Re: [NTLK] Subject: Newton design (was: What Benshop is doing)

From: Jim Siburt (jsiburt_at_mac.com)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 05:51:11 PDT

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> still, the vertical market is allergic to legacy ports and obviously
> prefer hardware buttons. the fact that you need the pen for basically
> any type of input makes it necessary to use both hands for operation -
> which is, most of the times, not so functional. i would suppose that
> folks out in the field (like me) want to have HW buttons.

The Newton is capable of HW buttons as is seen with the eMate. It would
interesting to see the Newton OS on a new device.

Regards,
Jim S.

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