3Com Debuts Special Edition Palm Computing Organizers for Holiday Season.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- Company Reduces Prices On Full Line of Connected Organizers, Lowers Entry-Level Palm(TM) IIIe Organizer to $179 and Introduces Accessory Pack Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), today announced immediate U.S. availability of two new limited edition connected organizers for the holiday season, the Palm Vx(TM) Special Edition and Palm IIIe The Palm IIIe is a PDA from Palm Computing released in 1999 briefly after the more expensive and more advanced Palm IIIx. It shared the same screen as the Palm IIIx, which improved upon the Palm III's screen by featuring a new enhanced and easier to read LCD. (TM) Special Edition products. 3Com also reduced estimated street prices on the full line of award-winning Palm Computing(R) organizers and introduced a set of brightly-colored translucent flip covers for the Palm III The Palm III was the first PDA in the Palm III lineup and is also Palm Computing's first handheld to support infrared file transfer and a Flash ROM capable operating system. The first Palm IIIs went on sale in 1998. (TM) organizer family products. The Palm Vx Special Edition organizer is new addition to the company's popular slim-line Palm V(TM) family with extra memory, making it ideal for power users who work with data-intensive applications or require access to large reference databases. The Palm IIIe Special Edition organizer is a clear-case version of the Palm IIIe product for students, families and entry-level users. "As 3Com leads the growing proliferation of handheld organizers among consumer and enterprise users, we recognize that c Computing. "These special edition products arelout of the highly-anticipated Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. product, our expanded Fall lineup of Palm organizers offers a solution for everyone." Palm Vx Special Edition The Palm Vx Special Edition organizer has an estimated street price of $449 and is available today in the U.S. only thro, making it ideal for professionals for whom ulnchronization speed and allows users to synchronestimated street price of $179 and featuring a he product's clear plastic casing allows viewing of the inside of the device while providing the same featurnction with this offering, 3Com has introduced a new accessory kit that includes three Palm III organizer famackage is available for $12.95. The Palm IIIe Suting Family of Organizers 3Com today rech has been reduced to a nationwide introductory price of $499, down from $599 at the product's regional rollout in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of metropolitan tri-state area There are a number of places in the United States known as tri-state areas where three states or holdings meet at one point (a tripoint), or in proximity to each other. The two most well-known are for the New York and Chicago metropolitan areas. last May. For more details on Palm Computing platform See platform. product availability, please visit www.palm.com. "Our goal is to make handheld computing ubiquitous," added Connell. "To do that, we know we need to continue to delight our customers, offering products with the right features at a very competitive prices." More than 18,000 third-party developers have signed up to create hardware and software add-ons for the more than 4 million users of Palm Computing platform products. 3Com's Palm Computing products currently hold a 73 percent share of the personal companion market in the U.S., according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. International Data Corp. (May, 1999). About 3Com With over 300 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products, and residential connectivity and network system solutions to customers including enterprises, small businesses, carriers and network service providers. 3Com - More connected.(TM) For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at http://www.3com.com/ or the press site at http://www.3com.com/pressbox/. Note To Editors: 3Com, HotSync, Palm OS and Palm Computing are registered trademarks, and Palm, Palm III, Palm IIIe, Palm IIIx 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 V, Palm Vx, Palm VII, and More connected are trademarks of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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