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Treo 600 Phone/PDA (GSM) by PalmOne:

The first PDA/phone released by PalmOne by the end of 2003 - as a new company- after they acquired Handspring in mid-2003 and splintered the original company, Palm, Inc into two separate entities: PalmOne (hardware) and PalmSource (software). While most of the technologies in this PDA/phone came from Handspring, PalmOne leveraged the PalmOS software to come up with a much robust gadget --one that can handle more apps and newer devices.

Noticeable changes were the enhanced multimedia capabilities of the 'newer' Palm 5.x.x OS that came with the Treo 600 as well as the introduction of a SD (SecureDigital) card slot in the unit to expand its memory capability -- for any multimedia applications that may require more than the 32MB (actually, only 24MB can be use as storage since 8MB is utilized by the Palm OS) that's built-in.

Other features that separate it from its predecessors -the Treo 270 and Treo 300- were: a built-in camera (a paltry 0.3 megapixel at 640 x 480 resolution), stereo sound, a brighter screen (CSTN) and a totally-redesigned keyboard layout which saw the addition of a 5-way navigation keys that was located higher in the new layout. The flip-cover was also done away with to give the unit a more polished, professional look. Size is approx: 4.5" x 2.25" x 0.75" (L x W x thickness).

And, perhaps, more importantly, the Treo 600 was the one product that enabled PalmOne to become profitable again, as a company, after it saw its market leadership greatly diminished in the 'pure' PDA market...due to encroachment of the big cell phone makers such as Nokia, Motorola, Siemens/Sony and others in the rapidly-expanding, convergent PDA/phone market.

NOTE: In late 2004, the new Treo 650 was released by PalmOne to showcase the new features of version 5.4 of its 'Garnet' (Palm OS 5.x) operating system.

Apple G4 iBook (Snow):

Maybe, among the last of the original iBook breeds that run on IBM's PowerPC processors before Apple shifts to Intel processors in 2006, this snow-colored G4 (at 933 MHz) with a bus speed of 133 MHz, came with a slot for the faster AirPort card, called, 'AirPort Extreme' (aka, 802.11 a/b/g). Other changes from the original iBooks of the late 90s were: a 'slot-loading' CD-RW/DVD (Combo drive), provision for Bluetooth, gigabit Ethernet, V.92-capable internal modem (USB-bus) and a port for connecting either an external, conventional VGA or an ADC monitor.

Gone were the handle (seen in the 'clamshell' models) as well as the 'longish' lithium battery pack. Instead, Apple went for the more compact but higher 6-cell lithium pack. This was complement by a smaller, more functional and similarly-colored power adapter. Also, very helpful status indicator lights -including the 'Apple logo' were added to indicate battery charging status, in use or in hibernate mode.

Other specs are: 1024 x 768 screen resolution powered by ATI's Mobility Radeon 9200 chip (with 32 MB VRAM and an AGP bus); 40 GB (Fujitsu) ATA HD at 5400 rpm; 128 MB of DDR-SODIMM (PC2100) built-in with an extra slot that supports up to 1 GB (hence, max of 1.12 GB of RAM); USB 2.0; FireWire (at 400 Mb/sec) and a Texas Instruments-based stereo-capable sound chip.

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