Palm rulez, im convinced.

[Fishie]

I bought myself a Clie personal entertainment organiser today.
Never owned a Palm device before.
I blame this site.

[Weyoun6]

I used to be a palm owner too.... until I read a local anti-M$ "M$-can-never-do-anything-right" magazine say that PocketPC beat hands down Palm OS.

A CLIE is simply a Palm that is trying to be a PPC with a series of workarounds that the OS was not orignally designed for.

[Jhokur2k]

I've always had two palms... just never could get the data to stay on them for long. :twisted:

[Fishie]

I like it so far.

[Hyperluminal]

Well, which one did you buy?

[Fishie]

Clie T 425.
It was only 199€ (in comparison the Zire costs 121€ over here) so I tought hey why not.
Palm OS 4.1 and has the Sony consumer level Remote control software with it.
Playing around with it I really wanted Sony to make a PPC device.
The build quality is awesome.

[Sheynk]

he was assimilated!!! :robot:

[Saaby]

April Fools?

[Fishie]

April Fools?

Nope, its true(the Buying a Clie part not the Borg part).

I can see myself getting a nice Palm OS machines when they become available or maybe even the Zire 71, if the Multimedia capabilities would be up to par with PPC machines.
Still prefer PPC tough, but man resolution is really hampering it IMO, especially considering the 3.8 inch full VGA screens I saw on CE.net machines in Japan.

[Macguy59]

Having purchased a Tungsten T last month, I can say that the fonts on this device and the Clie' series are MUCH better then on any PPC. 320x320 is the way to go. PPC have to drop the half VGA spec. It sucks for fonts. Frankly I would buy one of the Sony NX series, except for the damn memory stick. I really hope that workaround for regular CF cards ends up being a competent solution.

[Weyoun6]

I will never understand people that claim that pixel doubling equals higher resolution. QVGA Makes since from a compatibilty standpoint.

[Fishie]

Urm when you have 2 apples and then you get another 2 apples you will have 4 apples wich is more then 2 apples.

PS if you double the horizontal and vertical lines on a device you end up with 4 times as many pixels, thus four times the resolution.

[JvanEkris]

But to keep it backwards compatible, you make te pixels not 1x1, but 2x2 large, basically making it a larger lo-quality bitmap on a high res screen :(

Jaap

[Fishie]

But to keep it backwards compatible, you make te pixels not 1x1, but 2x2 large, basically making it a larger lo-quality bitmap on a high res screen :(

Jaap

Urm no, everything just appears smaller, same as with standard icons used on high res CE machines(like the intermec)