PalmSource: " there is need at cheap pdas"
The present levy pocket computers is too expensive and contain too much positions. That finds David Nail, head of the business PalmSource, responsibly for the operating system that on Palms turns. There is pressing need at something news the market more life in to blow, says he in an article of the vakblad EETimes.
Just as other hardware manufacturers experience also makers of pda's that the sale stagnates. Nail thinks that that many to make has with the high price of the most pocket computers. He praised that a gsm with pda-positions that less then 200 dollars expense, the manner is men back to the stores to entice.
Notably is that Nails a lot of welfare sees in hybrid apparatuses, while PalmOS uses becomes especially in 'pure' pda's. Already that is coming source change in. As Samsung proposed single months ago a smartphone on base of the Palm-operating system.
The PalmSource-senior official closes self with its comment at with recent pronunciations of analysts of IDC. Also they suspect that gsm-pda-combinations as the Sony Ericsson P800 good will score. There is but a problem: all 'clever' telephones that are currently available expenses hundred Euros.