From: karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 13:09:15 PDT
Les wrote:
> Some NTLK.s were playing around with their P9x0 devices some time back.
> Care to share your experiences/impressions?
> I don't think it really (can) competes head on with the Newton. From what I
> gather so far from reviews, just a handy well constructed all-in-one
> PIM/phone.
> thanks
I've had mine for about a month now and it is now the only PDA I
carry. My Newtons are still in dayly use, but as a bedside bookreader
and a portable webstation (WiFI-based).
Reasons why I like the P910i:
- it's small, a _lot_ smaller than a MP2100 and substantially smaller
than a Psion Series 5mx; it even beats my old Treo 270 (and doesn't
have an unwieldy antenna sticking out)
- it's Symbian. I'm sorry, but I'm biased that way: I learned the PDA
ropes on a Psion series 3a and I still like the way its sibling does
things
- it's everything under one roof. Maybe not always the best possible
solution (the camera is only VGA, the music player is limited to the
size of the -- expensive! -- Memory Stick, the PDA has a small screen)
but it's all there, in one little package in my pocket.
Reasons why I don't like the P910i:
- you need to invest more money to make it work right: at least a 512
mb Memory Stick (EUR 60,00 on eBay), better Office software (Documents
To Go is another EUR 30,00), a Bluetooth headset (EUR 40,00)...
- the screen is indeed verging on too small, but the dpi resolution is
magnificent, so that kinda pans out evenly
- the HWR, compared to the Newton, blows chunks. It's CIC's JotPro,
AKA Graffiti2. It's not even proper HWR, but character recognition.
Still, it works and -- for me at least -- well enough to write more
than the occasional SMS. I've been bugging the good people at PhatWare
to release a version of their HWR (which is basically ParaGraph) for
Symbian, but sofar without luck. I use PenOffice on my tablet PC and I
have a feeling that the P910i, with ParaGraph, would be the sort of
PDA the Newton could have evolved into
- the thumb-board really sucks. Some people swear by it, I swear at
it. Frankly, I just don't use it
- the battery life is only barely adequate: if you are more than an
occasional user, it needs recharging every day. Fortunately, both car
rechargers and grey market batteries for the Sony Ericsson line are
ridiculously cheap: I bought a desktop charger and two batteries for
less than EUR 15,00 including shipping on eBay
- Oh, and for some reason, Sony Ericsson are not allowed to make it
possible for their users to record phone calls. Dammit.
Does this help?
Karel Jansens
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