From: Norman (romanus_at_saepio.com)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 12:58:59 PDT
Excellent. I couldn't agree more
I just looked them over and although some of them are really sexy,
The newton still rocks
> > I have used them
>> all over the years even
>> went as far as shall I dare say it, used a WinCE
>> device...Big mistake
>
>In my "former" life, I had used every PDA known to
>exist (I still get the opportunity to play with some
>of the newer ones because of my self proclaimed
>"Gadget" moniker)Starting with the AT&T EO (barely not
>even considered a PDA, but it kinda started this "Pen"
>thing) and various Magic Cap implementations, several
>versions of Palm, (I must say that the wireless
>implementation on the Palm VII is not as smooth as the
>Newton sollution by Motorola on the Motorola Marco...)
>I particularly enjoyed playing with the Simon and even
>deployed the cellphone/pda sollution through my
>support team.
>As far as the WinCE platform goes, it's important to
>differentiate between the Jupiter class and the
>hand-held-Palm devices. The HP Jornada 820 and the Nec
>MobilePro series are simply awsome. Yet, they are
>scaled down renditions of lightweight laptops. But
>functionality and ease of use (not to mention, the
>speed) brings a smile to the face of any Windows lap
>top user frustrated with the boot times of Win2K on a
>64mb laptop.
>When talking about the palm held units, there are the
>good and the truly sucky...I loved-and-hated the
>Philips Nino. The implementation and ability to hold
>it in your hand was comfortable. The modifications
>they made to the OS and included programs was,
>well...not very well thought out!
>Today's class of Palm computers in the WinCE arena are
>nothing short of amazing. The Compaq iPaq with the
>color screen is an incredible machine. With every
>increment of WinCE, Microsoft does one more thing
>"right". If they continue the way they're going, they
>will dominate the Palm computing arena that Palm sits
>so comfortably in...for the time being.
>So, why didn't I like the Palm? Hmmm, it seemed
>limited to what it could do and REQUIRED connectivity
>to a desktop machine to make it a complete unit.
>That's what I love about the Newt...The only time in
>the last 4 years that I connected my Newt to a
>computer was about 2 months ago when i needed to
>create a second backup of a memory card...My Newt is
>completly autonomous and has been my my side since the
>original 110...
>So, considering that my Newt is still working
>(although, th IR thing seems to not function anymore)
>I can wait for the industry to catch up to a device
>that was already perfect 3 years ago!
>Ed
>web/gadget guru
>
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