In retail stores, demand was apparently high. Nope, but you'd better reserve one. The name game is over for 3Com and Microsoft. Go to the ZDNet's PalmPilotUser site. The Palm III adds more memory, a new sleek design and several incremental improvements to the Palm OS operating system, such as a variety of fonts.
Developers also seem more confident in the platform.
Even if others gain market share, the PalmPilot will be a major platform. Increased memory and 3Com's push to help third-party developers will create a large offering of customized services for corporations based on the Palm III, said Bajarin. Yet that puts 3Com in Microsoft's firing line. Indeed, many of Microsoft's current developers will be able to just port their work over to the smaller palm-sized PCs for Windows CE that will be coming out over the next few months, said Roger Gulrajani, manager for Microsoft's PC companion products group. Even so, its past successes gives the PalmPilot the advantage, said Creative Strategies' Bajarin.