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Palm Handhelds Get Major Memroy Boost to 128MB

By Palm Boulevard
April 17, 2003

The Palm Solutions Group today announced a major breakthrough for Palm OS handhelds, the ability for those devices to support a seven fold increase in memory from the current 16MB to 128MB of RAM.

"The range of potential next-generation hardware and software solutions expands tremendously with this innovation from Palm Solutions engineers," said Steve Manser, senior vice president of product development for Palm Solutions Group. "Our memory advance means customers can be confident they'll have what they need to deploy robust business applications or rich multimedia."

According to the company, the memory breakthrough has been incorporated into the Palm OS by PalmSource. Expect this announcement to give Palm a boost in its competition against the Pocket PC. Though it dominates the PDA market, a maximum of 16MB of memory began to appear a bit dated when compared to Pocket PCs that offered two to four times that amount of RAM.

We'll be sure to let you know when the first devices that take advantage of the increased memory capacities are announced.

 
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There's never enough memory !
I reckon even if the device memory were to be further increased, users like me will still always relish putting a memory card plugged in always... just think of 1GB, 2GB cards tomorrow... ...more

Submitted by: Vanil



Nice, but do keep the cost down
I'd say it's about time as well. I've got a Visor and it's kinda annoying to have to keep a 16MB flash mem card constantly plugged in for my games (the bulk of my stuff). Furthermore, certain large apps like dictionaries, other references, and game...more

Submitted by: ackmondual



Finally! When?! When?! When?!
Finally! I am an R.N. and have many, many programs on my pda. Allthough PowerRun works great I am so tired of going back and forth from the memory stick to open up and run programs. My pda recently crashed on me while I was trying to upload more p...more

Submitted by: Pam



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