Major New Palm Product Announcement Tomorrow!By
Tadd Rosenfeld
7 L" R# N: |2 {% k2 ~5 k, pTreo and PalmOS newsTuesday, May 29, 2007
9 w& p$ t- t3 o1 E4 Q) M5 IOver the past several years, Palm has secretly been developing a new class of product, to add to its existing PDA and smartphone lines. The new category will be announced by Palm founder Jeff Hawkins at a financial conference in California tomorrow.
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Why is this so exciting? Because the new "toy" is being brought to us by the same geniuses who developed the original Palm Pilot and convergent smartphone. When the original Palm Pilot was released, handwriting recognition technology was in its nascent stages. Other early mobile devices like the Apple Newton failed to gain traction because engineers could not train devices to learn millions of variations of individual handwriting styles sufficiently well. Palm taught its users a single style called Graffiti, and in doing so gave us the first truly usable and widely accepted PDA.
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