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  1. Re:Mayeb Not a Bad Thing? by Rogerborg · · Score: 1 · on The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues

    I would argue that the iPad UX is the most innovative

    Innovative? Well, OK. I'm sure it's purely co-incidental that the chap who led development of it bungied briefly into Picsel Technologies in the early 2000s, said "Oh, you're selling a unified multimedia 'UX', mostly to Far East markets that North Americans will never have heard of, how interesting...[scribble scribble]... well, I'm off to Apple now, kthnxbye".

  2. Oh, you mean in North America? by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Mozilla Is Eyeing Your Phone

    I hate to pop the Anglocentric bubble, but Access Netfront and Picsel Browser have the Far East and Asian markets (carrier and OEMs) stitched up between them. North America and Europe are already fairly small markets in comparison, and the segment of users who can and will install a 3rd party browser is pretty much you, me, and Bob over there.

  3. Heheheh. 64MB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mozilla's Mini-Me

    Wake me up when they can fit a full browser that also does .doc, .xls, .pdf, text and Flash into 1.5MB. Heh, "mini". Good one.

  4. Re:What are you willing to spend? by sh00z · · Score: 1 · on Best PDA To Read e-Texts On?
    You cannot open the same PDF directly on a palm that you would open on a desktop.
    You can with Picsel Viewer. However, it has absolutely no text search function, so it's useless for technical references. Probably great for ebooks.

    I have no idea how much it costs; it was preloaded on my Sony TH55.

  5. Re:Just buy a laptop by gborland · · Score: 1 · on NEC Develops Linux Tablet/PDA Hybrid

    Picsel Technologies are actually Scottish, not English.

  6. I would agree with you, except... by Angostura · · Score: 1 · on Barnes and Noble Drops Ebooks
    I'm an avid reader, and read aa lot of books on the Tube (London metro) on the way to work. Conventional newspapers are impossible read while strap-hanging and books are difficult (you have to let go to the strap to turn the page and you are usually propelled into someone's lap). However I read several public domain texts on my old Palm V and it really is the most practical medium.

    As for smalI screen sizes - suspect that once this type of technology catches on.

  7. Yawn by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Informative · on Peephole Displays

    Extra hardware, extra cost, extra annoyance value.

    There's a practical retail solution already, see Picsel, now shipping on Sony Clie's. Every document is displayed the same way, as a draggable, freely zoomable image, done with intuitive (touch-drag, tap-touch-drag) stylus commands.

    Other nice stuff: it's cross platform (PalmOS, Symbian, WinCE, Linux, easy to port to just about anything else), and ~1.5Mb in size, which includes a web browser, file viewer, and viewers for .doc, excel, pdf, rich text and text. The only annoyance value is having to toggle between free view and input modes, but a tilting device would need a toggle or press lock anyway.