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From the dark ages of the late 90's to today, the Palm OS handheld has evolved. Click picture for a larger image.

Royea has been hooked on Palm OS computing since owning his first PalmPilot Professional back in 1997. He now owns more than a two dozen Palm OS devices, not to mention his other PDAs (including a Newton, Zoomer, Magic Link, and assorted Windows CE devices).

He has also been active in the Palm OS community for many years, both on the Web and locally as president of the Vancouver Palm Users Group at http://www.vanpug.com. Along with Peter Strobel in Germany, Royea is a partner in deepTec (at http://www.deeptec.com), a company that specializes in vertical-market Palm OS development. He also acted as Technical Reviewer for O'Reilly's PalmPilot: the Ultimate Guide (Second Edition).

Royea wanted to create PalmEvolution.com because he felt it would provide an interesting visual perspective of the increasingly complex array of hardware, and he believed the Palm OS community would find it to be a valuable resource tool. His final inspiration came after reading Piloting Palm by Andrea Butter and David Pogue. This behind-the-scenes story of the birth of the handheld industry can be found at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471089656/.

Royea plans to continue updating PalmEvolution.com as new devices and licensees are announced. In fact, the new Dana device from AlphaSmart (at http://www.alphasmart.com) has already been added to the ever-growing family tree. Check out http://www.palmevolution.com for yourself and reflect on the amazing history of the Palm OS handheld.

Product availability and resources For more information on PalmEvolution, visit http://www.palmevolution.com. For more information on Vancouver Palm Users Group, visit http://www.vanpug.com. For more information on deepTec, visit http://www.deeptec.com. For the book, Piloting Palm, by Andrea Butter and David Pogue, visit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471089656/. For more information on AlphaSmart, visit http://www.alphasmart.com. For more information on Palm handhelds, visit http://www.palm.com. Your site can earn this special banner Do you run a special site, one that provides a great resource for Palm device users? If so, your site may be eligible for consideration as the PalmPower Site of the Month. If chosen, you'll even be entitled to display the snazzy banner shown in Figure B. FIGURE B Is your site cool enough to be the PalmPower Site of the Month? If you'd like your site to be considered for the PalmPower Site of the Month, send email to steve_niles@palmpower.com. Please specify "PALMPOWER COOLSITE" in the subject field of your email, and include a paragraph or two about what makes your site special. Easy, flexible article reprints ZATZ now offers a quick, easy, flexible and inexpensive way to use article reprints in your marketing and promotion efforts. You can now get article reprints for a one-time fee of only $200. For details, visit http://mediakit.zatz.com/reprints.

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