We are beginning to see a healthy set of contenders for the space between the laptop and the PDA. The segment is being validated. Any of these could be the core of a wearable. Sony is the latest entrant (http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Product/U/index.html) to ship in Japan 5/29/04. English version unknown. TIQUIT is still in the looking for a customer stage (http://www.tiqit.com/) FlipStart (http://minipc.vulcan.com/default.asp) will ship in the US in January, 2005 Antelope (http://www.antelopetech.com/en/index.aspx) has been shipping for several months now - Enterprise Evaluation Kits only The ARCHOS AV500 (http://www.archos.com/press/press_releases/archos_cebit2004.180304.en.p df) will ship by the end of the year. And OQO (http://www.oqo.com/) in 2nd half 2004 It will be an interesting 6-12 months to see if all the promises can be kept. They all focus on slightly different sets of features. Chuck "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated." Poul Anderson -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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