Quickies: Sony NX-70V, PPC to Palm, Worms , NFL and SnapperMail
The Clie Users Club in Japan have posted some excellent pictures of the Sony CLIE NX-70V and the new accessories. -Brooks
Back2Palm is a website made by a former Pocket PC user, that switched back to the Palm OS. It is an informative site, and has some head to head comparissons of the Palm OS to PPC. -Roman Pedan
Hexacto's version of Worms World Party may not be the only worms game in town. Paragon Software is showing some screenshots of a worms clone, called Global Worming, in development.
Toysoft Inc. is pleased to announce the release of mySchedule NFL 2002 v1.8. mySchedule NFL 2002 is the ultimate scheduler for the National Football League 2002 season. mySchedule includes all 32 team's preseason and regular schedules, TV and DirecTV listings, AFC and NFC standings, all 32 team rosters and AFC team roster pictures. In addition mySchedule includes 2002 alignment, NFL All-time standings, detailed Quarterbacks, receivers, rushers and kicker stats. Weekly NFL scoring, score summaries, game day matchups and vegas style betting odds. mySchedule is compatible with PalmOS 3.0 and higher. -PR
SnapperMail is a new Palm OS email client. It is the first Palm OS email client to handle desktop format attachments natively. It is also the first email application designed specifically for smart phone operation in mind by offering FingerNav(TM) mode which allow navigation of messages with finger input. Among other features, it supports unlimited filesizes for message body and attachments, full Memory Card support including full directory tree browsing and a elegant and easy to use interface. -PR
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RE: NX looks vs. NR looks
Are there any differences in the keyboard, buttons, screen, etc?
RE: NX looks vs. NR looks
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disappointed with both of them
PocketPCs have mediocre screens and an operating system that isn't well adapted to handhelds.
For basic PDA functions, Palm handhelds are still by far the best handhelds out there, but given the limited hardware and software they used, they are way overpriced. If the handheld market were competitive, they'd be drive out of business by $50 alternatives. But nobody who isn't Palm compatible can get a foot down.
Where does that leave us? We need more alternatives. Let's hope Psion will re-enter the market, and let's hope there will be more Linux-based PDAs.
RE: disappointed with both of them
RE: disappointed with both of them
Tradeoffs. There's only so many clock cycles to go around, particularly on a mobile system. Do we write the OS so that it is infintely expandable (And therefore contains a LOT of not-totally-necessary code), or do we write it so that it runs fast?
I don't think it's a case of the PalmOS 'Making it hard on vendors', it's a case of Palm looking at reality, and saying 'This is our target platform - Give us the best performance possible.' That means they diden't build in OS support for oversized color screens, garage door openers or MP3 players. It only supports what it was designed for.
If they wanted to 'Make it hard' on people, they could do stuff like Apple does, dumping most of it's internals under an NDA and force everone to code to their specs.
Instead they publish most of what they've done and all of the relevant interfaces, and provide support for third parties who want to work on it. Heck, they even take the third parties' contributions, standardize them and intergrate them into the OS sometimes. Hardly 'Making it hard', I'd say.
...they are way overpriced. If the handheld market were competitive, they'd be drive out of business by $50 alternatives.
There are, what, five or six companies making PalmOS PDA's? Seems like plenty of competition to me.
But nobody who isn't Palm compatible can get a foot down.
Not for lack of trying... The ones I can think of off the top of my head are the DaVinci(Royal), the Rex(Rolodex?), the eBookman(Franklin), and a few others that I can remember without actually recalling the names. That one with the pastel metallic cases and the voice recorder, for example.
I think that if somebody could come up with something cheaper, that worked better, they would have done it already - there's been plenty of attempts.
Oh, if you don't care about input methods, and are only using the thing as a datebook/Calculator, there's lots of stuff in the Sub-$50 market. Try mini-pda.com 's offering - For $12, it really IS kinda nice. Phone/email book, Alarm clock, datebook, games, beaming, syncs from a computer database, even lets you download personalization screens.
But it's not going to replace my ex-gf's m100, much less my HE330, anytime soon.
RE: disappointed with both of them
I don't like the size of the NX series or the battery life. My NR-70 does just fine and could have benefited with a modem sled like the older models and a larger battery. A second MS slot would be far more advantageous than a bulky, crippled CF slot.
Price Cut on T665C
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RE: Price Cut on T665C
Now that I'll buy a 665, anybody want to buy a used N760C cheap? ;-)
RE: Price Cut on T665C
Also on a sidenote, I've noticed the headphone jack doesn't have that extra rectangular part (not sure the technical name, but its used by the control wand). While this may not be an issue for you, I'd really miss using the control wand, as I use the mp3 player function everyday.
This is just my opinion, but I'd wait to see how the battery life on whatever T-series form factor OS5 device Sony comes out with next.
RE: Price Cut on T665C
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I acknowledge the lower battery life as compared to my N760C, but the T665C's faster CPU and double RAM (and better IR) more than make up for that for me (I don't use the MP3 feature currently). Hint: doubling the CPU speed makes each chess program about 70 points stronger, which means a lot to a chess freak like me. :-)
Re: Palm Low-Cost Handheld Takes Aim at Scrap Paper
Palm CFO Judy Bruner: "This product was designed from the ground up to be very profitable at a low price."
Current gross margins on Palm products currently average around 31 percent.
RE: Re: Palm Low-Cost Handheld Takes Aim at Scrap Paper
Who would buy a SJ-20 at $200 if it only gives you 8MB RAM and no MS slot? The market determines the price, not the manufacturer. Who can say that Palm's units right now are not overpriced than any other models on the market (at least from the contents of the hardware)?
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RE: Re: Palm Low-Cost Handheld Takes Aim at Scrap Paper
My NR-70 is unrecognizable from it's out-of-the-box state with YiShow, PowerJog, and a ton of hacks that are used through X-master. I suppose Palm expects the beginner to get a 'taste' of the Palm and then want to upgrade to be able to do more with hacks/programs. Don't know if that will entice or turn-off the newbie PDA user.
RE: Re: Palm Low-Cost Handheld Takes Aim at Scrap Paper
Nice OS comparison
RE: Nice OS comparison
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RE: Nice OS comparison
1. I couldn't stand the anonymous flaming, most of the time without any reason. They even flamed at people who didn't have English as their native language....and therefore made mistakes...like me:-)
2. A non-palm-opinion made you a troll, no matter how objective your opinion was. They never bothered to actualy read your post. "a troll is a troll and you never read posts of troll's"
RE: Nice OS comparison
RE: Nice OS comparison
RE: SnapperMail
RE: SnapperMail
The most impressive thing about apps that support SnapperMail's API is that they all inherit beaming support including files beamed from NON-PALM devices like a laptop or PocketPC. Anyone tried beaming a image from their MMS cellphone into JpegWatch Lite? That's cool.
NX Battery may not be that bad.
"spent over three hours checking out the NX70v unit taking pics, movies, voice recordings, making memos, editing photos, etc!!! More on the unit in an upcoming hands on review!"
From what I can make out, this is without being plugged into the mains and with a Wi-Fi card.
It's only a news brief, but that's the impression given. More when the review comes through I guess.
Check it out at http://www.clieuk.co.uk/index.shtml
If it is not there anymore, it might be in the archive section.
Zuber
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