Photo of the 3Com Audrey.

The 3Com Audrey is a discontinued internet appliance from 3Com. It was released to the public on October 17, 2000 for $499 USD. Once connected to an appropriate provider, users could access the internet, send and receive e-mail, play audio and video, and synchronize with up to two Palm OS-based devices. An Internet appliance is a consumer product which accesses services on the Internet, such as the World Wide Web or Internet telephony, but which is not a general-purpose computer and does not have a hard drive in general. ... 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. ... Jump to: navigation, search USD redirects here. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Palm OS is an operating system made by PalmSource, Inc. ...

After seven and a half months in the market, 3Com discontinued the product on June 1, 2001. Customers received full refunds for the product and accessories.

The 3Com Audrey is powered by a 200 MHz Geode GX 1 CPU, 16 MB of ROM, 32 MB RAM. It measures 9 x 11.8 x 3.0 inches (22.86 x 29.97 x 7.62 cm), and weighs 4.1 pounds (1.86 kg). It is powered by the QNX operating system. The x86 Geode microprocessor, originally the Cyrix MediaGX from National Semiconductor, but then AMD bought the business in August 2003 to augment its existing line of embedded x86 processor products. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... ROM, Rom, or rom may refer to: Roma (people), whose members are called Rom (or Gypsy) Read-only memory Royal Ontario Museum Rom (Star Trek), the name of a Ferengi from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Jump to: navigation, search Random access memory (sometimes random-access memory), commonly known by its acronym RAM, is a type of computer storage (in practice only computer chips) whose contents can be accessed in any (i. ... QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. ... Jump to: navigation, search In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ...

See also

• Internet appliance

An Internet appliance is a consumer product which accesses services on the Internet, such as the World Wide Web or Internet telephony, but which is not a general-purpose computer and does not have a hard drive in general. ...

References

• "3Com lets Audrey out the door". News.com. URL accessed on October 17, 2005.
• "Audrey’s life cut short". News.com. URL accessed on October 17, 2005.
• "3Com Ergo Audrey". PC Magazine. URL accessed on October 17, 2005.