Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company (Nasdaq:COMS), today announced immediate U.S. availability of two new limited edition connected organizers for the holiday season, the Palm Vx™ Special Edition and Palm IIIe™ Special Edition products. 3Com also reduced estimated street prices on the full line of award-winning Palm Computing organizers and introduced a set of brightly-colored translucent flip covers for the Palm III™ organizer family products.
The Palm Vx Special Edition organizer is new addition to the company's popular slim-line Palm V™ 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 certain groups of customers seek specific features for a particular use," said Byron Connell, vice president of marketing for Palm Computing. "These special edition products are designed for the particular needs of important market segments such as power users and students or families who use Palm products as lifestyle organizers. Together with today's national rollout of the highly-anticipated Palm VII 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 through selected retailers as part of the special
holiday-season offering. A high-performance addition to the Palm V product family, the
Palm Vx Special Edition organizer includes 8 MB of memory, making it ideal for
professionals for whom ultra-portability is critical, such as doctors or field workers
using data-intensive applications or large reference libraries. In addition, the Palm Vx
organizer features faster HotSync® synchronization speed and allows users to synchronize
their data between the product's infrared port and the infrared port from their desktop or
laptop PC.
Palm IIIe Special Edition and Palm Colour Shades Flip Covers
With an estimated street price of $179 and featuring a translucent, clear case, the Palm
IIIe Special Edition organizer is a fun and affordable organizer, designed to have broad
appeal to students and other style- and price-conscious consumers. The product's clear
plastic casing allows viewing of the inside of the device while providing the same
features of the Palm IIIe organizer, which premiered this summer as the Palm III family's
entry-level, consumer product.
In conjunction with this offering, 3Com has introduced a new accessory kit that includes three Palm III organizer family flip covers, in translucent lime, blue and aqua, plus three black stylii. Called the Palm Colour Shades kit, this accessory package is available for $12.95. The Palm IIIe Special Edition organizer and the Palm Colour Shades accessory pack are available through selected retailers as part of the special holiday-season offering.
Price Reductions: Palm Computing Family of Organizers 3Com today reduced prices for the full line of Palm Computing organizers. The street price of the Palm V product is now expected to be $369, down from its introduction price of $449. The Palm IIIx™ product price was reduced to $299, down from $369, and the Palm IIIe product was reduced to $179, down from $229.
In a separate release, 3Com today announced broad U.S. availability of the highly-anticipated Palm VII™ organizer, which has been reduced to a nationwide introductory price of $499, down from $599 at the product's regional rollout in the New York metropolitan tri-state area last May. For more details on Palm Computing 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 International Data Corp. (May, 1999).
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