Jack Schofield 

Palm red faced about colours

Palm Inc has admited that its m130 handheld doesn't display all the colours it claimed. The discrepancy became obvious when compared with a Handspring that did. "We want our customers to know we made this honest mistake," Palm's Marlene Somsak told Wired News. "We truly believed the m130 offered 65,000 color combinations. We want to offer an apology." What remains odd is that Wired neglected to mention that it has happened before. For example, in 2000, Hewlett-Packard launched a Jornada handheld with a 16-bit colour screen that ended up displaying 12.
  
  


Palm Inc has admited that its m130 handheld doesn't display all the colours it claimed. The discrepancy became obvious when compared with a Handspring that did. "We want our customers to know we made this honest mistake," Palm's Marlene Somsak told Wired News. "We truly believed the m130 offered 65,000 color combinations. We want to offer an apology." What remains odd is that Wired neglected to mention that it has happened before. For example, in 2000, Hewlett-Packard launched a Jornada handheld with a 16-bit colour screen that ended up displaying 12.

 

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