Palm IIIx

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Ein PDA von der Firma Palm Computing, herausgebracht in 1999. kostete zwischen 850 und 1000 DM. 2 MB ROM und 8 MB RAM, ein leichter lesbares LCD, Farbe, TFT-Display, 256 Farben, 160x160 Pixel, als Prozessor ein Motorola Dragonball EZ, 20 MHz. Ein neues Hintergrundlicht für den darzustellenden Text. Betriebssystem OS 3.1. Über eine neue Schnittstelle/Slot konnten Erweiterungskarten angeschlossen werden. Der Palm III ist einer der kleinsten Farb-Handheld-Computer auf dem Markt und passt problemlos in eine Tasche oder Handtasche. Ein wiederaufladbarer Lithium-Ionenakku kann bei normaler Verwendung mehr als zwei Wochen im Einsatz bleiben und ist in Ihrer HotSync®-Docking-Station in Minuten wieder aufgeladen. 212 Gramm schwer. The Palm IIIx is a PDA from Palm Computing released in 1999, briefly before the scaled down Palm IIIe was introduced into the marketplace. The Palm IIIx improved upon the Palm III by featuring a new enhanced and easier to read LCD and 4 MB RAM and opposed to the 2 MB in the Palm III. The Palm IIIx also had a 16 MHz Motorola DragonBall EZ CPU that is faster, along with claims to be more efficient, than the 16 MHz Motorola DragonBall CPU found in all previous Palm models. The Palm IIIx featured a new inverse electroluminescent backlight that illuminated the screen text instead of the screen background. This new feature was an area of controversy as many people disliked the feature while many found it to be an improvement. The Palm IIIx shipped with Palm OS 3.1 which including many fixes over the previous version of Palm OS, 3.0. The Palm IIIx also featured an expansion slot inside of its casing. This slot could accommodate a 3rd party upgrade card and expand the Palm IIIx\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s functionality or storage ability. This model suffered from a design defect in its CPU wherein the date would often fail to change at midnight, especially when the batteries were fresh. OS Upgrade - The last Palm OS that can be downloaded off the www.palm.com website is 3.3, however the last OS for the IIIx is 4.1 which had to be bought at the time it came out on CD (now the CDs are discontinued and a bit hard to find). Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_IIIx 50D61BU90250