Quickies: Palm Toy, Clié Battery, Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted By: As Listed Saturday, August 18, 2001 11:28:08 AM

HandAble.com has run across something perfect for people whose kids always want to play with their handheld. Palm has teamed up with CDI Toys to produce a Palm-branded toy (it doesn't do anything but make noise and make a little kid think they have a real one). It's not listed on the CDI Toys site. -Bradly Barton

AsiaBizTech did some tests and found out that the Sony N710C has far and way the best battery life of any handheld capable of playing MP3s and movies, beating the iPaq, Cassiopeia E-700, and several others. -AriB

Fictionwise.com has secured electronic rights to seven works by leading science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin, many of them award winners. None of Le Guin’s works have ever before been available in eBook format. -Scott Pendergrast

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No duh!

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2001 11:54:26 AM #
Pocket PC's are terrible with battery life, especially when playing media!

RE: No duh!
Altema @ 8/19/2001 9:01:32 PM #
What? The Pocket PC battery life is fine! Why, I've had mine running for a couple of hours now, and... aww nuts!

Ursula LeGuin

Don @ 8/18/2001 1:55:44 PM #
I suspect that the phrase "any of the award winners" is really a typo for "many of them aware winners."


RE: Ursula LeGuin
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2001 2:33:15 PM #
You mean "award" -- not aware -- winners.

RE: Ursula Le Guin
Ed @ 8/18/2001 2:54:30 PM #
Yes, I was trying to say "many of them award winners". In the middle of writing that I learned Handspring had just dropped all their prices and I just wanted to get this finished as quickly as possible. It's also a classic example of how a spell checker can fail you. Two mistakes in a short phrase but no misspellings. Anyway, thanks for pointing it out.

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Palm Multimedia

rcockx @ 8/18/2001 2:39:28 PM #
Ok, Palm has beaten them all: two days ago they buy Be to expand their multimedia capabilities. What do we see today? A new Palm model that makes sounds ;-) Is that quick or what? Oh yeah, they also seem to have a deal with AOL: it says 'You've got mail' on the box ;-)

It's scary when the toy Palm can do more sound than the real

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2001 3:08:10 PM #
one.

RE: It's scary when the toy Palm can do more sound than the real
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/19/2001 4:15:42 AM #
funny!

RE: It's scary when the toy Palm can do more sound than the real
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/19/2001 8:58:46 PM #
And when the toy Palm has almost as much software as PPC!

This is completley stupid, but.....

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2001 3:54:50 PM #
Does the m100 on there have a color screen? That would be a cool palm.

RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2001 4:31:02 PM #
Click on the picture for a bigger one, IT DOES HAVE A COLOR SCREEN! ahahhaahahhaaa

RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2001 4:34:12 PM #
I'm wondering how big it is. I mean, could you take the guts out of that and stick your real m10x's guts into it? that would be nifty. Hot pink, sure. But nifty nonetheless.
On a similar note, if I had an m10x, I'd get this just for that amazing pink case with a bow. Yowza!

RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/18/2001 5:05:09 PM #
http://shop.brando.com.hk/image/m100colorset62.jpg

You can already make your Palm m10x hot pink, courtesy of the fine folks at Brando.

RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
Smaug @ 8/19/2001 4:11:10 AM #
Is there no god?

RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/19/2001 12:27:08 PM #
There is a god, he just occasionally has a wacky sense of humor (look at our President).

RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/19/2001 6:19:41 PM #
I'm the one who sent the picture in.. my 6 year old daughter got this as a gift since her 11 year old brother recently saved up his pennies and bought an m105 for himself...

Yes, this toy is about the same size as the m100. I suppose if you were really feeling adventurous, you could switch the "guts".. but that's not a job I'd want. :)

The hot pink carrying case will fit the m10x series as well... but I can't convince an 11 year old boy to use it!

OT
Ed @ 8/20/2001 9:13:05 AM #
This entire conversation about the relative merits of President George Bush is clearly off topic and so has been removed. There is a thread about his, including numerous Bushisms, in the Off Topic area of the Forums.

www.palminfocenter.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=779&FORUM_ID=33&CAT_ID=1

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RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/20/2001 11:36:29 AM #
Thanks for the link! PalmInfocenter rules Ed!

RE: This is completley stupid, but.....
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/20/2001 1:14:50 PM #
Palm toy is kinda off topic from the whole theme of palminfocenter, can't we just have a little fun in a place most people actually go to?

Just Pink?

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/20/2001 7:32:30 AM #
Does the Palm Toy come in just pink?

RE: Just Pink?
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/20/2001 11:23:03 AM #
The box shows a purple one, as well.. my sister said she found it at Wal-mart, but also saw it at Target.

RE: Just Pink?
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/20/2001 4:06:52 PM #
A coworker said there are pink and purple ones at Target locally. Bought on of the pink ones and brought it in. It makes cool sounds and would be fun for young kids.

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