BrightBytes™: Quickoffice, Dell, Master Thief and more
Post by: admin on April 7th, 2009 | File Under Smartphone | Keywords Dell, Device, Handheld, Microsoft, Mobile, OS, Palm, PC, Phone, Pocket, Smartphone, Software, SonyCutting Edge Software has released Quickoffice for Mac, a version of its office suite for the Palm OS that will HotSync with Mac OS X v10.0 and higher. It includes Quickword, a word processing app, Quicksheet, a spreadsheet app, and Quickchart, a charting app. These synchronize with Microsoft Office.
Comments (No responses yet)Dell Axim X5 Pocket PC coming November 18
Post by: admin on April 7th, 2009 | File Under Smartphone | Keywords Axim, Battery, Dell, Handheld, Mobile, OS, Palm, PC, Pocket, SD
Today, The Toronto Globe and Mail has an article in which Anthony Bonadero, director of worldwide mobile products for Dell, talks about his company’s handheld plans. According to The Globe and Mail, Dell will officially announce a low-end and a mid-range handheld running Pocket PC 2002 on November 18. (Dell now has a preview page for its Axim X5 Pocket PC.) Mr. Bonadero also said Dell is considering becoming a Palm OS licensee at some point in the future.
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Dell’s Axim targets the “new HP”
Post by: admin on April 7th, 2009 | File Under Smartphone | Keywords Axim, Dell, Handheld, HP, HTC, iPAQ, MiTAC, OS, PC, Pocket, ROM
In late 2000, the CEO of a small handheld company confided in me that on a recent trip to Taiwan he learned that Dell was seriously contemplating entering the PDA market. If this is true, I thought, it would be big news that would rock the handheld world. Should Dell, which had become a market leader in PCs and servers through direct sales and low prices, enter the fray with a Dell branded handheld, prices would surely drop, as would margins. The implications were enormous.