Re: [NTLK] Newton os to RCS Bookman?

From: Jonathan Wise (jonathanwise_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 15:35:13 EST


Hi, I'm a new member of newtontalk.net -- my Newton is in the mail!

Just for interest sake I purchased a Franklin eBookman, while feeling
immensly frustrated by the uselessness of my Handspring Visor Deluxe, and
owned it for all of a week.

The eBookman is first a book-reader, second an organizer, and third and last
a hand-held computer. While the screen size is wonderful, there's not enough
room between the case and the screen to make holding it comfortable (without
putting your hand on the screen).
Speaking of the screen, it sucks, the contrast, the touch everything about
it is annoying. And it's glass.

But the thing that makes the eBookman utterly useless is the handwriting
recognition. They should have just paid to use graffiti.

They did a bunch of things better than Palm (and friends), it wasn't a
resource hog like WinCE, but ultimately it just sucked.

I'm looking forward to getting my Newton and having an actually useful tool
to carry around with me. And I'm happy to see there's a user group available
to help out...

-Jonathan Wise

>From: Dustin Long <dlong_at_tamu.edu>
>Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newton os to RCS Bookman?
>Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:14:16 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>A point of clarification:
>
>I think you mean the Franklin Bookman II,
>http://www.franklin.com/estore/platform/bookman2/
>
>Maybe the "e-BookMan" instead? To my eye, looks more like a Palm.
>http://www.franklin.com/ebookman/
>
>On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Bryan Cantley wrote:
>
> >
> > Since Jobs disappointed all of us [again] in terms of the neat PDA, I
> > was wondering if anyone had seen the RCA Bookman [i think that's the
> > name]? Perfect size, really nice B+W screen [EXCELLENT contrast].
> >
> > Is there any potential [for you techs out there] of getting the Newton
> > OS onto the RCA, oe am I [as most were two days ago] just dreaming out
> > loud?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>--
>This is the Newtontalk mailinglist - http://www.newtontalk.net
>To unsubscribe or manage: visit the above link or
> mailto:newtontalk-request_at_newtontalk.net?Subject=unsubscribe
>

_________________________________________________________________
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

-- 
This is the Newtontalk mailinglist - http://www.newtontalk.net
To unsubscribe or manage: visit the above link or
	mailto:newtontalk-request_at_newtontalk.net?Subject=unsubscribe



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Feb 01 2002 - 16:02:10 EST