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Las Vegas - IBM Corp. is readying a palmtop PC that combines a pager, digital still camera, portable phone, network client and PDA. The tiny (1.32-pound) 486SX/33-MHz-based 256-color unit drew big crowds at a sneak preview at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which closed last week.
Designed by IBM Japan, the IBM Palm Top PC 110 uses a lithium-ion battery and can run full PC functions based on the PC/AT architecture.
"We built something that is so portable, so versatile and yet fully functional as a PC," said Joe Takemura, advisory manager of strategic mobile computing for worldwide strategic marketing at IBM Personal Computer Co. (Tokyo).
Simply by changing a PCMCIA card with different functionalities, the unit becomes one of several consumer products: PDA,...