Dell's Handheld

trailmaster308trailmaster308
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Well Dell has finally decided to get into the handheld market. The device kinda looks like my old Nomad IIc mp3 player. I don't think they would enter the market if they didn't feel they could either make money or put others out of business first, then make money. Heck seems everyone is in the handheld market except Apple. Maybe someday. I can't find what OS this thing is gonna run, maybe just overlooking something. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

<a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-964475.html"; target="_blank">Dells Handheld</a>



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  • Reply 1 of 11
    dstranathandstranathan Posts: 1,717member
    Question:



    Who climbed into bed to OEM these for Dell?



    I think Dell will ship his basterdized PDA at a SUPER-CHEAP price and forced everyone else to lose $
  • Reply 2 of 11
    composercomposer Posts: 212member
    It's running PocketPC (Windblows Micro-bloat OS)

    From the looks of it I might say HP-Compaq is OEMing it for them. Wouldn't be the weirdest thing. Heck Dell could even start selling iPods!



    -Composer
  • Reply 3 of 11
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    One thing you have to say about Dell is that they are consistent. These are unremarkable and not revolutionary. But Dell is the new IBM; as long as it says Dell, pointy haired bosses will buy them.
  • Reply 4 of 11
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    I really don't understand he anti-Dell whining around here. Dell isn't losing any money, anywhere. What their prices show, to all consumers and the whole industry, is just how overpriced some companies insist on making technology. Especially within the realm of the Windows world, why complain? The entire platform is set up to take advantage of component and commodity parts from the hardware to the OS, that's the way it is. Dell shows what you could easily see by looking at the cost of components, that profits, even on cheap computers are there in abundance for any company that's properly organized to take advantage. Companies are crying because they want to take advantage to an nth degree and milk the consumer in the process. Dell doesn't let that happen, it keeps them honest. I applaud them. As a result most tech companies today have a far easier time bilking their investors than they do consumers. Take the executive board of any top tech company, add all the money they routinely squander in dubious ventures, and reduce the money spent there to reasonable levels and your companies would be instantly profitable. But we have come to accept it as a matter of course that companies with billion dollar revenue streams return a few pitiful millions in actual earnings while they fatten up their executives and their friends. As a consumer I don't give a damn about a companies profit margins, and as an investor I realize that price wars have almost nothing to do with the state of said margins.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    trailmaster308trailmaster308 Posts: 699member
    I am not anit-Dell. In fact all the pc's at my fiance's mom's company (20+ 2 servers) are all Dell's. (I am the Network Admin. for them after my day job) I like that fact that we can get a great deal on them and that they force the rest of the industry to come down on price or get out of the way. And the systems run great. Would be lying if I said otherwise. I think a lot of people are hard on Dell because they are always a step behind on new products, but their company is not about innovating new products like Michael Dell said. He said they innovate on price and in that segment..they can't be beat. So I think they are doing a good job on price innovation.



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  • Reply 5 of 11
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    I'll get back to you when these things start blowing up in people's hands. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
  • Reply 7 of 11
    gordygordy Posts: 1,004member
    Man, it kinda looks like the old Palm III.
  • Reply 8 of 11
    haunebuhaunebu Posts: 40member
    Man, this doesn't have jack to do with future hardware.
  • Reply 9 of 11
    macsrgood4umacsrgood4u Posts: 3,007member
    I don't think HP is making the PDA for them as HP recently pulled out of selling Dell their printers direct. OEM is out of China or Taiwan.
  • Reply 10 of 11
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    [quote]Originally posted by haunebu:

    <strong>Man, this doesn't have jack to do with future hardware.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Except that they haven't been released yet. (Nov. 18 is the day)
  • Reply 11 of 11
    patchoulipatchouli Posts: 402member
    HP doesn't even make their own PDAs, so even if they liked Dell - they wouldn't be supplying them.



    I think it's great that Dell is coming into this market with competitive pricing. This will FORCE the other manufactures to cut prices and narrow their ridiculous and unjustified profit margins on these things.



    I personally think Dell's PDA is a bit ugly, I'd have to see better pics first. Keep an eye out for the upcoming Viewsonic V35. It has everything the iPAQ 3900 series has (including the brilliant back-lit trans-reflective display), for about $350 less.



    Dell's competitive pricing makes the competition lower their prices. This is great for consumers regardless what the product is. You could now get a gorgeous 19" LCD Display from the Dell Store for $719. Yes, it's the same LCD technology that's in the competition (this one happens to be the Samsung SyncMaster 191).



    <a href="http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.asp?customer_id=19&sku=320-0249"; target="_blank">Dell UltraSharp 1900FP, 19" Flat Panel LCD Monitor </a>



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