New HP Jornadas Announced

[Tim_Reeves]

According to , 2 new Jornadas have just been announced by Hewlett-Packard. The Jornada 525, which comes with 16MB(wha...?) which will retail around $425 US dollars. Also announced was a Jornada 710, which runs the H/PC Pro OS and looks like a miniture laptop(Possibly competition with the Sony Picturebook?). Both are expected to be released in early April<br><br>Personally, I think this WOULD have been a good move my HP IF they made the right units. The HPC is a good Idea, but the 525 sounds like HP wants Entry-Level PDA users to recruit to Pocket Pc. What ever happened to the iPaq killer?<br>Last modification: Tim Reeves - 03/21/01 at 20:12:01

[Dan East]

I hope they have enough sense to put a D-Pad on their next device.<br><br>Dan East

[Moose or Chuck]

Jornadas are meant as a pure business machine. And for business they don't need a D-Pad, a processor more powerful, or much more RAM than 16MB. That would hold all the calendar info for 4+ years, hundreds of contacts, thousands of notes, and a couple word\excel\powerpoint files. My brother thinks he's all swave with his Jornada. Flips up that screen, looks up a contact, then takes out his cell phone that is smaller than the palm of a dogs paw.

[Tim_Reeves]

Looks like your wish will remain ungranted <br>Photo Courtesy of Microsoft<br>Looks like all they did was change the face. Hopefully the screen was made with a different type or something. It looks better than the previous screen, so maybeLast modification: Tim Reeves - 03/22/01 at 12:32:51

[Tim_Reeves]

Oops....my bad;) <br>Correction: The Retail Price of the Jornada 525 is $350 instead of $425...<br><br>Hey, we all make mistakes;)