PDA's -> UMPC's
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THe one John linked to is about the size of a paperback book, a form factor I've been wanting for years. Now if they could just get the price down.
-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.
They are definitely heading in the right direction, but the prices are going to bea little high for a while yet, I suspect. The PDA I use is this one[^]. It's significantly smaller than a paperback (it's only just bigger than my purse) and has the advantage that it's a navigation device as well. It works for me, at least. No more waiting for the laptop to boot up to check my calendar or take a note...and it synchronises to the laptop so I can stil do that if I want to. :)
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They are definitely heading in the right direction, but the prices are going to bea little high for a while yet, I suspect. The PDA I use is this one[^]. It's significantly smaller than a paperback (it's only just bigger than my purse) and has the advantage that it's a navigation device as well. It works for me, at least. No more waiting for the laptop to boot up to check my calendar or take a note...and it synchronises to the laptop so I can stil do that if I want to. :)
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
One of the things I'd want to be able to do would be read books on it. A 3.5" 320x240 screen is just too small for that use, only 20% of the size of a paperback page. Assuming it had a pixel density high enough to keep the text size the same, at the speed I read I'd be hitting the next screen button every 10 seconds. In practice it would be worse, the sony ebook reader is 170DPI vs 110 for your PDA and can't quite manage a font as small as a print book uses.
-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.