Hitachi Unveils New Handheld PC

Electronic News, July 26, 1999 by Arik Hesseldahl

Hitachi America Ltd. Tuesday unveiled its latest handheld PC at the Internet World trade show in Chicago. With the new model, the HPW- 600ET, Hitachi is breaking away from the older clamshell style designs of its previous design, and moving toward what it calls a tablet style, based around a pen, not a keyboard.

The handheld will run Microsoft Corp.'s latest version of its Windows CE handheld operating system. The device weighs less than two pounds and features a 640x480 LCD screen that supports 65,536 colors. Inside it has a Hitachi SuperH SH-4 RISC processor operating at 128MHz. It also has a VGA output for presentation display and a built-in 56Kbyte modem.