PDA Question
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What sort of experiences have people had using Mobile Windows and a PDA for viewing web pages. For instance, could you happily read the NY Times editorial page or the CP lounge on one of those screens? I am thinking about picking up one with built in wireless, just want to make sure it is not pointless first. Thanks. Ed Atwell
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What sort of experiences have people had using Mobile Windows and a PDA for viewing web pages. For instance, could you happily read the NY Times editorial page or the CP lounge on one of those screens? I am thinking about picking up one with built in wireless, just want to make sure it is not pointless first. Thanks. Ed Atwell
Without ever having used one, I would make the supposition that while it would feel extremely exciting and cool the first couple of hours, continued browsing of any decent web site on a PDA would be horribly painful. There are possible exceptions though – for example a PDA-optimized live-scores web site for cricket, football, tennis etc. would be quite useful if you have no other means to access the info. Nish
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What sort of experiences have people had using Mobile Windows and a PDA for viewing web pages. For instance, could you happily read the NY Times editorial page or the CP lounge on one of those screens? I am thinking about picking up one with built in wireless, just want to make sure it is not pointless first. Thanks. Ed Atwell
What Nish said. :) Now my $0.02: A while ago I had a PDA (Acer n10) with wireless, which I loved, but browsing (mostly CP) was an *incredible* pain. Complicated pages (the CP lounge too, evidently) took really long to load, even via 2mbit ADSL. Almost all the sites I visited didn't have PDA optimized versions, so pretty much all sites felt like I was looking through a keyhole. Nevertheless they are ultimately cool devices, like for using for email on the go (I did this), an organizer (hey, that's what it's meant for ;P), and of course a portable MP3 player. With an SD expansion card (or CF, but I didn't do that as I had a CF wireless card) you've got plenty space for MP3s, and I found the battery life satisfactory (about 5-7 hours continuous playing with mine). So depending on what you want to do, I think they're really cool and probably worth it, except I don't like that they're so incredibly expensive for what they are (or at least it feels that way) Paul ;)
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What Nish said. :) Now my $0.02: A while ago I had a PDA (Acer n10) with wireless, which I loved, but browsing (mostly CP) was an *incredible* pain. Complicated pages (the CP lounge too, evidently) took really long to load, even via 2mbit ADSL. Almost all the sites I visited didn't have PDA optimized versions, so pretty much all sites felt like I was looking through a keyhole. Nevertheless they are ultimately cool devices, like for using for email on the go (I did this), an organizer (hey, that's what it's meant for ;P), and of course a portable MP3 player. With an SD expansion card (or CF, but I didn't do that as I had a CF wireless card) you've got plenty space for MP3s, and I found the battery life satisfactory (about 5-7 hours continuous playing with mine). So depending on what you want to do, I think they're really cool and probably worth it, except I don't like that they're so incredibly expensive for what they are (or at least it feels that way) Paul ;)
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
Thats what I figured, painful. I appreciate the feedback. Thanks Ed Atwell