Pen Computing Daily News Archives, October 16, 2001

ART has signed a new licensing agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe (METE) that enables METE to integrate ART's smARTspeak family of speech recognition solutions into METE's new Eclipse and Sirius mobile phones (part of the Trium family of phones).

The Sceptre X Pad 100 is a new mobile slate handheld that runs Windows CE 3.0 and is powered by a Intel StrongARM 1110 processor. It also is configured with a 10.4" TFT (SVGA) built-in touch screen; and can support up to 128-MBs of SDRAM, IBM Microdrives, and a desktop cradle.

Xplore Technologies has announced a new ruggedized pen tablet mobile computer called GeneSys Maximus that has been engineered to work in direct sunlight. Other key features: 12.1" Active Matrix Color Transflective LCD; base-model weight of 5.0-lb.; 500-MHz Intel Pentium III processor; certified to MIL-STD 810-F standards; maximum of 256-MBs RAM; 20-GB HD; and uses smart Lithium-Ion battery technologies.

October 15, 2001


Handspring today introduces their second line of PDAs, the Treo 180 series of cell phones. Coming initially in two monochrome models, the Treo 180 and 180g, the units feature a flip lid and are small in size. The primary departure from the Palm OS norm is the inclusion of a RIM-style keyboard on the Treo 180 instead of the usual Graffiti area. The 180g will have the Graffiti area. See our preview here.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)