Great Googley Moogley

According to c|net, Dell's forthcoming Pocket PCs will be priced at-- get this-- $199 and $299. For Pocket PC 2002 devices with XScale CPUs (300 MHz and 400 MHz, respectively), transflective screens and 32-64MB of RAM. Oh, and removable batteries. Forget what this will do to HP, this is going to kill any PalmOS device sales more expensive than the Zire. Think about this. $299 for everything the $650 iPAQ 3955 offers, or a 300MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM for $100 less than that. Oh, the humanity!

More Than One Pocket PC Phone Edition in Town

AT&T will be offering the Seimens SX56 with their wireless service. If this device looks familiar, that's because it's exactly the same device as the T-Mobile Pocket PC, or the O2 XDA in Europe. All are made by HTC in Taiwan (anyone remember the cosmonaut in "Armageddon": "American components, Russian components, all made in Taiwan!"), the same company that designed the original iPAQ. This should give American consumers a nice choice of carriers, with T-Mobile and AT&T both carrying the XDA and Sprint using the Audiovox Thera. I'm particularly fond of AT&T's new flat rate voice plan, $99 for unlimited voice calls with free roaming and long distance. Wow!

Last Call for Mobius Questions

I'm leaving in two days for Mobius Redmond 2002. The focus this time is wireless communications technology, notably Pocket PC Phone Editon, Smartphone 2002 and Tablet PC. If anyone has any questions you want me to find answers to while I'm in Redmond, let me know!