I have an opinion on this...I firmly believe that a
"Personal" device should be just that...PERSONAL!
There should be no barrier to interaction with your
personal device. (within bounds of technology and
price) The device should learn and adapt to the user.
The device should be infinatly changable, allowing
extreme customization. In short, the device should be
an extension of the user...in my case, a spare brain.
The human mind is a wondrous thing. The human is the
only creature who can dream, and have goals. I call
this ability "Blue Sky". To use the brain to store
phone numbers or other mundane things is a travesty!
Delegate the mundane and repetitious to something that
is designed for that, your personal device!
While nothing today can fit these strict requirements,
the Newton comes the closest.
Additionally, I think in words and sentences. Not
letters. I write a word. Sure, it's letter by letter,
but the goal is a word. having to stop and think about
each letter individually chokes my thinking and causes
me to loose the elusive thought flowing in my brain!
Grafitti doesn't promote creativity...it's a note
taker, a jotter at best!
Ed
web/gadget guru
(sorry about my soapbox there)
--- "Gruendel, Frank 3837 PPE-S3"
<Frank.Gruendel_at_de.heidelberg.com> wrote:
>
> > The Newt recognizes words not just letters.
>
> Which is the main reason that HWR in the models with
> os 1.x was as bad and
> slow as it was. And certainly one of the reasons
> that the Newton was less
> successful than it could have been. It is way easier
> and faster to recognize
> a single letter instead of guessing what might have
> been written based on
> the context available so far.
>
> > I don't see how Palm could EVER do what the Newton
> does.
>
> It can't. There again, Palm Inc. never claimed it
> can. It's only owners of
> admittedly superior hardware who won't stop doing
> this kind of comparison.
>
> The Palm is an organizer
> whereas the Newton is a computer.
<snip>
> > I have never liked grafiti and consequently never
> learned it, since I
> > tried it YEARS ago. The thing is, I know the
> alphabet now, but the
> > recongnizer just doesn't recognize some letters,
> and it just sucks!!!!
>
<snip>
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