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...Katie, my daughter, overrides the "I'm in a virtual meeting" message on my video visor. She's ticked. Sam, her clone, has been teasing...
...sales wither and dotcoms disappear, handheld-computer makers are enjoying a rather solitary spring fling. Just look at the flurry of new-product announcements in the past few weeks. From Handspring's razor-thin Visor Edge to a new memory-packed Compaq iPaq, a major upgrade has been trumpeted by nearly every PDA maker. Here's why: last year nearly 10 million PDAs were sold worldwide, almost double the number for 1999, according to research firm Gartner Dataquest. By 2004, the firm anticipates that everyone from executives to hairdressers will buy some 33 million PDAs, generating nearly $8 billion...
Palm licensee Handspring has captured nearly 30% of U.S. retail PDA sales in the 12 months since its Visor line hit the shelves. The colorful, inexpensive devices were the first with expansion slots that allow users to add anything from a digital camera to an MP3 player--in effect to customize their PDAs. Co-founders Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins created the original PalmPilot before leaving Palm to start Handspring...
Call me old-fashioned, but I've never been seduced by the charms of electronic organizers. I know that everyone these days--from schoolkids to go-go executives--is packing a Palm, a Visor or a PocketPC. I know the devices now come in more colors than a Benetton window display. And I know that I could use a little more order in my life. But as long as they cost $300 (on average) and weighed in at half a pound, personal digital assistants, as they're called, always seemed too expensive and too heavy...
...there are at least half a dozen pocket-size devices on the market designed to mimic the in-car experience. I've been fooling around with two: the eTrex Legend ($249, from Garmin), which fits in your pocket; and the Geode ($290, from Geodiscovery), which plugs into a Handspring Visor...