Conference 7.286::digital

    
    I don't understand why people cannot just answer the question and then
    give the pointer?
    
       Dove and Baby Dove are Digital version of the Personal Digital 
       Assistant.
    
       With the HiNote Ultra PC system, innovation came in its
       lightness, thinness, ergonomic design, and the high performance
       packed into such a small package.
    
       Dove and Baby Dove next-generation personal
           digital assistants (PDAs).
    
       for more information if your so inclined see HUMANE::PDA, topic 71.
    
    bc
    useg

	What? No web page with pretty pictures of the Dove?

							mike

    the reason is that nobody knows!  When the Livewire article hit, I sent
    mail to Mr. Hanson asking for info, haven't heard back yet.
    
    Mark

    ... a brand name for soap - at least here in Germany.
    
    Klaus
    

Both soap and ice cream bars in the US.  So what?

			Steve

    Brought to you by the same folks that gave us "Rainbow", I assume.
    
    Dove brings to mind a scented bath soap or a bird.  Nothing else.
    
    							Tex

    Its the name of a brand of tank  here...
    
    of course, I could be lying.

       <<< AKOCOA::SYS$SYSDEVICE:[NOTES$LIBRARY]DECPC_PORTABLES.NOTE;1 >>>
                             -< DECpc _Portables >-
================================================================================
Note 1468.3                     Digital Dove PDA.                         3 of 4
POBOX::CORSON "Higher, and a bit more to the right"   8 lines  23-JUN-1995 14:53
                     -< The silence has been deafening... >-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    Ditto last note.
    
    Have a customer that is interested in specs, etc. after seeing the same
    business week article. This customer has about $100MM of Digital
    currently installed worldwide.
    
    		the Greyhawk
       <<< AKOCOA::SYS$SYSDEVICE:[NOTES$LIBRARY]DECPC_PORTABLES.NOTE;1 >>>
                             -< DECpc _Portables >-
================================================================================
Note 1468.4                     Digital Dove PDA.                         4 of 4
WRKSYS::DUTTON "Inspiration, move me brightly..."     5 lines  23-JUN-1995 17:06
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'll say it again, there is no such animal as a Dove.

Dove was an AD project on mobile computing focussed on a slate-oriented
computing device.  The mockup design for this device is what won the 
award.  The project ended last summer, and the device was not productized.
    
    
    ***************************************************************************
    
    My take:
    
      Brilliant. First the Alpha notebook, now a PDA. We gee up the customers
    by publicly demonstrating hot new toys (and even winning a design award
    for one of them!), then disappoint them by killing the project. I don't
    contend that there may be sound business reasons for killing off the
    projects; Tadpole haven't exactly gone supersonic so far with their
    attempts at an Alpha notebook, and the PDA market has never taken off
    in the way many people anticipated. But if we aren't going to do them,
    why are they getting as far as publicly demonstrated prototypes (with
    most of the design costs spent?), before being killed off? Surely the
    decision as to whether or not a project is a viable business
    proposition should be made *before* it is publicly demonstrated? If we
    aren't going to make them, we shouldn't p*** off actual, as well as
    potential, customers by showing them shiny new toys, then telling them
    they can't have one, ever. I suppose the damage is not likely to be
    great, but I can't see how this can possibly improve DEC's image.
    
      If BP is still reading this conference, maybe he'd like to explain;
    didn't he demonstrate the Alpha notebook prototype?
    
    Ken   

    
    Ken -
    
    	Tell me about it.
    
    	I spend an inordinate amount of Digital's time explaining to
    customers why we really are not as stupid as we try to appear.
    
    		the Greyhawk

BTW, "Dove" is pronounced close to the German word "doof", which means
simple-minded. Seems to be a perfect name for this - cancelled - project.

Hans.

>================================================================================
>Note 1468.3                     Digital Dove PDA.                         3 of 4
>POBOX::CORSON "Higher, and a bit more to the right"   8 lines  23-JUN-1995 14:53
>                     -< The silence has been deafening... >-
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------