11-21-2002, 11:32 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 129
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Originally Posted by Venturello
The website does say:
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF Viewers..... you'll have to make up your mind what they mean:
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and (PDF Viewers)
Word, Excel, (Powerpoint and PDF Viewers)
Word, (Excel, Powerpoint and PDF Viewers)
(Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF Viewers)
And given the clues... your experience dbrahms... Samsung gave us beautiful hardware (IMHO) with crippled OS....
Heh, got my 10 minutes of geek paradise at least!!  ops: |
In Samsung's defense...the OS didnt look 100% finished. Looked as if logos and such were missing from the applications when launched. Who knows...I'm sure they will release this will apps that have AT LEAST the same functionality of PPC apps |
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11-21-2002, 11:33 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 129
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Originally Posted by Xaximus
Personally, this is where I'd like to see PDAs going. The bigger, higher resolution display makes me drool  . It's a shame it's so darned hard to read or look at as some say. And the fold-down cover/keyboard combo, very nice. It's probably not something I'd buy, especially at that price, but it's a good step forward I think. |
Price?? this unit will retail for $600 USD...that's less than my ipaq 3975. But remember, this isnt as portable / pocket-friendly as the pocket pc's |
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11-21-2002, 11:58 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 8
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dont' worry i have big pocket
Don't worry dbrahms about the screen, i worked on a 15inch screen 8 hours a day with a resolution of 1600x1200 with a font of 8 dpi. I will be able to sustain this screen for 1 or two hours.
As for the size, the ipaq is not that much smaller than this and it will fit in my pocket perfectly. This is it Ladie & Gentlemen, the pda of the future. Just wait and see.  |
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11-22-2002, 12:01 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 13
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Similar to Bsquare's reference device
This is one of those devices that tries to differentiate from a Pocket PC but can't leverage the benefits of the PPC OS. Yes, it's WCE 3.0 sw but since PPC OS doesn't support resolutions beyond 320x240, devices like these can't use the software. Hence, the fallback to 3.0 with it's pros and cons.
One benefit is the display of a full web page with no scrolling and no modifications. The downside is getting developers to port their software to these resolutions. Without MS involvement, it's tough.
KeithA
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11-22-2002, 12:10 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 58
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Originally Posted by dbrahms
Price?? this unit will retail for $600 USD...that's less than my ipaq 3975. But remember, this isnt as portable / pocket-friendly as the pocket pc's
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It's not relatively expensive given the price of high-end PDAs, sure, but it's still too much for my own personal liking. |
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11-22-2002, 12:23 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 743
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The resolution is good enough for DVD-quality playback!
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11-22-2002, 12:42 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,499
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Re: Sure...
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GREAT thanks dude, oooooooooh yeah, daddy needs a new toy. |
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11-22-2002, 12:45 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 15
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That's a heck of a lot of pixels for a 206 mhz processor to push. To be precise, it contains 5 times the number of pixels as a Pocket PC. After having worked extensively on GUI-intensive apps like DEXplor, as well as Pocket PC games, I would wonder how responsive scrolling and the like would be on that hardware. As for gaming, I really don't see how any real-time game could begin to make use of that many pixels with the given processing power.
Dan East
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11-22-2002, 12:49 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 15
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The resolution is good enough for DVD-quality playback!
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Again, it's absolutely laughable to believe that a 206 mhz device could do full motion video at 800x480. I doubt it could even decode a 320x240 video and do a simple stretch to fill 800x480 real-time.
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11-22-2002, 03:05 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 46
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Originally Posted by Dan East
That's a heck of a lot of pixels for a 206 mhz processor to push. To be precise, it contains 5 times the number of pixels as a Pocket PC. After having worked extensively on GUI-intensive apps like DEXplor, as well as Pocket PC games, I would wonder how responsive scrolling and the like would be on that hardware. As for gaming, I really don't see how any real-time game could begin to make use of that many pixels with the given processing power.
Dan East
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How old are you??? I remember days when we had 468DX-66 Mhz, and that was runnig win95 at 800x600 very well. Then came P(I)-100Mhz and S3 video cards and everything was blazingly fast. On PI-166 we were playing Duke Nukem 3D (a first-person shooter game) at 640x480 and that did not skip a bit. |
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