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New YOPY Screenshots
FWMiller writes: "Theres a bunch of new screenshots up on Samsung's new PDA, the YOPY. This thing looks really slick, emulating the Windows CE user interface quite closely." The images are in a tgz, and they look real. They demo an addressbook, and MP3 player and other apps that apparently would ship with the nifty Linux based PDA. I still haven't seen a ship date (or an english version of the software for that matter ;) so I'm not holding my breath too hard. Although after playing with Kurt The Pope's Jornada, I'm dying to see what they can do.
The first thing that should pop into anybody's head as soon as they hear this is:
"Who would want to emulate Windows CE's interface?"
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Friends don't let friends misuse the subjunctive.
Palm OS developer/Handspring founder Jeff Hawkins's "Zen of Palm" (essentially, simplify as much as possible for a palmtop unit) really holds true with current hardware limitations.
Now, if you could give me something the size of a Palm V, with the Fitaly stamp keyboard instead of Graffiti or handwriting recogninition (plus an optional folding full-size StowAway keyboard), expansion as easy and versatile as Handspring's Springboard but as small as Sony's Memory Stick, a high-quality color display for large resolutions, built-in wireless connectivity, and long-lasting rechargable batteries...well, then you'd really have a amazingly powerful, functional palm device. Deliver it at a reasonable price point and the world will beat a path to your door.
But it looks like Samsung is taking a big step in the race for the ultimate PDA.
http://www.pdabuzz.com/Features/Yopy.html Seems to be the new pics. (not sure, since my download is crawling)
Check out Microwindows. If you need an interface for an application which may run on a Linux PDA, you are likely to use this little beauty. Plus anyone who thinks that X is awful should take note. By developing things using Microwindows you can get applications - today - that run under X and also can run with a far lighter windowing interface...
Cheers,
Ben
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Smoking Joe,
The hallowed and supa-1337 trolls of slashdot have embraced me. Yea verily spiralx has clasped me to his manly bosom and let me suckle at the teat of trolldom. There is great rejoicing in shoeboy land and a major party in my pants.
Your young apprentice,
--Shoeboy
Actually, there have been some wonderful editorials on this topic in the NYTimes print edition, although I am unable to find any of them (anyone know of an editorial index online?) at the moment.
The gist is, as we allow technology into our lives, we have to make it slave to us, not enslave ourselves to it. Luddites complain that cellphones keep us apart and remote while techno-enthusiasts claim it brings us together. My arkansas mother claims she talks more in email with her remote family now that she did on the phone in a year, while a fellow LUG officer I know turns his pager off the minute he leaves work because it stresses him out to be "too-connected". The truth is that tech can do both, enslave us or serve us, and it's all in the amount of control that you have technology to have in your life. Do you feel ABSOLUTELY COMPELLED to answer a ringing phone? It is in _your_ home, for _your_ convenience, and if you are busy, then let it ring and lose the stress. If you're in class, TURN YOUR FRIGGIN CELL PHONE OFF unless you just happen to be part of the 1% of the population that absolutely HAS to be reachable 24/7, and in that case, use the vibrate feature that almost all of them come with now.
tech is what you make of it, like many other things...
Check my Go-related blog for beginners: DGD