From: John Charlton (johncharlton_at_mac.com)
Date: Sun Feb 15 2004 - 11:09:12 PST
Was in the local Micro-Center today and tried a high-end Palm device
(Tungsten T). Form factor was nice (collapsing into a very small
package), colour screen was nice. But I went to the notepad
application, did some free-form doodles, and discovered you couldn't
edit them like the Newton notepad. Been doing a lot of CAD-like
sketches lately (high-school robotics team) and finding new tricks for
highlighting sections of circles to create arcs, cutting out sections
of a line to make hidden lines, scaling, copying, etc. The Palm had
none of this, just different pen widths, oooh.
The HWR is amazing to be sure, but the sketch recognition is even more
unique.
BTW one of the kids on the team is now searching ebay for one. Too many
converts and we'll run out of spares!
On Feb 14, 2004, at 18:23, Bret Feinblatt wrote:
> In my book, the handwriting recognition is the most important and
> deciding feature of the Newt. I love being able to tell people that I
> don't need to learn weird hieroglyphs or write in specially designated
> locations because the Newt understands English.
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