HP Jornada 548

A new handheld to get your palms onto

By J. W. Dysart Aug 01, 2000

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Undoubtedly cranky about Palm’s dominance in thehandheld PC market, Hewlett Packardhas fired back with a formidable response: the HP Jornada 548($599). Sporting 32MB RAM, a 133 MHz 32-bit Hitachi processor andeight hours of battery life, Jornada’s distinguishingcharacteristics are its brilliant color-display panel and itsability to offer relatively robust multimedia capability. It alsoruns on Microsoft’s new PocketPC operating system, whichpromises seamless compatibility with existing Microsoft software.Definitely worth a test drive.













J.W. Dysart, asoftware analyst and Internet business consultant, has writtenfor
more than 40 publications, including
The New York Timesand The Financial Times of London. He is also a columnistfor our sister publication, Business
Start-Ups.

Undoubtedly cranky about Palm’s dominance in thehandheld PC market, Hewlett Packardhas fired back with a formidable response: the HP Jornada 548($599). Sporting 32MB RAM, a 133 MHz 32-bit Hitachi processor andeight hours of battery life, Jornada’s distinguishingcharacteristics are its brilliant color-display panel and itsability to offer relatively robust multimedia capability. It alsoruns on Microsoft’s new PocketPC operating system, whichpromises seamless compatibility with existing Microsoft software.Definitely worth a test drive.













J.W. Dysart, asoftware analyst and Internet business consultant, has writtenfor
more than 40 publications, including
The New York Timesand The Financial Times of London. He is also a columnistfor our sister publication, Business
Start-Ups.

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