The Palm IIIx is a PDA from Palm Computing released in 1999, briefly before the scaled down Palm IIIe was introduced into the marketplace.
7-553: 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
14-553: A bit hard to find). Palm III The Palm III is a personal digital assistant that was made by the Palm Computing division of 3Com . It went on sale in 1998 as a replacement for the PalmPilot handheld. It was the first Palm handheld to support infrared file transfer and a Flash ROM -capable operating system . At release, the Palm III was priced at US$ 400. At first glance, the most notable difference between
21-527: The OS ROM and RAM mounted on a memory card separate from the motherboard . This card could be replaced by a third party upgrade card to increase the Palm III's storage or functionality. In year 2000, Kodak released The PalmPix, a digital camera with an image display on the screen for the Palm Handheld. The Palm III's main competition were Palm-size PCs running Microsoft's Windows CE . However
28-600: The Palm III and its predecessor, the PalmPilot , is the more rugged and streamlined case. Other differences include a removable hard cover to protect the screen, removal of the memory door, a more recessed contrast adjustment knob, an infrared port, and a battery door less prone to accidentally falling off. The Palm III ran the new Palm OS version 3.0 which featured a new application launcher, an extra font size, bug fixes, and other improvements. It featured two megabytes of EDO SDRAM for storage of user data and software and two megabytes of Flash ROM for storage of
35-578: 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
42-487: The operating system and built-in applications. The LCD screen on the Palm III is essentially the same as that of the Palm Pilot Professional and Palm Pilot Personal which can display 2-bit greyscale . The LCD screen also has an electroluminescent backlight that can be turned on or off by holding the power button down for three seconds to allow for easier viewing in dark areas. The Palm III had
49-416: 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
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