Is that a PC in your pocket?
ZDNet | at | by Mike
During the summer of 1997, the top dog of the desktop PC crowd was a 300MHz Pentium II processor. Now, five years later, Intel's second-generation PXA250 ("XScale" core) is delivering 200MHz, 300MHz, and 400MHz CPUs to Pocket PC PDAs--literally putting yesterday's desktop PC in your pocket.
On the other side of town, Handspring, the company founded by the original designers of the Palm handheld organizer, has released its Treo line of PDAs. Both the Treo 90, a run-of-the-mill organizer, and the Treo 300 are part of a new PDA genre called "communicators." These two combo phone/organizers run on the Motorola 33MHz DragonBall VZ processor--not much compared to Intel's hyperactive clockwork, although it does double the speed of the original 16MHz Handspring Visor of three years ago.