do all the other stuff you've come to expect from the Palm PDA, including managing contacts, schedules and to-do lists.
But as yet the Garmin unit is the only Palm-based PDA to include integrated GPS capability.
Sony's latest Palm OS-based PDA cuts out a few features, but also trims its price.
To diversify further away, earlier this year HP acquired Palm, the proprietary PDA-smartphone maker, to launch its own-branded smartphones, effectively competing directly against Nokia, Apple, Motorola, Samsung and Dell.
For this particular Personal Massager, the selling point is its interface with the Handspring Visor, a competitor to Palm's own PDA. The Visor's familiar interface in theory gives the device more flexibility than what the company refers to as more "conventional" devices, allowing the user to program the device more easily than would otherwise be possible.
There's little reason for new vendors to try and tackle the general-purpose PDA, as Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) and Sony have that market--at least as far as the Palm OS world is concerned--to themselves, while Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) has been producing Palm OS devices that double as phones.
And that's why LG Electronics , Samsung's nearest competitor, also based in South Korea, probably won't follow suit with its own Palm-based, phone-PDA combination device.
In Japan, where Palm and other U.S. PDA makers have failed to gain a large market share, Sony will be positioning the Clie as an accessory for the audio-visual or entertainment-conscious consumer while the U.S. market is more focused on its use as a work tool.
But LG's forthcoming TM910 Smartphone contains a PDA that looks suspiciously like a Palm device--but isn't.
But revenue at Palm, which even bought Handspring (another struggling PDA maker), still shrank.
This new wrist PDA could solve that problem by keeping a second copy of your Palm address book or schedule on your wrist.
When Psion was no longer the top dog in the PDA, it did not fade away while everyone else bought Nokia Communicators and Palm Treos, it simply became such a small percentage of the market, and was no longer relevant.
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Concerned that a Palm license would force its phone into a higher price bracket, LG has developed its own PDA software.
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