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I spoke with Dale Newbauer of CBX Technologies today. He
has been in touch with the HP product managers. While they are
discontinuing the HP Journada 568, 565, and 548 in favor of the iPAQ, they are
continuing with the HP Journada 720 (with expanded memory) in the form of the HP
Journda 728. This product is being announced June 1. June 4 there is
an HP show in San Jose I can attend if anyone thinks it would help to get
further info on this. Should we order up a 728 to look at it. There
apparently is no COMPAQ competing version in this area.
With November coming, what is our approach here as a
company? Are we supporting the Journada, looking for something else,
developing our own unit?? If anything is happening for November, we would
need to determine what we are doing now. If not, what are
we doing to fix the Spyrus issues. From emails it seems obvious that
counties are looking for alternative solutions to the Spyrus, but I'm not
hearing anything from DESI on a direction.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 4:33
PM
Subject: HP phasing out Jornada
I came across this today
while fetching some development tools for the PCC project off the ‘Net. The relevant part
reads:
Smart
Handhelds
Decision: The Compaq iPAQ™ Pocket PC, re-named the HP iPAQ Pocket PC, will
be our smart handheld platform. The best of the current HP Jornada technology
will be engineered into the platform. Jornada
products will be phased out of the market in 2002. HP will continue to innovate in wireless,
mobility and voice technology. HP also will
offer the iPAQ Blackberry device for end-to-end
wireless e-mail solutions, under the HP
brand.
As many of you probably know,
Compaq merged with HP recently, and as a result are restructuring their
product lines. We don’t yet know
what “the best of the HP Jornada technology” means
yet. Hopefully it means a
clamshell form factor with a smart card reader. Unfortunately, iPaq
doesn’t have any product like that at the moment. The name “Pocket PC” is not
encouraging, since that usually implies a palm-held device. We’ll keep you informed as we learn
more. In the mean time, it looks
like the NEC MobliePro 790 is our only
alternative.
Ken
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