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If it's this one, I'm gonna crap my pants and fleabay my Maestro 
http://global.acer.com/products/pda/n20.htm
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My new PDA has arrived...Acer sub wins $299 Dell PDA order
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FelixDeCat
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Are PDAs worth the money? I thought about it before, but havent taken the plunge.
Internet access for one of those mofos is pricey. Voicestream (my provider) charges $50 a month for wireless access.
Internet access for one of those mofos is pricey. Voicestream (my provider) charges $50 a month for wireless access.
I heard the new Dell PDAs will be made by Wistron (whoever they are).
I guess you don't have to ebay your Maestro.
I guess you don't have to ebay your Maestro.
Here's a little more on that PDA.
Wistron lands 1.1 million PDA contract from Dell, due out for Christmas
Dell Computer has placed an order with Taiwanese PC contract maker Wistron to produce 1.1 million PDAs (personal digital assistants) for a Christmas-holiday launch, DigiTimes has learned.
Sources familiar with the matter said the device will become available in November at the earliest, with a launch price of US$299. It will run on Microsoft?s Pocket PC software and shares similar, if not the same, features and capabilities as the iPAQ, the best-selling Pocket PC-based PDA from Hewlett-Packard (HP), they said.
Wistron was the contract-manufacturing unit of Acer before being spun off last year and makes a wide range of computer hardware from desktop systems to servers.
An earlier Dow Jones report, citing a US analyst, said Taiwan-based Compal Electronics had made the deal, but DigiTimes learned that it was not the case. Wistron came out as the winner after Compal, along with Mitac Technology and High Tech Computer (HTC), withdrew from bidding in June.
Despite Dell?s stature in the PC space and the contract?s large size, the bidders said they gave up out of cost concerns. The US computer giant demanded a unit contract price of roughly US$170, which would barely cover material costs for a baseline Pocket PC and 20% lower than what it takes to produce an iPAQ on contract, they said.
That suggests that Wistron, in making the iPAQ-like PDA for Dell, will likely lose money or at the very best eke out a strenuous profit.
?It takes a lot of guts for Wistron to take the order,? said one bidder, noting that Wistron will face immense pressure to develop the PDA to meet the tight shipment deadline, requiring a perfect coordination of parts procurement and production.
Dell has allegedly committed full support to Wistron to have the PDA out in time, sources said. Wistron will use an existing handheld design for Chinese clients and make modifications on the appearance and features, they added.
Wistron lands 1.1 million PDA contract from Dell, due out for Christmas
Dell Computer has placed an order with Taiwanese PC contract maker Wistron to produce 1.1 million PDAs (personal digital assistants) for a Christmas-holiday launch, DigiTimes has learned.
Sources familiar with the matter said the device will become available in November at the earliest, with a launch price of US$299. It will run on Microsoft?s Pocket PC software and shares similar, if not the same, features and capabilities as the iPAQ, the best-selling Pocket PC-based PDA from Hewlett-Packard (HP), they said.
Wistron was the contract-manufacturing unit of Acer before being spun off last year and makes a wide range of computer hardware from desktop systems to servers.
An earlier Dow Jones report, citing a US analyst, said Taiwan-based Compal Electronics had made the deal, but DigiTimes learned that it was not the case. Wistron came out as the winner after Compal, along with Mitac Technology and High Tech Computer (HTC), withdrew from bidding in June.
Despite Dell?s stature in the PC space and the contract?s large size, the bidders said they gave up out of cost concerns. The US computer giant demanded a unit contract price of roughly US$170, which would barely cover material costs for a baseline Pocket PC and 20% lower than what it takes to produce an iPAQ on contract, they said.
That suggests that Wistron, in making the iPAQ-like PDA for Dell, will likely lose money or at the very best eke out a strenuous profit.
?It takes a lot of guts for Wistron to take the order,? said one bidder, noting that Wistron will face immense pressure to develop the PDA to meet the tight shipment deadline, requiring a perfect coordination of parts procurement and production.
Dell has allegedly committed full support to Wistron to have the PDA out in time, sources said. Wistron will use an existing handheld design for Chinese clients and make modifications on the appearance and features, they added.
Originally posted by: NFS4
If it's this one, I'm gonna crap my pants and fleabay my Maestro
http://global.acer.com/products/pda/n20.htm
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