And then there are these:
Sony VGN-UX380N - http://tinyurl.com/3crnt6
OQO - http://www.oqo.com/
I walked past the Sony on a store display the other day, and spent
the next several minutes playing with it. It's a pretty impressive
little box. Still too big and heavy to be a PDA, but not by
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:47:40AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Sacha Chua (Cc'ed on this e-mail) who's since become a good friend of
mine, introduced me to my current PDA/PIM device of choice: The
Hipster PDA.
When they make a version that includes alarm functionality for
repeating events and
On 3/21/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you want? A computer you can carry around with you? Or
something
to carry around w/ your data until you can get to a real computer?
Ideally the former, but I'll settle for the latter if
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:46:52 -0400
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess it depends on how much it costs and whether it is worth it to
you. Look around. If you don't see what you like, buy another one and
use that until it is held together with tape, the thumbwheel breaks off,
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 3/21/07, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You know... I'd bet there would be a market for low-end PDAs ...
There is. They're called cell phones.
For me it's called a wife :)
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On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you want? A computer you can carry around with you? Or something
to carry around w/ your data until you can get to a real computer?
[...]
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The ability to use it as a handheld -- i.e., *in my
Ben Scott writes:
...
Just wait until technology advances to the point where sound and
video can be fed directly into human sensory perception. Audio will
come first. I predict we will see implanted audio communication
devices (phones) within ten years. Implanted hearing aids already
I'll comment again (although I don't own one yet) - check out the N800
by Nokia (http://www.nokiausa.com/N800). Not a cell phone, but a
Linux PDA with built-in WiFi, Skype, Bluetooth, 2 x SD slots, 640x480
color display, 128MB RAM, 256MB flash, web camera, etc. Also an active
open-source
On 3/22/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll comment again (although I don't own one yet) - check out the N800
by Nokia (http://www.nokiausa.com/N800).
I did. Very cool looking device. Unfortunately, for my purposes,
small as it is, it is still too big. It's more of a handSheld
Jeffry Smith wrote:
I'll comment again (although I don't own one yet) - check out the N800
by Nokia (http://www.nokiausa.com/N800).
All well and good but
Browsing time: up to 3 hours
HUH? THREE HOURS?!? Are they %^%%%$[EMAIL PROTECTED] high!?!? That's a
limitation not a feature.
I
On 3/22/07, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Browsing time: up to 3 hours
What's up with PDAs, UMPCs, and even laptops these days and the severe
lack of battery life?
Partly increased CPU and RAM to run the latest bloatware.
Mostly the display backlight and radios. That backlight
On Mar 22, 2007, at 09:47, Paul Lussier wrote:
So, where do you get this wonderful, almost too-good-to-be-true
device?
Insert time is good, delete time is good, updates can be good, unless
I/O is blocked. Search can be O(n), unless the search tool is buggy,
then it might fail.
But
On 3/22/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But synchronization and garbage collection are a bitch!
And the cut-and-paste implementation is even worse than X11's.
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Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 3/22/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But synchronization and garbage collection are a bitch!
And the cut-and-paste implementation is even worse than X11's.
Well, no, they have a solution to that, carbon-paper :) Then it's more
like a
That's not all I'm getting at (though it is part of it). I object
to the whole attitude wireless carriers have. They want everything
locked in to them, owned by them, controlled by them. Ideally, they
want to charge me every time I press a button, take a picture, or
think. It's Microsoft
On 3/21/07, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, then what cell phone carrier are you currently using that
doesn't do that?
I'm using the cell phone carrier that work uses and pays for
(Nextel), because they want me to have a cell phone. It has a just
make phone calls plan, and a phone
I've had a Palm since my days at Digital. I currently have a Treo 650
with GPS software so I can't get lost on my way to work or to the
Galley Diner in South Boston. My only complaint is that with the
Mapopolis software when I receive a cal while in GPS mode, the mapping
software sometimes
On 3/20/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, world!
So, I'm thinking about getting a new handheld computer (AKA PDA),
before the one I have now finishes crumbling into dust. (For purposes
of this discussion, let's assume my handheld and my mobile phone will
be two different
Not too long ago, I grabbed a cheap Handspring Visor off eBay (about $35
with shipping). Linux compatible (mostly), long battery life, AAA
batteries, and great PIM.
Add a CF adapter and it's actually useful as a text reader.
Works out find for me.
Now if those ePaper thingies had lower prices,
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
Not too long ago, I grabbed a cheap Handspring Visor off eBay (about $35
with shipping). Linux compatible (mostly), long battery life, AAA
batteries, and great PIM.
Add a CF adapter and it's actually useful as a text reader.
Works
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
Not too long ago, I grabbed a cheap Handspring Visor
I bought a Palm m130 at the last Hosstraders.
You know... I'd bet there would be a market for low-end PDAs if we could
find a cheap way to build them and a way
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you want? A computer you can carry around with you? Or something
to carry around w/ your data until you can get to a real computer?
Ideally the former, but I'll settle for the latter if that's the
only way to get good handheld
Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any hardware engineers out there want to take a stab at a
mass-producible, cheap PDA?
First there was OLTPC, now there will be OPDAPG (One PDA Per Geek).
Or would it be 2 or 3 or 4 PDA/Geek ?
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Paul
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On Mar 20, 2007, at 18:30, Ben Scott wrote:
But wireless carriers universally see any cell phone, and all the data
on it, as *their* property. They don't sell you a phone, they let you
use their phone, maybe, for a little while, so long as you keep up on
your protection payments.
You can use
On 3/21/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... what NexTel has ...
Since you bring it up: Nextel uses iDEN (which is incompatible with
everything else, of course). I think Nextel is the only carrier in
the US to use iDEN. iDEN was designed by Motorola as a wide-area
trunked radio
On 3/21/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, world!
So, I'm thinking about getting a new handheld computer (AKA PDA),
before the one I have now finishes crumbling into dust. (For purposes
of this discussion, let's assume my handheld and my mobile phone will
be two different devices.)
So, I'm thinking about getting a new handheld computer (AKA PDA),
before the one I have now finishes crumbling into dust. (For purposes
of this discussion, let's assume my handheld and my mobile phone will
be two different devices.) I'd like to hear people's opinions and
experiences on
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:11:00PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
I'm especially interested in the Sharp Zaurus. I understand that,
while it's nominally not sold in the US, it's pretty easy to find
vendors importing it, and that the manufacturer support picture is
pretty good (for the immediate
On 3/20/07, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(For purposes of this discussion, let's assume my handheld and
my mobile phone will be two different devices.)
I would seriously consider combining the two devices. I find it very helpful.
~sigh~ Yes, yes. That's the way it would be, in an
On Mar 20, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
~sigh~ Yes, yes. That's the way it would be, in an ideal world.
But wireless carriers universally see any cell phone, and all the data
on it, as *their* property. They don't sell you a phone, they let you
use their phone, maybe, for a little
~sigh~ Yes, yes. That's the way it would be, in an ideal world.
But wireless carriers universally see any cell phone, and all the
data
on it, as *their* property. They don't sell you a phone, they let
you
use their phone, maybe, for a little while, so long as you keep up on
your
On Mar 20, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
I object
to the whole attitude wireless carriers have.
So do I, but in the end I have bigger things to worry about.
Besides, as soon as Google rolls out their nationwide Wifi, and
accompanying phone it won't be such an issue anymore.
On 3/20/07, brk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I object to the whole attitude wireless carriers have.
So do I, but in the end I have bigger things to worry about.
From what I can tell, most people have that attitude. Which, of
course, is what lets so many companies get away with such lousy
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