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Thanks to an agreement between PalmSource and the business Fossil will the Palm OS surface in advanced watches that really small enough be normally the wrist to fit.,. The first prototypes are shown this week in Weld Vegas on the Comdex-purse. The production is in hands of Flextronics, maker of gsm's and the Xbox.

Fossil, that next to watches also sunglasses and fashion-accessoires makes, already single pda's had that the wrists fit. With the Wrist PDA goes the business a step further: not only there were chosen for a many custom pocket computer-OS, the clock gets also an aanraakscherm with a resolution of 160 x 160 pixels with on which via the Graffiti-system text can be imported.,.

The pda-watch makes no use of the newest execution of Palm OS only of version 4.1. Three pressure button and a three positions 'rocker switch' give entry till the positions of the pocket computer. These are also with the mini-stylus to serve, that sit in the watch tie gentegreerd.

Just as on an 'usual' Palm can does the watch also service as a calendar, address book, branch list or memorandum bow. Before the apparatus 2 MB has is till disposition, what a lot less then the present levy Palms. Yet manages the Wrist PDA all Palm-applications, put the makers, already is the actual necessarily that the programs adapted become round with the smaller screen and the administration of the Last Sacraments via the rocker can work. Via a built in infrarode or usb-gate, data can be exchanged with other pocket computers or pda-watches.

The addition of pda-positions and a lcd-screen with a backlight make the Fossil Wrist PDA till a greedy Coolstuff. In contrast till a normal clock, this watch regularly must be loaded up. And with regularly we mean really regularly: the internal lithium-ion battery goes only four days with, by an average use of 30 minutes per day. And that is never pleases then yet as the backlight.

The Wrist PDA with Palm OS will appeared mid 2003 under the brands Fossil and Abacus, also outside the U.S. How much the hebbedingetje goes expenses, is not yet known.