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By Richard Hall

Hewlett-Packard Developing More Handhelds?

According to an article in PC Week, HP is developing additional handheld devices to be released sometime next year. The article quotes an HP representative as saying that HP will base its "mobile information appliances" on standard hardware and software, allowing them to take advantage of existing software.

According to the article, the products in development include derivatives of the 95LX (customizable for specific uses), pen-based organizers, and a 3-pound subnotebook PC. The author of the article mentioned a subnotebook prototype shown earlier this year by HP that ran a ROM-based version of DOS, and included Windows and Windows applications.