begin William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:04:20PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > I've successfully updated my OS from 3.5 to 3.5.1. I know that PalmOS 4.0 > > is available now and that you can upgrade it. > > The actual _ability_ to upgrade, and the highest version you can upgrade > to, may be an issue, though. :^/ > > Pete - what kind of Palm device do you have? If I recall, it wasn't > even a Palm III, was it? (Maybe I'm confusing you with another friend I > know who's had a Palm for a while.) i currently have a palm (the original) and an agenda. the agenda is really too hard to use for a pda. it's fun to hack on, and i've built custom root filesystems for it, but at the end of the day, i think it's too much of a toy, not enough of a pda.
i'm thinking of switching back to palm. my current palm needs to be recalibrated every week; i think it's losing its marbles. i'd like to replace it before it fails completely. it has served me well for a very, very long time. the palm VIIx is selling for 200 bucks, and it comes with wireless communications hardware. the basic service is 10/month. i think what would absolutely sell me would be if i can have an ssh client on the palm. otherwise, wireless communication won't mean much if i can't get into dirac.org. i made a gnumeric spread sheet comparing and contrasting the different pda. it's ironic that the linux PDA's are the most expensive. with the exception of the agenda, of course. but frankly, i don't really need all the powerful hardware that comes with the linux pda's. when it comes down to it, coolness != usability. i have contacts. i have a schedule. being able to sync "ical" with a pda schedule is worth more than color, hires screen and audio capability put together. pete > FYI, there's a Palm Users Group (PUG) in Sacramento. > I don't know much about them (although I met someone from there at > the Sharp Zaurus Symposium, actually!), but I'm sure a quick web search > will find them, and they probably have a support mailing-list not unlike > vox-tech. > > > > I think I recall hearing that PalmOS is open-source, > > I'm fairly certain this is not true. :^/ > > > > which is one of the > > reasons why there are so many PDAs running it. But I've never attempted to > > mess around with it. > > Nope... licensing deals. :) Handspring and IBM pay/paid Palm for > the ability to include PalmOS on their devices. > > -bill! > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
