Re: [NTLK] Newton is dead, long live Newton.

On 1/13/2007 2:09 AM, Ed Kummel wrote:
> Has nobody said anything about the complete lack of newton intelligence in this iphone (tm?) thing? What makes the Newton a Personal device is it's intelligence. I know I espoused this point in the past, but I think that whenever you attempt to compare the Newton against any other device, you can't ignore the thing that makes the Newton the best PDA on the market.
> I own a blackberry and love that it converges so many things...but something happened today that made me really think about how I use technological gadgets.
> Today I left home without my blackberry...and you konw what? I barely noticed it wsa missing! The same can not be said about my Newt...I can't remember a day where I did not have my Newton by my side...And why is that? It's because using my BB, I have to scroll through a half a dozen rows of unidentifiable icons just to play solitare....or dial a phone number (yeah, I kjnow about shortcut keys, but I use a special home page that doesn't allow the use of shortcut keys. In other words, the bb isn't the easiest thing to use.
> I have used a bunch of PDA devices, including phones and such...and they all have the same thing in common...they either try to port a desktop os to a portable device with little reference to the fact that you're portable...or they completly iconize things to the point where you have no idea what the heck you're supposed to tap on. The Newton, while quite iconized, allows the newton to be used in a way where the applications are aware of other application's data...thereby not needint you to use two applications to get things done..
> This is what makes the Newton intelligent...
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
> Download Newton packages directly onto your Newton: http://newton.tek-ed.com
>
Very true Ed. It is the OS/interface that makes the Newt special. I
find that for what I want the screen on phones is just too small for a
PDA. Not to mention the interface *shudder*. It would be nice if Apple
would wake up to that fact and actually create a PDA rather than try to
squeeze something into the phone. Oh I am sure the interface will be
"apple like" and well designed, but for a PDA I just don't see how
something the size of a phone is going to work.

Personally I would rather have something the size of a PDA (say 2x00)
with the ability to use a wireless headset to make phone calls with (and
be able to use any phone service I want). Perhaps this small headset
could slide into a port like the pen does. It seems to me that this
could be done and would satisfy the needs of everyone. Except for the
people that want a smaller device that only stores data (from the
desktop) and makes phone calls. And for those people you have the
"phone/data only" model.

-Dan

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