It's just the government for you...the PPC machines cost more
from Symbol than the Palm machines. And to be quite blunt, the
application they developed would probably work just as effectively
on the Symbol 17x series.
Symbol right now runs WinCE on a good majority of their handheld
devices, and they push it far more in part because of the simplicity
of porting already existing apps from one handheld line to another.
The other part is that they charge more for the PPC handhelds.
However, there are more available configurations of the Palm SPT.
(Like 2D scanning, different memory configurations, etc.) The PPC
PPT systems only come as with or without radio (and believe me, adding
a radio to these REALLY boosts the price up).
-Rus
>
>That's because intel gave 100 million to symbol to "develop"
>the intel line!
>notice that this development money got to the government
>through our friends
>at GSA
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
>Of Stringer
>Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 9:28 AM
>To: Palm Developer Forum
>Subject: Palm for GSA contract
>
>
>My understanding is that Symbol didn't list the 17x0 (Palm OS)
>products on their GSA contract, just the 27x0 (CE) products.
>This creates a strong bias towards CE in the government markets.
>
>Perhaps someone at Palm should take that up with Symbol!
>
>Roger Stringer
>Marietta Systems
>
>>Subject: RE: Palm PDA - Market Share ???
>>From: "Chuck Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 07:47:49 -0600
>>X-Message-Number: 27
>
>>The big market for us with the windows ce devices are wireless symbol
>>devices. Symbol also sells the palm wireless device but the
>government's
>>purchase order is for pocketpc's, not palms. Personally I
>sell and develop
>>10 palmOS- to 1 CE device and with network appliances becoming more
>>understood the palm should gain a stronger audience. Simplicity and
>>reliability is tough to beat.
>
>>Chuck
>
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