[Cialug] pocketpc's

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Maybe I'm just old and crochety, but I had color treo 600 and found web
surfing and email to be a rather painful experience on it. In fact it
was almost useless. Small keyboard, small screen, etc.  The display is
hard to read outside, etc.

I guess you could say that you could add the external keyboard and all
the add-ons, but if you count all that in, for the same amount of money
you could buy a cheap laptop and be better off. If you're walking around
on campus, you're probably carrying a book bag, right? Just throw a
cheap laptop in there and be done with it.

If you are carrying a some type of organizer and a cell phone, then the
treo is a good way to combine devices. 

If money is not an issue, I'd buy one of the smaller powerbooks. Besides
being cool, they have a really long battery life and are fairly small
for a laptop. 



On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:14, admin wrote:
> what i want to do with it is daily organizing for school, wireless
> internet(to check email on campus), and gps for when i'm away on
> business/traveling. possibly doing outlines for projects when a full
> computer isn't readily available too.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh More <morej@alliancetechnologies.net>
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:17:30 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] pocketpc's
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 22:47 -0600, admin wrote:
> > > anyone here have experience with palm or pocket pc's? if so, whats
> > some
> > > things to look for in one? i'm looking to get one that has 802.11x
> > > networking, bluetooth, compactflash slot, and can play some mp3s.
> > 
> > I have a Treo 600 that has:
> > phone / internet
> > SD slot
> > mp3 ability
> > camera
> > 
> > The Treo 650 also has bluetooth.
> > 
> > I should be at the meeting tonight, if you want to look at it.
> > 
> > Also, in interesting news, Palm is going to a Linux base, so there
> > is a chance that the next Treo will also have perl and openssh.
> > 
> > -Josh More
> > 
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