Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:38:51 -0800
From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] OQO 1+ vs. Libretto U100 review
I get my phone through work, so it is by necessity a Blackberry. I
like the Blackberry for email and tolerate it for voice, but don't
feel it does anything else well.
Even if I could choose my phone freely, in the US the cellphone
companies are not very adventuresome in their phone offerings and
Verizon, my preferred carrier, is among the least adventuresome.
I was just in Europe and saw some smartphones that certainly looked
very nice. If I were there, I'd probably try something like a Nokia
Communicator.
On Mar 15, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Jose Tavares wrote:
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:59:27 -0300
From: Jose Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] OQO 1+ vs. Libretto U100 review
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:03 -0800, John Liu wrote:
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:32:00 +0100
From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] OQO 1+ vs. Libretto U100 review
Are there any OQO owners on the list? Would you care to share your
experiences? My main points of interest are:
- How briskly does the OQO wake up from hibernation/standby?
Quickly enough so that you can pull it from your pocket and look up a
phone number without grinding your teeth?
- Supposing you leave the OQO in hibernation/standby most of the
time, just waking it up to look up phone numbers, jot down some
notes, check your email, do a Mapquest search, etc, can you get
through a whole day on a single battery charge? How about with the
double-capacity battery?
- Is the keyboard at least as usable as, let's say, a Blackberry or
a Treo keyboard?
If the answer to these is "yes", I'll probably buy a OQO. I've been
researching them for a while and they seem pretty good, though
pricey.
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Why not using a Symbian phone instead..? I have one.. pretty good
for my
400 contacts (with vcf backup), calendar, taking pictures, accessing
simple www sites, taking notes..
The features of a Series60 phone are infinite.. You can even play
games
with lots of emulators.. You can watch divx movies too.. The battery
lasts 2 days in normal use with this apps.. And it is resistent
sufficiently to go everywhere with you.. And fits in your pocket..
etc..
etc.. :)
A question for you.. Don't you think windowsXP is full-featured for
your
target app? It just needs a good processor and a big battery to
stay up
for just a few hours..
My Series60 gets its battery full charged in 1h20mins and lots of
times
I charge it for 10 minutes and it will give me more 3-7 hours.. Its
battery is so cheap that I even care for it...
I think the best purpose for OQO is it's capacity for conecting a usb
keyboard and a external display .. Great for traveling from home to
office for people without a internet connection and file server..
The question is that OQO is cool but has too much processing power
that
will give you too little battery.. I think too much processing
power for
it's bad keyboard/mouse, for not using it as a real computer..
Maybe a tuned OS would do better on this machine.. Linux?
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JA Tavares
