11-01-2005, 01:30 PM
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Big Review Of iMate JasJar
http://www.pdagold.com/articles/detail.asp?a=257
"The HTC Universal is one of the most eagerly awaited devices of the past few months (and perhaps years) among all fans of pocketsize computers with a Microsoft operating system. Bill Gates himself used this device to present a new version of the OS called Windows Mobile 5, which is "faster, more stable, more intuitive, more sophisticated and user-friendlier" TM than all the previous version combined. This would have wreaked panic among piggybanks had they have access to online tech news. Few had expected that it would take another four months for the threat to materialise when the device eventually hit the shelves."
What is interesting to me is Motorola could have had a lock on this type of device with the MPx. I know this device is large for some of you, but you have to admit the functionality is pretty much unsurpassed by anything else out there, and to all those that lament the passing of the HPC form factor in 2001, this should more than fulfill your desires. :drool:
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11-01-2005, 02:59 PM
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Re: Big Review Of iMate JasJar
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"faster, more stable, more intuitive, more sophisticated and user-friendlier" TM
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Can someone shed some light please. How can you trademark that?
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11-01-2005, 03:22 PM
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From the article:
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However, it is not all praise: there are a few minor issues, too. One of them is the presence of just one SHIFT key (located on the left). If you want to type capital A or Z, you need to reach it with the other hand.
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Not true. Press and release the shift or fn key, then press the key you want. I made the same mistake when I first got mine, but soon figured this out.
The keyboard is definitely more comfortable for thumb rather than finger typing, but I'm pretty sure that's what was intended.
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11-01-2005, 03:25 PM
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Re: Big Review Of iMate JasJar
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Not sure anyone else would want to use 'user-friendlier'. :roll:
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11-01-2005, 08:10 PM
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"faster" ? I've been seeing report after report from users of WM5.0 devices suggesting that overall performance is slightly slower, not faster. Which is it? I know (from a Microsoft reps own blog, for one) that writing to flash ROM is a bunch slower than to RAM or even to CF cards. What's faster?
As for being pretty much everything a lover of the old HPC could want... nah. What about touch typing? I just don't see it with the thumbs. One could, with years of training, become a thumb-only touch typist, just as one can learn to play the violin with the bow clamped between the teeth and the violin moved violently back and forth across the hair... saw that once in a hilarious video, a guy playing 'Flight of the Bumblebee' with a bunch of stuff balanced on his head at the same time. But impractical, generally speaking, isn't it? Unless one wishes to encounter severe tendonitis.
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11-01-2005, 08:27 PM
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Early-Adopteritis is upon me again. This thing has to be better than the Samsung Sch i730. To bad there isn't a CDMA version available. I'd love to try it over the Verizon Network.
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11-01-2005, 10:13 PM
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Re: Big Review Of iMate JasJar
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
to all those that lament the passing of the HPC form factor in 2001, this should more than fulfill your desires.
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I definitely like this device! Or at least what I've seen and read so far.
But to compare it to the HPC is a bit of a stretch in my view. The biggest difference is that I could touchtype on my old Jornada 820. It was more like a mini-laptop than a PDA, at least in form-factor. In fact, it's pretty close in size to my current PC, an HP TC1000 Tablet PC.
To this day I wish there were upgrades available for the 820 to bring it up to modern standards, software-wise. It's still a heckuva little machine.
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11-01-2005, 10:39 PM
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Re: Big Review Of iMate JasJar
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Originally Posted by Perry Reed
But to compare it to the HPC is a bit of a stretch in my view. The biggest difference is that I could touchtype on my old Jornada 820. It was more like a mini-laptop than a PDA, at least in form-factor. In fact, it's pretty close in size to my current PC, an HP TC1000 Tablet PC.
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THe 820 was a strange duck. I used one for a while. When most people think HPC they think of the HP 300, 600 and 700 series, which looks quite similar to the Universal.
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11-01-2005, 10:42 PM
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Re: Big Review Of iMate JasJar
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Originally Posted by Perry Reed
But to compare it to the HPC is a bit of a stretch in my view. The biggest difference is that I could touchtype on my old Jornada 820. It was more like a mini-laptop than a PDA, at least in form-factor. In fact, it's pretty close in size to my current PC, an HP TC1000 Tablet PC.
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THe 820 was a strange duck. I used one for a while. When most people think HPC they think of the HP 300, 600 and 700 series, which looks quite similar to the Universal. |
I used a 300 as well, specifically a 320. And you're right, those smaller models were much closer to the Universal.
Maybe it's just me then that thinks of the 820 and the larger form-factor devices when I think of an HPC. That said, I'd love to see one running WM5...
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11-02-2005, 01:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Don't Panic!
Early-Adopteritis is upon me again. This thing has to be better than the Samsung Sch i730. To bad there isn't a CDMA version available. I'd love to try it over the Verizon Network.
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I own them both and never use the Universal as a phone. It is a great PDA, if a little lacking in the memory and speed department. The i730 is the first converged device I have been comfortably able to use as a phone, though.
I'm typing this on my JasJar connected via bluetooth to my i730's Evdo network-- best of both world for me right now! 
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