Welcome to the old school: Commodore to sell PDA

Engadget, not the type of shop to heap needless praise on old ideas, is nonetheless impressed by Commodore's addition of two QWERTY-equipped Pocket PCs to its new lineup. Here's Donald Melanson:

Of course, specs for any of those are virtually non-existent, although there's apparently some talk that the Pocket PCs could sell for between €100 and €150 (or roughly $220 to $290) whenever they're actually released.

Windows CE for life!

Commodore impresses with prototypes at IFA, really [Eng]

[#1 posted by Halloween Jack , September 3, 2008 8:38 AM]

D-pad above the keyboard? That's, ah, original.

[#2 posted by Daemon , September 3, 2008 11:40 PM]

It's funny how many people have forgotten how godlike commodore was compared to most if not all of their competition back in the early days in many areas.

Take the C64... Full colour and polyphonic sound at a time when most of their competion was stuck in the land of monocrhome with a speaker that was hard pressed to make anything other than a series of poorly modulated beeps. The Amiga even more so.

Disclaimer: my first computer was a C64, and I still miss playing M.U.L.E.

[#3 posted by MarkHB , September 4, 2008 4:52 AM]

*sighs*

I started off on the VIC-20. I'd buy a Commodore PDA just to have it. The white-lidded netbook is also tempting.