Monday, June 24, 2002
Dell close, Handspring next?
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "THOUGHT" @ 01:31 PM
On February the 25th I wrote a post called "Wishful thinking!". I listed five fake news items including this one:
"Dell believes mobile phone market goes corporate - The hardware giant has long stayed away from the mobile device market, but is finally determined to start playing in this growing market. Dell has decided to work with device maker HTC to make their Dell Smartphone 2002. Their strategy is somewhat different from the other mobile phone makers: they will market and sell the devices to corporate accounts only, coupled with server hardware, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Mobile Information Server."
Next stop is a Dell Pocket PC, not Smartphone 2002... Close, anyway. My bet is that the next close shot from that February post will be Handspring and/or Sony doing a Pocket PC.
"Dell believes mobile phone market goes corporate - The hardware giant has long stayed away from the mobile device market, but is finally determined to start playing in this growing market. Dell has decided to work with device maker HTC to make their Dell Smartphone 2002. Their strategy is somewhat different from the other mobile phone makers: they will market and sell the devices to corporate accounts only, coupled with server hardware, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Mobile Information Server."
Next stop is a Dell Pocket PC, not Smartphone 2002... Close, anyway. My bet is that the next close shot from that February post will be Handspring and/or Sony doing a Pocket PC.
