Comments on: My Next PDA

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 06:36:20 +0000

I personally had high hopes for the danger sidekick but I ended up with a useless hockey puck that sucks as a phone and leaves a lot to be desired as a pda. The basic ability to synch your data with your pc is not there and they still seem to be figuring out how to allow you to write much less install applications for the thing. It was a year late in arriving and it my opinion it still hasn't arrived. But I could go on for days on the subject. Oh well on to the next frankestein creation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:38:37 +0000

Chris – go to http://www.brighthand.com and you will find that Hitachi and Samsung are listening to you. No wireless yet, but you get the keyboard and camera at least.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:03:18 +0000

I'm literally throwing away my pocket pc because it's broken, again, past its warranty this time. My tastes are very simple, all I need is for all the features to work. I'm shifting my focus to technology that is “fully baked.” The dick tracy thing is too hard for engineers, too hard to maintain, and involves a new purchase every year anyway.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:07:10 +0000

http://www.royville.com/mt/archives/000161.php I just blogged about this too! LOL

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:22:00 +0000

Why not add a GPS locator while you're at it, Chris? :) Then you could automatically log the location of those open hot spots.
The Sony Ericsson P800 is coming close minus the Wi-Fi and keyboard – and of course it has the Sony memory schtick instead of a REAL memory card.
As a lot of the other posts are indicating, we are getting to a real paradox point between something that is really small and portable and yet has everything a user wants including a keyboard and a decent sized screen.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out – where the technology ends up converging and diverging.
Those flexible, pull-out screens like in the movie Red Planet might be part of an answer. After that – implants? Can't wait to have to apply regular patches to my body firmware. :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:21:18 +0000

Basically Chris wants one of these:
http://www.swissarmy.com/webstore/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=2155&category=39
in a PDA. Soon, somebody will get it right.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:33:58 +0000

You should look at the Sharp Zaurus. It's got everything you listed up to Bluetooth. There's no CF card for that yet, I don't believe. It doesn't have a built in camera, but there is a CF one you can get. Otherwise, it's got everything else.
I first read about it in your own Lockergnome Linux e-mail! I love mine!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:57:52 +0000

I hear ya on that! i dont know about the built in camera thing. i thought the Tungsten C was gonna be my next PDA. the fact it has no built in mic really turned me off (i would like to record memos n such) and the fact that the Tungsten T has bluetooth and the C doesnt, thats just obsurd.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:28:19 +0000

one other thing, in my opinion pocket pc sucks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:25:25 +0000

I love my Tungsten C with built in wi-fi and SD card slot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:19:08 +0000

Yeah, Rory, I've seen the hybrids. I tried to like them but I just don't. Almost all of them are way too bulky. (As small as regular cell phones are these days, the hybrid must feel like you're talking on a TV remote control or something.) I'm sure there are folks out there making good use of PDA's, but everything I personally would use a PDA for is better served in other ways. As for someone successfully executing a PDA with the features Chris is looking for, I'm sure Apple is the only company that could pull it off (well) and they've voiced their lack of interest in PDA/tablets, etc. Contrary to what the geeks may think, there just ain't that much interest.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:44:10 +0000

Well I just bought a Palm a week ago, and if anyone can recommend some good sites with free software or anything else cool about PDA's…Let me know. thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:37:10 +0000

I'm still waiting to be able to buy a couple of new droids from Jawas in a Sandcrawler to help with my moisture farm…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:47:25 +0000

I not sure I see the importance of 'built-in'. All the functions required can be done with the Zaurus Â– you only have to swap a CF card. Since SD is supported as well, you use that (and the internal storage) for your data. In fact (if I remember correctly) there's bluetooth support that plugs into the 'sync' data port, so you would only have to swap out the CF camera and the CF wireless card. Unless you can live with just the internal storage Â– then you could put a SD wireless card in and have all three (bluetooth, wireless, camera) at the same time. I see this as a viable solution Â– but perhaps I am missing something?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:40:05 +0000

http://www.handspring.com/treo600/index.jhtml OK, It's Palm based, and I'm not sure about Bluetooth (does SD but not CF), but hey it's a phone too!