The Next Generation of Palms Has Arrived!Powered by the new Palm OS[R] 4.0, the new m500 and m505 are built for the future and packed with extras The Palm m500 series The Palm m500 series of handheld personal digital assistants consisted of three devices: the Palm m500, Palm m505, and Palm m515. The series was a follow-up to the popular Palm V series with a similar, though slightly shorter, footprint and form factor. offers the next generation of premium handhelds from Palm, based on the award-winning design of the Palm[TM] V series. Both the m500 and m505 include the same sleek styling and new expansion features. While the Palm m500 handheld uses a high-contrast monochrome display with a new, more readable background, the Palm m505's new 16-bit color display provides support for more than 65,000 colors for a richer color experience. The Palm m500 and m505 include all the classic personal information management tools you expect, plus software that lets users read and edit e-mail, Word and Excel files, browse web content offline, read e-books, and view video clips and images. In addition, the included Palm Mobile Connectivity software lets you send and receive e-mail and short messages (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ), or browse the web, with a modem or data-enabled mobile phone. The Palm m500 series handhelds come with 8MB of memory, more than enough capacity to store thousands of addresses, years of appointments, hundreds of to-do items, notes, memos, and e-mails, with space available for 50 or more additional applications. SD and MultiMedia Card -- Small, Flexible and Cost-effective Palm's postage-stamp-size expansion slot A receptacle inside a computer or other electronic system that accepts a printed circuit board. The number of slots determines future expansion. See PC data buses. (hardware) expansion slot - A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. offers plug-and-play use of the industry's smallest expansion formats: SD and MultiMediaCard. The expansion cards, which range from 8MB to 256MB, can be easily carried and inserted in the expansion slot for instant access to applications, content, data storage and backup, images, video clips and more. Because of the broad acceptance of SD and the MultiMediaCard, the cards can be shared among a variety of consumer electronics products as well, such as printers, digital cameras and MP3 players. Like Palm, more than 200 companies, including Panasonic, Toshiba and SanDisk, have committed to supporting the SD card standard for use in multiple consumer products. Palm m500 series handhelds use rechargeable re·charge tr.v. re·charged, re·charg·ing, re·charg·es To charge again, especially to reenergize a storage battery. re lithium-ion polymer batteries Lithium-ion polymer batteries, or more commonly lithium polymer batteries (abbreviated Li-poly or LiPo) are rechargeable batteries which have technologically evolved from lithium-ion batteries. that last approximately three to four weeks with normal use. Ready for the Future with I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output capability The expansion card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. will also accept Secure Digital input/output (SDIO See SDIO card. ) devices in addition to memory cards. Among the planned I/O devices are those that use the new Bluetooth protocol. Bluetooth, which is rapidly gaining momentum, is an open standard, currently under development for the short-range transmission of digital voice and data between mobile devices (laptops, PDAs, phones) and desktop devices. For more information, please see www.palm.com/latin or telephone 305-629-3287. |
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