From: Apostolos Koutropoulos (der_admiral_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu May 26 2005 - 07:49:56 PDT
Personally I am with steve on this one.
If you exclude the newton (which is WAY to sophisticated to be called a PDA,
but we'll get to the semantics later of what is a PDA, and what is not)
Look at what is available today in terms of PDAs
Palm OS based devices --> paper and pen are more useful ;-)
Windows Mobile devices --> could be useful, but the darned OS crashes
Linux devices (e.g. Zaurus) --> Same as palm - but there is a software gap
Plain ol' digital assistants are more or less a thing of the past.
Connected Digital Assistants that are capable of handling tasks such as word
processing, spreadsheets, presentations, email, network browsing are what is
useful.
The problem is that when it comes to PDAs, just like computers, there is no
"one size fits all". My dream device would have a 1Ghz xscale, 1 GB RAM,
WiFi, BT, UMTS/EDGE built-in, and a build in hard drive & a good keyboard.
Too much to ask.
On 26/5/05 10:39, "Grant Hutchinson" <grant_at_splorp.com> wrote:
> On May 25, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Alex Santos wrote:
>
>> http://palmtops.about.com/b/a/2005_05_24.htm
>>
>> Scroll down halfway.
>
> We all know what Ol' Stevie Wonderful thinks about PDAs.
>
> What's hilarious on that page is that fact that PalmOne is changing
> their name _back_ to simply Palm - again. Pick a lane fellas.
>
> g.
>
> ......................................................................
>
> Grant Hutchinson
> Interface Considerations & Feature Deprecation
>
> Veer
> Visual Elements for Creatives
> http://www.veer.com/
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