On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:54:23PM -0700, Ian Stephen wrote: > On May 31, 2008, Mike wrote: > > If I wanted a PDA the runs linux and has wifi, and gets good battery > > life, any suggestions? > > I've got a Nokia N800. Much less expensive than the N810, but 810 has some > things 800 doesn't.
Key difference, at least for me, is that the N810 has a keyboard. Very important for me, but YMMV. > Battery life is from 1 day to 1 week or so depending on how I'm using it. > Wifi reception is the best of any device I've used. > 2 SD slots that are SDHC compatible so plenty of storage. N810 has only one Mini-SDHC slot (in practice that means one uses a Micro-SDHC card in an adapter in there) and 2 GB of internal (as in: soldered in) flash card. So far I'm fine with that. > Fits a jacket or shirt pocket just fine. > > I use GPE calendar, todo, timesheet; camera, gnumeric and Maemopad+ daily. > PDF viewer occasionally. Am very happy with it. Look forward to getting a > bluetooth keyboard (perhaps iFrog). Xournal is also a very nice application. Another one is fbreader, turning your PDA into a mobile library. > One regret is that I didn't put a screen protector on right away. Now has a > scratchy feeling place on screen where I write the most. Oh, and the > hand-writing recognition works much better for me than Palm's Grafitti 2 > does. I never use the HWR - thats what the keyboard is for ;-) > One gotcha to watch for is that Maemopad+ db main table data is lost if the > device battery runs out with the application open. In my case I was able to > recover the db with data from its backup table using a cli sqlite3 client. *ouch* Regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community