[Dave Conger]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

It will just leave me with a smaller screen and no way to navigate the OS. :?

If you just had to open your contact list to get a phone number then it might work out alight. I don't quite understand why they don't just go virtual graffiti. The cool Palm companies are all doing it...

[Dave Conger]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

It will just leave me with a smaller screen and no way to navigate the OS. :?

If you just had to open your contact list to get a phone number then it might work out alight. I don't quite understand why they don't just go virtual graffiti. The cool Palm companies are all doing it...

[Foo Fighter]

Anyone else notice this "thing" is using an M500 series cradle? :?

[entropy1980]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

Anyone else notice this "thing" is using an M500 series cradle? :?

Which reminds me of another crappy Palm feature...actually 2 of them
1. Have to push the button to sync.... yuck this is why I love active sync throw it in the cradle and forget it.

2.It better have USB speed this serial 115k speed majorly sucks and try moving MP3's over it ! Palm better up the cradle speed to true USB at least!!

[LarDude]

The postings on this thread, so far, just demonstrates to me how platform neutral many (most) PPC zealots "really" are. The bias is towards great hardware and OS capabilities, as opposed to some fanatical loyalty to some "religious" zen-like concept.

Regarding the item itself: Good for Palm...and (in the end) Good for PPC. But mostly, good for the rest of us.

[Kirkaiya]

Well, to Foo Fighter (and others) who said it should have a soft-graffitt area instead... I think this is a nice attempt to reduce the size of the unit (when it's collapsed), as opposed to increasing the screen real-estate.

It will like a really wide cellphone-size, i guess. I personally like soft-grafitti areas, but then it wouldn't collapse (since you need access to the buttons/joypad anyway).

I also think the screen is definitely 320x320, and the whole package looks nice.. ya think it's got the ARM 206 MHz in there? I wonder who leaked it, and if it was with a corporate blessing or not (since they asked to remain anonymous, maybe not, but it does seem that this could only help Palm, since Sony already has a "cool" PDA out).

anyway, we'll see.

Kirkaiya

[heov]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

Anyone else notice this "thing" is using an M500 series cradle? :?

Actually, I am glad its a m500 cradle... meaning Palm didn't dump the Universal Connector! All palm cradles are the same now due to the universal connector...

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

If only that were true...the G4 Cube would have been a success instead of a failure.

The G4 Cube was a very innovative device, but they had a lot of engineering issues with it, and the lack of expandability + high prices really hurt it. I would likely buy one in a heartbeat though, if it had Windows XP on it.

[mookie123]

couple of quick observation.

-in such small unit. I doubt it can carry enough battery for CF slot. (Toshiba learn this the hard way)

-no visible side scroll bar. (or any pertruding buttons for that matter, but maybe just the picture angle combined with ultra thin touch buttons)

-speaker is definitely too small.

-how can they reconcile "sledge concept" with the sliding d-pad? CF/PC card sledge would be fairly big and definitely will bump that sliding door. The cradle doesn't seem to support "sledge on while sync either.

-one or two SD slots?

all in all this seems to be a direct competition to E310, instead of the Palm that will squash PPC.

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by pdadave

I don't quite understand why they don't just go virtual graffiti. The cool Palm companies are all doing it...

Only Handera has done it. The Sony NR-70 has a generated SIP, but that is only so the screen can flip 180 degrees. You cannot hid the SIP to gain screen real estate like you can on the Pocket PC. AFAIK, the SIP only goes away for movies or the picture viewer. It is still taking up space for everything else.

[heov]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

Only Handera has done it. The Sony NR-70 has a generated SIP, but that is only so the screen can flip 180 degrees. You cannot hid the SIP to gain screen real estate like you can on the Pocket PC. AFAIK, the SIP only goes away for movies or the picture viewer. It is still taking up space for everything else.

Well, the sony is still better because you can switch to the keyboard without having to sacrifice more screen real estate. Also, I am sure newer program will be able to hide the SIP on the new sony, I mean, its all software...