05-02-2004, 06:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Review: Playskool Magic Screen Palm Size Learner
http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=2030
"If you thought palmOne owned the entry-level PDA market with their Zire line watch out for this latest effort from Playskool. While not the most functional PDA on the market, it�s hard to argue with price. Playskool is working for volume with their Magic Screen PDA. At a price of only $12, they could quickly surpass the 3 million Zires sold by palmOne."
Hmmm... I wonder if this multitasks? :wink: :lol:
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05-02-2004, 06:05 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
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VERY funny review!! My favorite part of this PDA has got to be the 12x12 / 1-bit screen. Absolutely priceless!
Thanks for sharing!!
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05-02-2004, 06:09 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I think the Magic Screen will flop. Try putting that thing in your pocket! Oh, and what's up with the curvy screen? It's like they put a CRT inside the PDA!
There is one thing that I do like... the stylus that's attached to the PDA! Oh, and the 12 by 12 pixel screen is amazing! :lol:
Hahahaha.. it's funny seeing this on a Pocket PC web site. 
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05-02-2004, 06:12 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by zkmusa
I think the Magic Screen will flop. Try putting that thing in your pocket!
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Yeah... but at $12 combined with its intuitively simple interface, who can complain?? Companies wouldn't even have to provide IT support for this (well... at least they shouldn't HAVE to).
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05-02-2004, 06:45 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Re: Review: Playskool Magic Screen Palm Size Learner
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=2030
"If you thought palmOne owned the entry-level PDA market with their Zire line watch out for this latest effort from Playskool. While not the most functional PDA on the market, it�s hard to argue with price. Playskool is working for volume with their Magic Screen PDA. At a price of only $12, they could quickly surpass the 3 million Zires sold by palmOne."
Hmmm... I wonder if this multitasks? :wink: :lol:
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Unfortunately no, but the word on the street (just don't quote me) is that Microsoft is in discussions with Fisher-Price, Bandai, V-Tech, and APEX to produce a competing product that will.
It will feature a higher-res 24by32 pixel 2-bit display, full Outlook integration, and four bundled apps called MS Words, MS Numbers, MS Colors, and MS Sounds. In a nod towards Apple design sense, the still-unnamed product line will feature a highly simplified backlighted keyboard with twelve keys.
Pricing is undetermined but is expected to be competitively-priced.
The first units are expected in time for christmas.
At least one source thinks the finished product will be called the MS SmartTOT, for tech-oriented-toy, but the no final decision has been made yet.
The inhouse code-name for this top secret project is Merlyn.
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05-02-2004, 06:49 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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With a baby due in June, this would be a nice way to say, " You are going to be just like your daddy!"
:lol:
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05-02-2004, 07:06 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
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That is indeed a funny review, impossible to read without laughing. When my daughter was small and I still used my Psion (or was it Casio BOSS back then?) I would have bought her one for sure.
Now she's ten, I could have saved some money getting her one of these instead of her Toshiba PPC. Oh well :lol:
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05-02-2004, 07:07 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
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im dumping my zodiac1 for this. lol.  :lol:
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05-02-2004, 07:25 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Re: Review: Playskool Magic Screen Palm Size Learner
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Originally Posted by Felix Torres
It will feature a higher-res 24by32 pixel 2-bit display, full Outlook integration, and four bundled apps called MS Words, MS Numbers, MS Colors, and MS Sounds. In a nod towards Apple design sense, the still-unnamed product line will feature a highly simplified backlighted keyboard with twelve keys.
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:rotfl: No mention of the X button??? 
--janak
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05-02-2004, 07:42 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 225
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This review read like an April fool's joke! :lol: I loved the remark about Documents To Go! :wink:
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