As mentioned on DealNews, DealExpress has the Palm V Portable Keyboard for $9. If you still have an ancient Palm V (like I do), you’re not going to find a much better price on the Palm Portable Keyboard.
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Palm and Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Cooperation
From Palm InfoCenter, Palm and Sony Ericsson have annouced their plans for Bluetooth interoperability:
The two companies plan to work closely together to enable out-of-the-box compatibility between Bluetooth-enabled Sony Ericsson mobile phones and Palm Powered handhelds. Users of future Bluetooth-enabled products will be able to more easily access information, entertainment, and communicate across a wide variety of devices — without cumbersome cords and wires.
For example, a user could select a phone number from a Palm Powered handheld device and have it automatically dialed on the SonyEricsson mobile phone — via the Bluetooth wireless technology. […]
Now that’s cool. I suppose I may just be buying a Sony Ericsson for my next mobile phone ;).
New Models from Palm!
From PalmInfoCenter, Palm is releasing three new models next month! One is a low-end model (just 2MB RAM), one is a smartphone, but the third is probably of most interest:
According to rumor, it will be named the Tungsten. It will use a Texas Instruments OMAP1510 processor, which combines into a single chip an ARM-compliant processor with a DSP for multimedia capabilities, and runs at 175 MHz. It will have 16 MB of RAM.
Palm OS 5 has multimedia support built into it and, according to anonymous sources, the Tungsten takes full advantage of it. It has a microphone, headphone jack, and a speaker. […]
And, of course, it’ll also run at 320x320 (as opposed to the current Palms that only support 160x160). This might just be a worthy upgrade to my Palm Vx :).
Nine Free 2002 Hugo Nominee eBooks
Fictionwise has now released six 2002 Hugo nominated works as free eBooks (for your Palm or other PDA). And, each link link below includes a book-excerpt, so you can get a feel for the book before downloading it. The free eBooks include:
- “Fast Times at Fairmont High” by Vernor Vinge
- “May Be Some Time” by Brenda Clough
- “Lobsters” by Charlie Stross
- “The Curse of Chalion” (Extended Excerpt) by Lois McMaster Bujold
- “Hell is the Absence of God” by Ted Chiang
- “Old MacDonald had a Farm” by Mike Resnick
- “Undone” by James Patrick Kelly
- “The Return of Spring” by Shane Tourtellotte
- “The Days Between” by Allen Steele
“The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious literary awards available and are presented annually by the World Science Fiction Society”. Thanks to PalmStation for the heads-up on this one.
And, if Josh reads this, hopefully he can enlighten me as to the proper means of citing books. For instance, I used double-quotes around the titles, but that was mostly an educated guess ;).