From: smoerk (smoerk_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 11 2004 - 05:42:36 PDT
it fits really well. same screen resolution and bigger display than
many other PDAs. not too expensive. biggest disadvantage: no linux for
it.
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:19:10 -0400, Brian G. <briansnewton_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> As a MP2100 and Tapwave Zodiac 2 owner (Palm OS 5.2T), I was
> pleasantly surprised to see a picture of the Zodiac featured in the
> sixth slide of Roman Pixell's presentation "Why Apple's Newton failed
> in the market place, a retrospective."
>
> There are a quite a few similarities between the Zodiac and the
> Newton: They share dual expansion slots, comfort in both portrait and
> landscape orientation and they are both world firsts as devices. The
> Newton was the world's first Personal Digital Assistant, and the
> Zodiac, according to Tapwave, is the world's first true mobile
> entertainment console.
>
> I've been longing to see the brilliance of Newton OS on a modern
> device like my Zodiac (which IMO would be a perfect medium for it).
> Hopefully, through the hard work of Paul Guyot and others working on
> the Einstein project, this will soon become a reality.
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