On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:16:34PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone heard /experienced anything about these? > http://www.powerplaydevices.com/products/ppvs_info.html
Not specifically, but I am probably the most PDAically inclined person on the list, but I'm generally a PalmOS user. kbob is also known to carry a Palm, and Mike O has upon occasion played around with a Zaurus. This is a Dragonball (16 or 33 MHz, doesn't say) m68k processor. It could not play mp3 on its own, so it must also have a hardware mp3 decoder. You won't get it to play mp4 AAC or Ogg Vorbis or anything like that, if that matters to you. The thing is in the shape of a Palm V/Vx/m50x. Not a surprise since the manufacturing is outsourced to companies in Hong Kong or mainland China, and it's cheaper to reuse a plastic mold than to pay for a new one, though people tend to recognize knockoffs, so it is usually only done by the smallest (ie, the fly by night) HK companies. Consider the cheap HK/China unlicensed cell phone parts and accessories. They work, but have the lowest quality construction imaginable. If you're after a Linux device at the $100 price point, you won't get a Zaurus for that, go for it. If you're looking for a PDA you can actually use as a PDA, get a Palm. You can get a Tungsten E, Zire 31, and probably still a Zire 71 for $80-150, depending. All good PDAs. I don't recommend PocketPC platform because it's pretty much tied to Windows and the PDA software isn't really as good, comparitively. Also, this device either uses Jot or something very much like it. The screenshot they show of the silkscreen area is taken from the Jot and Graffiti II marketting materials. Palm has an acknowledgement that their Graffiti II handwriting recognition is based on Jot. These people make no such claims, so I'm betting they're bootlegging the Graffiti II library from PalmOS. Palm paid a pretty penny for the use of Jot. This group seems to be cutting too many corners for that. Handwriting recognition systems aren't trivial to write, and although there are free ones for Linux, they don't seem to be using one of them. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
